Mankind Quotes

All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
Henry Ward Beecher

Except, Climb, Lawful

The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.
Erich Fromm

Power, Danger, Ordinary

The proper study of mankind is books.
Aldous Huxley

Study, Books, Proper

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.
Leonardo da Vinci

Work, God, Quality

A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Angry, Large, Sinners

Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
Victor Hugo

Single, Two, Ideas

If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
E. O. Wilson

Rich, State, Chaos

Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.
Thomas Paine

Religion, Worst, Tyranny

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.
George Orwell

Good, Evil, Hell

The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.
William James

Nature, Power, Human

The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
Bertrand Russell

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

Done, Thought, Books

Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.
Joseph Stalin

Rich, Poor, Between

I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.
John Adams

Design, America, Earth

I love mankind; it's people I can't stand.
Charles M. Schulz

The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.
Og Mandino

Art, End, Person

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.
Bertrand Russell

Age, Religion, Door

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

School, Learn, Example

We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Good, Mean, Manners

For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end.
Hubert H. Humphrey

Time, Power, History

The sexual abuse and exploitation of children is one of the most vicious crimes conceivable, a violation of mankind's most basic duty to protect the innocent.
James T. Walsh

Children, Innocent, Duty

Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other.
Albert Pike

Great, Forget, Suffering

In a World where people are surrounded by darkness, ignorance and fear, it is a sign of hope to be celebrating Islam's message of peace and light, and the last great Messenger, born and chosen to deliver them to all mankind.
Cat Stevens

Peace, Great, Hope

I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.
Walt Whitman

God, Understand, Hear

If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.
Joseph Wood Krutch

God, Destroy, Developers

In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Hope, Gratitude, Secret

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.
Bertrand Russell

Long, Madness, Misery

Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
Samuel Adams

Feelings, Reason, Governed

Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.
Sophocles

Money, Men, Minds

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.'
Immanuel Kant

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