Mankind Quotes
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Our cause is noble; it is the cause of mankind!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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To the mass of mankind religion of some kind is a necessity.
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No other animal on Earth has portrayed such a disregard for life than mankind.
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Families are the Nurseries of all Societies; and the First combinations of mankind.
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In the long run, we must focus on what is the better good for mankind.
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The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.
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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.
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Mankind deserves sacrifice - but not of mankind.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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If you ever go behind the glass and look at the focus groups that are deciding what you're gonna watch, it's scary. This cross-section of people they just happen to bring in to decide the fate of mankind on television is really scary.
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God's greatest tragedy is the creation of mankind.
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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.
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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.
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It's difficult to understand why people don't realize that pets are gifts to mankind.
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The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity.
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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.
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The instinct of interest is the universal instinct of mankind.
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And now without redemption all mankind Must have been lost, adjudged to death and hell By doom severe.
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Charity is ... a universal remedy against discord, and an holy cement for mankind.
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Gluttony is mankind's exclusive prerogative.
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Ever since mankind stopped wandering around aimlessly and started cultivating its own food, society has been growing more complex. As soon as we stopped sleeping with our cousins and built walls, temples and a few decent nightclubs, society became too complex for any one person to grasp all at once, and thus bureaucracy was born.
