Mankind Quotes
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The freedom of Mankind does not lie in the fact that can do what we want, but that we do not have to do that which we do not want.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Our cause is noble; it is the cause of mankind!
George Washington
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In the long run, we must focus on what is the better good for mankind.
Dennis Hastert
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The fact is, every thinker, every philosopher, the moment he is forced to abandon his one-sided intellectual occupation by practical necessity, immediately returns to the general point of view of mankind.
Ernst Mach
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I think provincialism is an endemic characteristic with mankind, I think everybody everywhere is provincial, but it is particularly striking with Texans, and we tend to be very Texcentric.
Molly Ivins
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Whatever the color of a man's skin, we are all mankind. So every denial of freedom, of equal opportunity for a livelihood, or for an education, diminishes me.
Everett Dirksen
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God's greatest tragedy is the creation of mankind.
Nicholas John Frost
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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.
Moliere
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To the mass of mankind religion of some kind is a necessity.
Alfred Russel Wallace
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Mankind are a herd of knaves and fools. It is necessary to join the crowd, or get out of their way, in order not to be trampled to death by them.
William Hazlitt
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No other animal on Earth has portrayed such a disregard for life than mankind.
Anthony Douglas Williams
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I admit that one should never underestimate the capacity of banks to destroy enormous amounts of accumulated capital and reduce, temporarily, the supply. After all, capital is the accumulated savings of mankind. And banks are great masters in destroying enormous amounts of capital with great regularity.
Arie de Geus
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Our true nationality is mankind.
H. G. Wells
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History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior.
Vladimir Putin
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Religion is as necessary to reason as reason is to religion. The one cannot exist without the other. A reasoning being would lose his reason, in attempting to account for the great phenomena of nature, had he not a Supreme Being to refer to; and well has it been said, that if there had been no God, mankind would have been obliged to imagine one.
George Washington
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To be true to the mythical conception of a God is to be false to the interests of mankind.
E. Haldeman-Julius
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The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity.
D. H. Lawrence
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The instinct of interest is the universal instinct of mankind.
Charles Macklin
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Families are the Nurseries of all Societies; and the First combinations of mankind.
Cotton Mather
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Mankind deserves sacrifice - but not of mankind.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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Gluttony is mankind's exclusive prerogative.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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And now without redemption all mankind Must have been lost, adjudged to death and hell By doom severe.
John Milton
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Charity is ... a universal remedy against discord, and an holy cement for mankind.
William Penn
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It's difficult to understand why people don't realize that pets are gifts to mankind.
Linda Blair