Mankind quotes

With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.

The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in some of the realm – not all – that religion used to fill.

Surely the wake left behind by mankind’s forward march reveals its movement just as clearly as the spray thrown up elsewhere by the prow.

Religion, born of the earth’s need for the disclosing of a god, is related to and co-extensive with not the individual man, but the whole of mankind.

The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.

Mankind, the spirit of the earth, the synthesis of individuals and peoples, the paradoxical conciliation of the element with the whole, and of unity with multitude – all these are called Utopian, and yet they are biologically necessary.

Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

What, man, defy the devil. Consider, he’s an enemy to mankind.

What important is man should live in righteousness, in natural love for mankind.

I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.

It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.

All mankind love a lover.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

General consultant to mankind.

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

Opposite to godliness is atheism in profession, and idolatry in practice. Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind, that it never had many professors.

Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.

Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.

The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.

If atomic bombs are to be added as new weapons to the arsenals of a warring world, or to the arsenals of nations preparing for war, then the time will come when mankind will curse the names of Los Alamos and of Hiroshima.

Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants.

The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.

It’s time to commit to finding the answer, to search for life beyond Earth. Mankind has a deep need to explore, to learn, to know. We also happen to be sociable creatures. It is important for us to know if we are alone in the dark.

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

The greatest tragedy in mankind’s entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.

I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Humor is mankind’s greatest blessing.

This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: ‚War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.‘

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

The proper study of Mankind is Man.

Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.

The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay.

We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?

Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.