I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people.
Desiderius Erasmus

By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.
Desiderius Erasmus

No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the people, and what God has given them he gives it for mankind.
Phillips Brooks

No man has come to true greatness who has not felt that his life belongs to his race, and that which God gives to him, He gives him for mankind.
Phillips Brooks

The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind.
George Mason

The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
Alexander Solzehnitsyn

To govern mankind, one must not overrate them.
Lord Chesterfield

The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for all its later surprises.
Daniel J. Boorstin

To mankind in general Macbeth and Lady Macbeth stand out as the supreme type of all that a host and hostess should not be.
Max Beerbohm

One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.
Max Beerbohm

A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong.
Horace

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

The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
Sophocles

Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.
L. Frank Baum

The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.
Ludwig von Mises

If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.
Ludwig von Mises

We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain.
Walter Winchell

A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
Isaac Bashevis Singer

Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising.
Titus Maccius Plautus

Our country is the world - our countrymen are all mankind.
William Lloyd Garrison