Mankind Quotes

Prayer may just be the most powerful tool mankind has.” ~Blink

The love of power is the demon of mankind.

The simple record of these three short years of active life has done more to regenerate and soften mankind than all the discourses of philosophers and all the exhortations of moralists.

Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions, the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.

What I really want out of life is to discover something new, something mankind didn’t know was possible to do.

The common sense of mankind demands that law shall not stop with the punishment of petty crimes by little people. It must also reach men who possess themselves of great power.

It was the dawn of the third age of mankind.

Mankind adores its betrayers, and murders its saviors.

When anyone prays, the angels that minister to God and watch over mankind gather round about him and join with him in prayer.

See the brotherhood of all mankind as the highest order of Yogis; conquer your own mind, and conquer the world.

Repeal all laws which assume that mankind is a herd of cattle

I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind.

You should avoid hedging, at least that's what I think. You should be ashamed to die until you've made some contribution to mankind.

I've always considered movies evil; the day that cinema was invented was a black day for mankind.

Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.

No more war, war never again! Peace, it is peace which must guide the destinies of people and of all mankind.

The solution for mankind is of a spiritual nature. It is not a political or religious solution. It's the ability to love each other. That's the only solution I see.

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.

The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.

The creation of Physics is the shared heritage of all mankind. East and West, North and South have equally participated in it.

I am often surprised by the cleverness, and now and again by the stupidity, of my dog; and I have similar experiences with mankind.

The bulk of mankind have indeed, in all countries in their turn, been made the prey of ambition.

The war against hunger is truly mankind's war of liberation.

Cloning will enable mankind to reach eternal life.

Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.

Happy will it be for ourselves, and most honorable for human nature, if we have wisdom and virtue enough to set so glorious an example to mankind!

To consider mankind other than brethren...plainly supposes a darkness of understanding.

So far as I am acquainted with the principles and doctrines of Freemasonry, I conceive it to be founded in benevolence and to be exercised only for the good of mankind.

The proper study of mankind is the science of design.

10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.

Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.

Food is a central activity of mankind and one of the single most significant trademarks of a culture.

Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.

Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization. It has kept mankind in slavery and oppression. The Church and the State have always fraternally united to exploit the people.

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear.

Whatever Nature has in store for mankind, unpleasant as it may be, men must accept, for ignorance is never better than knowledge.

The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.

As the excellence of steel is strength, and the excellence of art is beauty, so the excellence of mankind is moral character.

If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a brave man, - it is the man who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.

Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked

The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.

It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.

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

The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.

Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction.

This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.

Genius has no age, no country, no race; it belongs to mankind.

The vast majority of mankind never gives a thought of gratitude towards God for all His care and blessings.

Above all we should not forget, that government is an evil, an usurpation upon the private judgment and individual conscience of mankind.