Quotes on Mankind

The history of mankind is the history of our misunderstandings with god, for he doesn't understand us, and we don't understand him.

Democracy is in the blood of Musalmans, who look upon complete equality of manhood [mankind]…[and] believe in fraternity, equality and liberty.

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

Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.

Ah, why should all mankind For one man's fault, be condemned, If guiltless?

The more I see of Mankind, the more I prefer my dog.

The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda. Perceiving the truth has always been a challenge to mankind, but in the information age (or as I think of it, the disinformation age) it takes on a special urgency and importance.

The angel is free because of his knowledge, the beast because of his ignorance. Between the two remains the son of man to struggle.

He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.

The pioneers and missionaries of religion have been the real cause of more trouble and war than all other classes of mankind.

I have a hundred times heard him say, that all ages and nations have represented their gods as wicked, in a constantly increasing progression; that mankind have gone on adding trait after trait till they reached the most perfect conception of wickedness which the human mind could devise, and have called this God, and prostrated themselves before it.

To get a name can happen but to few. A name, even in the most commercial nation, is one of the few things which cannot be bought . It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.

If the world were a paradise of luxury and ease, a land flowing with milk and honey, where every Jack obtained his Jill at once and without any difficulty, men would either die of boredom or hang themselves; or there would be wars, massacres, and murders; so that in the end mankind would inflict more suffering on itself than it has now to accept at the hands of Nature.

From a long view of the history of mankind, seen from, say, ten thousand years from now, there can be little doubt that the most significant event of the 19th century will be judged as Maxwell's discovery of the laws of electrodynamics. The American Civil War will pale into provincial insignificance in comparison with this important scientific event of the same decade.

And do you know, do you know that mankind can live without the Englishman, it can live without Germany, it can live only too well without the Russian man, it can live without science, without bread, and it only cannot live without beauty, for then there would be nothing at all to do in the world! The whole secret is here, the whole of history is here. Science itself would not stand for a minute without beauty

We all are men, in our own natures frail, and capable of our flesh; few are angels.

The generosity of the Earth allows us to feed all mankind; we know enough about ecology to keep the Earth a healthy place; there is enough room on the Earth, and there are enough materials, so that everybody can have adequate shelter; we are quite competent enough to produce sufficient supplies of necessities so that no one need live in misery.

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

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

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.