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Quotes About Mankind

Ancient philosophy proposed to mankind an art of living. By contrast, modern philosophy appears above all as the construction of a technical jargon reserved for specialists.
~ Pierre Hadot
...love rather than fear...this radical philosophy is coming from me, an avowed misanthrope...surely there is hope for us all.
~ Bill Hicks
It is certain that the easy and obvious philosophy will always, with the generality of mankind, have preference above the accurate.
~ David Hume
Plato is philosophy, and philosophy, Plato,--at once the glory and the shame of mankind, since neither Saxon nor Roman have availed to add any idea to his categories.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Philosophy should be an energy; it should find its aim and its effect in the amelioration of mankind.
~ Victor Hugo
Three passions simple but overwhelmingly strong have governed my life: the longing for love the search for knowledge and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
~ Bertrand Russell
The genesis of life, unfold before us, the mere essence of our being……tarnished.Mankind can no longer survive on its own.
~ Robin Alleyna
Mankind has two immense problems, they forget to use logic and begin at the root of each trouble.
~ K.R. Royal
It may be inevitable that mankind has to suffer so that it may gain experience to transcend and transform her collective consciousness.
~ Debasish Mridha
To transform mankind into a joyful garden, let us bloom like a spring flower.
~ Debasish Mridha
Only by changing the state of consciousness can we change mankind.
~ Debasish Mridha
Numbers and more numbers...the future of mankind has come down to decimals. I guess you will figure that out, eventually.
~ Anthony T. Hincks
Life is amazing gift from God to mankind.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
There is only one hope for mankind - and that is democratic socialism. There is only one party in Great Britain which can do it - and that is the Labour Party.
~ Aneurin Bevan
The purpose of poetry is to restore to mankind the possibility to wonder.
~ Octavio Paz
Poetry is the universal possession of mankind, revealing itself everywhere, and at all times, in hundreds and hundreds of men.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind.
~ Mikhail Gorbachev
I happen to think that American politics is one of the noblest arts of mankind; and I cannot do anything else but write about it.
~ Theodore White
Our world is in profound danger. Mankind must establish a set of positive values with which to secure its own survival.
~ Richard Matheson
It's Friday morning mankind!Good vibe, Don't Frown and let the monster see you smile!
~ Napz Cherub Pellazo
Love is the most durable power in the world. This creative force is the most potent instrument available in mankind's quest for peace and security.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense.
~ Dante Alighieri
I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.
~ Thomas Hobbes
We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.
~ John F. Kennedy