Mankind Quotes
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The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states - Israel, Athens, Florence, Elizabethan England. (Quote by - Dean William R. Inge)
What after all has maintained the human race on this old globe, despite all the calamities of nature and all the tragic failings of mankind, if not the faith in new possibilities and the courage to advocate them?. (Quote by - Jane Adams)
Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason. (Quote by - Samuel Adams)
Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. (Quote by - John Donne)
The power of habit and the charm of novelty are the two adverse forces which explain the follies of mankind. (Quote by - Comtesse Diane)
If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago. (Quote by - William Hazlitt)
Mankind's greatest gift... is that we have free choice. (Quote by - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross)
Neither in the life of the individual nor in that of mankind is it desirable to know the future. (Quote by - Jakob Burckhardt)
The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion. (Quote by - Thomas Paine)
Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
It is the true nature of mankind to learn from mistakes, not from example. (Quote by - Fred Hoyle)
That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. (Quote by - Neil Armstrong)
He who surpasses or subdues mankind must look down on the hate of those below. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. (Quote by - Mahatma Gandhi)
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)
There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second. (Quote by - Logan Pearsall Smith)
Know then thyself, presume not God to scan: The proper study of mankind is man. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
The most acute social priority is for individuals to clean up their own mental and emotional messes. (Quote by - Doc Childre)
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. (Quote by - Edward Gibbon)
I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica as now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes)
To deny our own impulses is to deny the very thing that makes us human. (Quote by - Andy and Larry Wachowski)
We should expect the best and the worst from mankind, as from the weather. (Quote by - Vauvenargues)
From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned. (Quote by - Immanuel Kant)
A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
Politics, and the fate of mankind, are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness. (Quote by - Albert Camus)
The precept, "Know yourself," was not solely intended to obviate the pride of mankind; but likewise that we might understand our own worth. (Quote by - Cicero)
All mankind's unhappiness derives from one thing: his inability to know how to remain in repose in one room. (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)
Emotion has taught mankind to reason. (Quote by - Marquis de Vauvenargues)
I never weary of great churches. It is my favourite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral. (Quote by - Robert Louis Stevenson)
Hope is one of the principal springs that keep mankind in motion. (Quote by - Thomas Fuller)
A good writer is basically a story-teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind. (Quote by - Isaac Bashevis Singer)
The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them. (Quote by - Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind. (Quote by - Frank Moore Colby)
Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half of the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room. (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)
To mankind in general Macbeth and Lady Macbeth stand out as the supreme type of all that a host and hostess should not be. (Quote by - Max Beerbohm)
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
It is easier to know mankind in general than man individually. (Quote by - La Rochefoucauld)
Music is the universal language of mankind. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity. (Quote by - Andre Gide)
Ambition, old as mankind, the immemorial weakness of the strong. (Quote by - Vita Sackville-West)
Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness, it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind. (Quote by - John Stuart Mill)
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. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
Do not commit the error, common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed. (Quote by - Jan de Hartog)
All mankind love a lover. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
The best reason why monarchy is a strong government is that it is an intelligible government: the mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other. (Quote by - Walter Bagehot)
Knowledge of mankind is a knowledge of their passions. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)
The individual succumbs, but he does not die if he has left something to mankind. (Quote by - Will Durant)
I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
Nationalism is an infantile diease, the measles of mankind. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
Commerce links all mankind in one common brotherhood of mutual dependence and interests. (Quote by - James A. Garfield)
No true and permanent Fame can be founded except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind. (Quote by - Charles Sumner)
There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread. (Quote by - Mother Teresa)
Fate rules the affairs of mankind with no recognizable order. (Quote by - Seneca)
I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am. (Quote by - Joseph Baretti)
Friendship is the only thing in this world, the usefulness of which all mankind are in agreement. (Quote by - Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Such to me is the new image of aging; growth in self, and service for all mankind. (Quote by - Ethel Percy Andrus)
Mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests. (Quote by - Sir Max Beerbohm)
There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher. (Quote by - Henry Van Dyke)
The beauty of the world and the orderly arrangement of everything celestial makes us confess that there is an excellent and eternal nature, which ought to be worshiped and admired by all mankind. (Quote by - Cicero)
The tiny flame that lights up the human heart is like a blazing torch that comes down from heaven to light up the paths of mankind. For in one soul are contained the hopes and feelings of all Mankind. (Quote by - Kahlil Gibran)
Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
To be a man will continue to demand a heroic heart as long as mankind is not quite human. (Quote by - Julius Fucik)
What boundary ever set limits to the service of mankind. (Quote by - Claudian)
Only the wise possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them. (Quote by - Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Mankind is an unco squad And muckle he may grieve thee. (Quote by - Robert Burns)
An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind. (Quote by - Walter Bagehot)
I know the answer! The answer lies within the heart of all mankind! The answer is twelve? I think I'm in the wrong building. (Quote by - Charles Schulz)
Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
A concern with the perfectibility of mankind is always a symptom of thwarted or perverted development. (Quote by - Hugh Kingsmill)
He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns - you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold!. (Quote by - W. J. Bryan)
Each of us inevitable; Each of us limitless - each of us with his or her right upon the earth; Each of us allowed the eternal purports of the earth; Each of us here as divinely as any is here. (Quote by - Walt Whitman)
Since the general civilization of mankind I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. (Quote by - James Madison)
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally among mankind. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
The best use of a journal is to print the largest practical amount of important truth, - truth which tends to make mankind wiser, and thus happier. (Quote by - Horace Greeley)
While there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; while there is a soul in prision, I am not free. (Quote by - Eugene V Debs)
The interests of childhood and youth are the interests of mankind. (Quote by - Edmund Storer James)
There is only one way to degrade mankind permanently and that is to destroy language. (Quote by - Northrop Frye)
Man is a political animal. (Quote by - Aristotle)
The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
The fates have given mankind a patient soul. (Quote by - Homer)
Our true nationality is mankind. (Quote by - H. G. Wells)
Strike from mankind the principle of faith, and men would have no more history than a flock of sheep. (Quote by - Edward Bulwer-Lytton)
The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow man; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt. (Quote by - Sir Walter Scott)
Things are in the saddle, and ride mankind. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The main task of a free society is to civilize the struggle for power. Slavery of the acquiescent majority to the ruthless few is the hereditary state of mankind; freedom, a rarely acquired characteristic. (Quote by - R. H. S. Crossman)
A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well-being of mankind. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)
An old man concludeth from his knowing mankind that they know him too, and that maketh him very wary. (Quote by - George Saville)
