Mankind Quotes

Death offers mankind a full view of truth.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.