Mankind Quotes

A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners. (Seneca)
Our true nationality is mankind. View quote
H. G. Wells
That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind. View quote
Neil Armstrong
The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Music is the universal language of mankind. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown. View quote
H. P. Lovecraft
Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell. View quote
George Orwell
Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza. View quote
Dave Barry
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. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee. (John Donne)
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. View quote
Edward Gibbon
Is it not strange that mankind should so willingly battle for religion and so unwillingly live according to its precepts? View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all mankind. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind. View quote
Albert Einstein
All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit. View quote
Thomas Paine
Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay mad and you'll never be bitten. Dogs don't respect humility and sorrow. View quote
Jack Kerouac
The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased. View quote
Alexander Hamilton
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend. View quote
Ludwig van Beethoven
To despise riches may, indeed, be philosophic; but to dispense them worthily must, surely, be more beneficial to mankind. View quote
Frances Burney
I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind. (William Butler Yeats)
It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind. View quote
Jonathan Swift
The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind. View quote
H. L. Mencken
Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe. View quote
Franz Kafka
It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead. View quote
Larry Ellison