Mankind Quotes

Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.

'Never again' is the rallying cry for all who believe that mankind must speak out against genocide.

It is my earnest hope, and indeed the hope of all mankind, that from this solemn occasion a better world shall emerge out of the blood and carnage of the past...

There is about as much educational benefit to be gained in studying dolphins in captivity as there would be studying mankind by only observing prisoners held in solitary confinement.

Mercy to animals means mercy to mankind.

The fate of the living planet is the most important issue facing mankind.

The desire that guides me in all I do is the desire to harness the forces of nature to the service of mankind.

What do we mean by saying that existence precedes essence? We mean that man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world-and defines himself afterward.

Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.

The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.

In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity.

Freemasonry is an institution calculated to benefit mankind.

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.

Art will remain the most astonishing activity of mankind born out of struggle between wisdom and madness, between dream and reality in our mind.

If mankind were born tomorrow it would divide into groups; each would scramble to invent their one and only god, and set about butchering each-other.

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Since I no longer expect anything from mankind except madness, meanness, and mendacity; egotism, cowardice, and self-delusion, I have stopped being a misanthrope.

Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind.

The parent-child connection is the most powerful mental health intervention known to mankind.

Scientific thought and its creation is the common and shared heritage of mankind.

Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.

The future of mankind lies waiting for those who will come to understand their lives and take up their responsibilities to all living things.

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.

Listen to no one's advice except that of the wind in the trees. That can recount the whole history of mankind.

Mankind will discover objects in space sent to us by the watchers.

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

The Gospel is not about man searching for GOD but GOD reaching out to mankind!

Every generation of children offers mankind the possibility of rebuilding his ruin of a world.

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

If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.

Mankind was not meant to suffer -- bliss is our nature. The individual is cosmic. Let's rock.

I am constantly amazed by man's inhumanity to man.

Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty.

Mankind will in time discover that unbridled majorities are as tyrannical and cruel as unlimited despots.

We are so presumptuous that we think we can separate our personal interest from that of humanity, and slander mankind without compromising ourselves.

They who say that we should love our fellow-citizens but not foreigners, destroy the universal brotherhood of mankind, with which benevolence and justice would perish forever.

The greatest illusion is that mankind has limitations.

Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.

Marihuana is the most violent drug in the history of mankind.

I have not been sent to curse people, but as a mercy to all mankind.

The gift which I am sending you is called a dog, and is in fact the most precious and valuable possession of mankind

Psychedelic substances, if they are used in proper ways, are very helpful for mankind.

...It would be more consistent that we call [the Bible] the work of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind.

It is our firm conviction that mankind will live the happier when it has learned to live with music more worthily. Whoever works to promote this end, in one way or another, has not lived in vain.

The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.

You can become a Communist only when you enrich your mind with a knowledge of all the treasures created by mankind.

We leave as we came, and, God willing, as we shall return, with peace and hope for all mankind.

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.

We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

Art to me is a humanitarian act and I believe that there is a responsibility that art should somehow be able to effect mankind, to make the word a better place.