Mankind Quotes - page 2

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.' (Immanuel Kant)
Mankind advances only through struggle. View quote
Gustav Stresemann
Art must unquestionably have a social value; that is, as a potential means of communication it must be addressed, and in comprehensible terms, to the understanding of mankind. View quote
Rockwell Kent
I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth. View quote
John Adams
The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind. View quote
Marquis de Sade
The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion. View quote
Thomas Paine
To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous. View quote
William Hazlitt
All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
If mankind had always been logical and wise, history would not be a long chronicle of folly and crime. View quote
James Frazer
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other. (Edmund Burke)
The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind. View quote
H. P. Lovecraft
The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal. View quote
Aleister Crowley
As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man, upon easier terms than I was formerly. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn. View quote
Joseph Addison
If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos. View quote
E. O. Wilson
All my life I struggled to stretch my mind to the breaking point, until it began to creak, in order to create a great thought which might be able to give a new meaning to life, a new meaning to death, and to console mankind. View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly. View quote
Woody Allen
In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind. View quote
Mikhail Gorbachev
No wild enthusiast ever yet could rest, till half mankind were, like himself, possest. (William Cowper)
There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second. View quote
Logan Pearsall Smith
A man has generally the good or ill qualities, which he attributes to mankind. View quote
William Shenstone
The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better. View quote
George Orwell
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt