Mankind Quotes

Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.

Mankind is the grandest and surest artist of all, and history as it clarifies is, in pure fact, an artistic process, a creation in its fullness of the beautiful soul.

Man will not merely endure; he will prevail...

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

O ye that love mankind! Ye that dare oppose, not only the tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth! Every spot of the old world is overrun with oppression. Freedom hath been hunted round the globe. Asia, and Africa, have long expelled her. Europe regards her like a stranger, and England hath given her warning to depart. O! receive the fugitive, and prepare in time an asylum for mankind.

Politics. The art of governing mankind by deceiving them.

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.

Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.

A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.

Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason. Events which excite those feelings will produce wonderful effects.

The history of mankind is the history of ideas. For it is ideas, theories, and doctrines that guide human action, determine the ultimate ends men aim at, and the choice of the means employed for the attainment of these ends.

It is thus that mutual cowardice keeps us in peace. Were one-half of mankind brave and one-half cowards, the brave would always be beating the cowards. Were all brave, they would leave a very uneasy life; all would be continually fighting; but being all cowards, we go on very well.

Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.

The love of power is the demon of mankind.

Of all the creatures that were made, man is the most detestable. Of the entire brood he is the only one--the solitary one--that possesses malice. That is the basest of all instincts, passions, vices--the most hateful. He is the only creature that has pain for sport, knowing it to be pain.

I love mankind; it's people I can't stand.

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

Our country is the world — our countrymen are all mankind

Civilization develops man, and if he is, according to his whole character and destiny, made for development, civilization is his truly natural state …

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

All mankind rules its women, and we rule all mankind, but our women rule us.

I always seek the good that is in people and leave the bad to Him who made mankind and knows how to round off the corners.

But even more: all at once the Jew also becomes liberal and begins to rave about the necessary progress of mankind.

Is the only lesson of history to be that mankind is unteachable?

Who so ever kills a human being for other than manslaughter or corruption in the earth, it shall be as if he has killed all mankind, and who so ever saves the life of one, it shall be as if he had saved the life of all mankind