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Mankind Quotes

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"We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners."
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"By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade."
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"I think it's wrong the way they criminalize herb. There are many more uses than just smoking. Beneficial to mankind."
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"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind."
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"To live in mankind is far more than to live in a name."
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"She has great problems of her own to solve, very grim and perilous problems, and a right solution, if we can attain to it, would largely benefit mankind."
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"Our true nationality is mankind."
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"Visions describe what best should be, could be - if and when mankind has the will to make them real."
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"To govern mankind, one must not overrate them."
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"The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments."
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"Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response."
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"A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners."
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"Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious."
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"Mankind is made great or little by its own will."
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"Christendom appears clearly to me to be one of those trifling, insignificant arts, which has never been of any substantial advantage to mankind."
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"To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind."
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"If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures."
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"Sickness is mankind's greatest defect."
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"One sees a blatant disregard for the precious souls of mankind."
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"I like to watch mankind in its futile attempt to understand the unknown, when they don't even understand that which they know."
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"It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead."
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"Mankind advances only through struggle."
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"To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed."
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"According to the now almost universally accepted theory, all the races of mankind had a common origin."
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"We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather."
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"A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind."
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"Mankind is considered (by the radical environmentalists) the lowest and the meanest of all species and is blamed for everything."
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"It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for better things that it moves at all."
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"The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind."
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"I think I did every drug known to mankind, smoked crack, boozed, dropped acid, you name it."
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"The histories of mankind are histories only of the higher classes."
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"An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind."
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"General consultant to 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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"Mankind have their local attachments. They have a particular regard for the spot, in which they were born and nurtured."
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"All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind."
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"Mankind at its most desperate is often at its best."
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"If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?"
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"All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind."
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"It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind."
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"If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present."
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"The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind."
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"The proper study of mankind is woman."
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