History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior.
Vladimir Putin

What is a hero without love for mankind.
Doris Lessing

I think it's wrong the way they criminalize herb. There are many more uses than just smoking. Beneficial to mankind.
Ziggy Marley

Mankind deserves sacrifice - but not of mankind.
Stanislaw Lec

Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.
Robert Green Ingersoll

The histories of mankind are histories only of the higher classes.
Thomas Malthus

One sees a blatant disregard for the precious souls of mankind.
Thomas S. Monson

To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.
Samuel Johnson

I think I did every drug known to mankind, smoked crack, boozed, dropped acid, you name it.
Kid Rock

The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
Arthur C. Clarke

Look at Christ, my dear friend: His life was divine through and through, full of self-denial, and He did everything for mankind, finding His satisfaction and His delight in the dissolution of His material being.
Mikhail Bakunin

A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism.
Irving Babbitt

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

A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.
Umberto Eco

Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.
Umberto Eco

All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
Moliere

I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.
Moliere

There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world.
Karl Popper

A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

In man - in the history of mankind, this has happened many times, and occupation leaders hang on to the land that they're occupying. People fight to liberate their land. But in the end, the people's will is what achieves victory.
Hassan Nasrallah