Mankind Quotes

Anyone who ever studied mankind by listening to them was self-deluded. The first thing they should have done was to answer the question, "Can they report to you correctly on their behavior?" And the answer is, "No, the poor bastards cannot."

Bill Mollison
- Mankind
- Behavior
- Report
I suppose the thing that really interests me is what mankind did with the big, big, big discoveries that have created our modern age.

Stephen Fry
- Age
- Mankind
- Modern

There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.

Jonathan Swift
- Mankind
- Avarice
Supposing we knew that up there is some alien civilization and it's sending radio signals our way we should not tell the public where that is. We could say that we've picked up a signal, but we should not tell them where for the simple reason that anybody could commandeer a radio telescope, set themselves up as some self appointed spokesperson of mankind and start beaming all sorts of crazy messages back to the aliens.

Paul Davies
- Simple
- Crazy
- Reason
Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally, among mankind.

Thomas Carlyle
- Hero
- Mankind
- Exists
To live for a principle, for the triumph of some reform by which all mankind are to be lifted up to be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Mankind is interdependent, and the happiness of each depends upon the happiness of all, and it is this lesson that humanity has to learn today as the first and the last lesson.

Hazrat Inayat Khan
All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

Thomas Carlyle