Mankind Quotes

With mankind some expressions, such as the bristling of the hair under the influence of extreme terror, or the uncovering of the teeth under that of furious rage, can hardly be understood, except on the belief that man once existed in a much lower and animal-like condition.

Even people who aren't geniuses can outthink the rest of mankind if they develop certain thinking habits.

Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.

Machinery should be a blessing to mankind and not a curse.

Mankind always sets itself only such tasks as it can solve; since, looking at the matter more closely, we will always find that the task itself arises only when the material conditions necessary for its solution already exist or are at least in the process of formation.

If we have chosen the position in life in which we can most of all work for mankind, no burdens can bow us down, because they are sacrifices for the benefit of all; then we shall experience no petty, limited, selfish joy, but our happiness will belong to millions, our deeds will live on quietly but perpetually at work, and over our ashes will be shed the hot tears of noble people.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

Peace is the most powerful weapon of mankind.

I hold that the more helpless a creature the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of humankind.

I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind; and therefore ... I am for those means which will give the greatest good to the greatest number.

The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking... the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.

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

I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in some of the realm - not all - that religion used to fill.

Death offers mankind a full view of truth.

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

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.