Quotes on Mankind

The proper study of mankind is woman.

Author: Henry Adams

If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?

Author: John Adams

Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.

Author: Amos Alcott

An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.

Author: Walter Bagehot

All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

Author: Henry Beecher

If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present.

Author: Franz Boas

To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind.

Author: Fanny Burney

To govern mankind, one must not overrate them.

Author: Lord Chesterfield

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.

Author: Gilbert Chesterton

Mankind have their local attachments. They have a particular regard for the spot, in which they were born and nurtured.

Author: Thomas Clarkson

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

Author: Joseph Conrad

We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

Author: Albert Einstein

It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead.

Author: Larry Ellison

By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.

Author: Desiderius Erasmus

All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.

Author: Benjamin Franklin

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.

Author: Benjamin Franklin

Mankind at its most desperate is often at its best.

Author: Bob Geldof

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.

Author: George Gissing

Christendom appears clearly to me to be one of those trifling, insignificant arts, which has never been of any substantial advantage to mankind.

Author: Edward Hicks

I like to watch mankind in its futile attempt to understand the unknown, when they don't even understand that which they know.

Author: Terrence Howard

According to the now almost universally accepted theory, all the races of mankind had a common origin.

Author: Ellsworth Huntington

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

Author: Thomas Jefferson

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

Author: Thomas Jefferson

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.

Author: Samuel Johnson

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Author: Rudyard Kipling

If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures.

Author: Alfred Korzybski

Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.

Author: Georg Lichtenberg

To live in mankind is far more than to live in a name.

Author: Vachel Lindsay

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.

Author: Henry Lodge

The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.

Author: H. Lovecraft

The histories of mankind are histories only of the higher classes.

Author: Thomas Malthus

I think it's wrong the way they criminalize herb. There are many more uses than just smoking. Beneficial to mankind.

Author: Ziggy Marley

The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind.

Author: George Mason

The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.

Author: H. Mencken

The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.

Author: Ludwig Mises

One sees a blatant disregard for the precious souls of mankind.

Author: Thomas Monson

A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants.

Author: Plato

Mankind is considered (by the radical environmentalists) the lowest and the meanest of all species and is blamed for everything.

Author: Dixie Ray

I think I did every drug known to mankind, smoked crack, boozed, dropped acid, you name it.

Author: Kid Rock

Visions describe what best should be, could be - if and when mankind has the will to make them real.

Author: James Rouse

Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

Author: Friedrich Schiller

It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.

Author: Karl Schlegel

The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.

Author: Arthur Schopenhauer

A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.

Author: Lucius Seneca

General consultant to mankind.

Author: George Shaw

A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.

Author: Isaac Singer

Mankind advances only through struggle.

Author: Gustav Stresemann

We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather.

Author: Marquis Vauvenargues

Our true nationality is mankind.

Author: H. Wells

Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

Author: Alfred Whitehead