63 Best Mankind Quotes And Sayings
Mankind is human beings considered collectively; the human race.
1. What we’re fighting … what mankind has always been fighting … is evil. Evil will always use the most expedient route to achieve its goal of destroying humanity. It doesn’t matter what the battle is about. From the recent bloodletting over religious ideology to the hatred of another man just because of the color of his skin, evil will use whatever triggers the urge within us to hate
John Lyman
2. She who can paint a masterpiece or write a book that will influence millions deserves the plaudits and admiration of mankind. But she who would willingly and anxiously rear successfully a family of beautiful healthy sons and daughters whose lives reflect the teachings of the gospel, deserves the highest honors that man can give, and the choicest blessings of God. In fact, in her high duty and service to humanity, endowing with mortality eternal spirits, she is a co-partner with the Great Creator Himself
David O. Mckay
3. And yet how simple it is: in one day, in one hour everything could be arranged at once! The chief thing is to love others like yourself, that’s the chief thing, and that’s everything; nothing else is wanted — you will find out at once how to arrange it all
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
4. If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers are always good? Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race? Or do they believe that they themselves are made of a finer clay than the rest of mankind?
Frederic Bastiat
5. Mankind can only disappoint mother nature for so long.
Anthony D. Williams
6. The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity.
D. H. Lawrence
7. I believe in conversation of mankind, not it's destruction.
M. K. Gandhi
8. Music is the universal language of mankind.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
9. Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
Thomas Jefferson
10. When asked whether he considered himself to be a German or a Jew, Einstein replied'It is quite possible to be both. I look upon myself as a man.
Albert Einstein
11. Only when fulfilling their best dreams, the mankind moves forward
Anonymous
12. If mankind had not embedded itself, with the momentum of centuries and the passion of habit, in the idée fixe that a tyrant is one man, they would easily understand that to be persecuted by the masses is the most grievous of all, because the masses are the sum of the individuals, so that each individual makes his little contribution, while he does not realise how great it becomes when all of them do it.
Søren Kierkegaard
13. A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality.
William Winwood Reade
14. The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Mahatma Gandhi
15. A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality.
William Winwood Reade
16. By taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
Francis Bacon
17. Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.
John F. Kennedy
18. You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Mahatma Gandhi
19. Humankind has accumulated generation upon generation of knowledge, the culmination of which is the vast and useful technological array we see everywhere in modern society. Despite this great accumulation of knowledge and technology, we still suffer from starvation and war. The difference between the past and the present is the difference between throwing rocks and shooting missiles. We are still in conflict. Suffering on a fundamental level hasn’t ceased. But we nevertheless persist in the notion that if we just amass a bit more knowledge, we’ll all be o.k. Maybe a new philosophy will do the trick, or a new system of government. But all of this has been tried many times.
H.E. Davey
20. Mankind is a great, an immense family. This is proved by what we feel in our hearts at Christmas.
Pope John XXIII
21. What, man, defy the devil. Consider, he's an enemy to mankind.
William Shakespeare
22. The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.
H.P. Lovecraft
23. The sun with loving light makes bright for me each day, the soul with spirit power gives strength unto my limbs. In sunlight shining clear I revere, Oh God, the strength of humankind, which thou has planted in my soul, that I may with all my might, may love to work and learn. From thee stream light and strength to thee rise love and thanks
Rudolf Steiner
24. Mankind is getting smarter every day. Actually, it only seems so. At least we are making progress. We’re progressing, to be sure, ever more deeply into the forest.
Franz Grillparzer
25. Mankind makes living contradictory
Anonymous
26. The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
Bertrand Russell
27. Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
Theodore Roosevelt
28. The forces that are driving mankind toward unity and peace are deep-seated and powerful. They are material and natural, as well as moral and intellectual.
Arthur Henderson
29. I am constantly amazed by man's inhumanity to man.
Primo Levi
30. Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.
Robert Green Ingersoll
31. No two men are absolutely alike, not even twins, yet there is much that is indispensably common to all mankind. M.K. Gandhi
32. This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
Neil Armstrong
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33. We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.
Albert Einstein
34. It’s not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something. May I suggest that it be creating joy for others, sharing what we have for the betterment of personkind, bringing hope to the lost and love to the lonely.
Leo Buscaglia
35. Mankind: A quality of life upgrade is available to each and every one of you. It should give you a quality of life upgrade, which means no drugs, no alcohol, no fast food – unless, of course, it’s a mallard.
Ted Nugent
36. Mankind is a single nation
Anonymous
37. You know about the Mother Goddess – the first female god, a fat woman with a lion on one side and a child between her legs. She was the first god of humankind. Do you know why than ancient people of Anatolia chose her as their god? Because men were not aware of their roles as impregnators. They thought that it was the wind, the rain, the rivers, in short, nature, that impregnated women. And this was not at all a strange idea at the time. People viewed themselves as part of nature. They thought birth was magic, a miracle.
Ahmet Umit
38. I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.
James Boswell
39. The greatest threats to mankind, Is Mankind
Anonymous
40. If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve1.
Abigail Adams
41. The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
Thomas Paine
42. The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
Arthur C. Clarke
43. Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged. Helen Keller
Helen Keller
44. Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
Albert Einstein
45. Mankind advances only through struggle.
Gustav Stresemann
46. That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.
Neil Armstrong
47. The world is indeed comic but the joke is on man kind
Anonymous
48. Mankind is one, seeing that all are equally subject to the moral law. All men are equal in God's eyes. Mahatma Gandhi
49. An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.
Walter Bagehot
50. All mankind love a lover.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
51. Our true nationality is mankind.
H. G. Wells
52. Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.
Augustus Hare
53. Mankind is composed of two sorts of men those who love and create, and those who hate and destroy.
Jose Marti
54. Be kind to every kind, not just mankind.
Anthony Douglas Williams
55. Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.
John F. Kennedy
56. Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
Rudyard Kipling
57. Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am … wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.
Ludwig van Beethoven
58. If your plan is for one year plant rice. If your plan is for ten years plant trees. If you plan for one hundred years educate mankind
Anonymous
59. Some discussion of the nature and temperament of the fairies is necessary in view of its possible bearing on their origin. J. G. Campbell tells us that in the Highlands of Scotland they were regarded as “the counterparts of mankind, but substantial and unreal, outwardly invisible.” They differ from mortals in the possession of magical power, but are strangely dependent in many ways on man. They are generally considered by the folk at large as of a nature between spirits and men. “They are,” says Wentz, “a distinct race between our own and that of spirits.
Lewis Snence
60. The awakening of consciousness is the next evolutionary step for mankind.
Eckhart Tolle
61. Must be frustrating being a scientist. There you are, incrementally discovering how the universe works via a series of complex tests and experiments, for the benefit of all mankind – and what thanks do you get? People call you “egghead” or “boffin” or “heretic”, and they cave your face in with a rock and bury you out in the wilderness.
Not literally – not in this day and age – but you get the idea. Scientists are mistrusted by huge swathes of the general public, who see them as emotionless lab-coated meddlers-with-nature rather than, say, fellow human beings who’ve actually bothered getting off their arses to work this shit out.
Charlie Brooker
62. God is certainly one. He has no second. He is unfathomable, unknowable and unknown to the vast majority of mankind.
M. K. Gandhi
63. This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
Neil Armstrong