Mankind Quotes - page 3

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. (Rudyard Kipling)
National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people. View quote
Desiderius Erasmus
Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon. View quote
Terry Pratchett
However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing is impossible. View quote
Lewis Mumford
All mankind love a lover. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Emotions have taught mankind to reason. View quote
Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues
All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing. View quote
Molière
Magnify the divine mystery and the holiness of mankind. View quote
Franz Werfel
The proper study of mankind is books. View quote
Aldous Huxley
There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind. (Joseph Conrad)
Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts. View quote
Joseph Stalin
The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler. View quote
Franz Kafka
It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind. View quote
Voltaire
The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind. View quote
John Maynard Keynes
All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions. View quote
John Locke
It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living by its purely physical effect on the human temperament would most beneficiallyinfluence the lot of mankind. View quote
Albert Einstein
A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality. View quote
William Winwood Reade
The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay. View quote
Martin Luther
Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind. View quote
John F. Kennedy
There is no short and easy road, no magic cure for those ills which have afflicted mankind from the dawn of history. (Frank B. Kellogg)
All through the years since World War II, the Japanese people have, I am convinced, made strenuous efforts to preserve and promote world peace, contributing to the progress and prosperity of mankind. View quote
Eisaku Sato
I am at peace with God and all mankind. View quote
Harriet Tubman
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. View quote
Thomas Jefferson