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Quotes About Mankind

The higher state to which [America] seeks the allegiance of all mankind is not of human, but of divine origin. She cherishes no purpose save to merit the favor of Almighty God.
~ Calvin Coolidge
God is certainly one. He has no second. He is unfathomable, unknowable and unknown to the vast majority of mankind.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Even like as St. Paul was converted, just so are all others converted; for we all resist God, but the Holy Ghost draws the will of mankind, when he pleases, through preaching.
~ Martin Luther
Twas a special gift of God that speech was given to mankind; for through the Word, and not by force, wisdom governs.
~ Martin Luther
God's greatest tragedy is the creation of mankind.
~ Nick Frost
I can understand the things that afflict mankind, but I often marvel at God those which console. An atom may wound, but God alone can heal.
~ Sophie Swetchine
To be true to the mythical conception of a God is to be false to the interests of mankind.
~ E. Haldeman-Julius
As if God's gonna let mankind destroy the planet with SUV's. It's silly, when you think about it.
~ E.W. Jackson
And thus was kept the first Christmas, the Christmas in the year one, with carols by the choir of heaven, and God's own Son, the Saviour of the world, coming as a Christmas gift for all mankind.
~ George Hodges (theologian)
The laws of God given to mankind are embodied in the gospel plan, and the Church of Jesus Christ is made responsible for teaching these laws to the world.
~ Harold B. Lee
Bethink you of the blessedness. Every wife is like the Mother of God and has the hope of bearing a saviour of mankind.
~ John Buchan
The history of mankind is the history of our misunderstandings with god, for he doesn't understand us, and we don't understand him.
~ Jose Saramago
Mankind will never know peace until the last politician is strangled to death with the entrails of the last priest.
~ J.Adam Snyder
The discovery of a good wine is increasingly better for mankind than the discovery of a new star.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
It must be remembered that there is no real reason to expect anything in particular from mankind; good and evil are local expedients - or their lack - and not in any sense cosmic truths or laws.
~ H. P. Lovecraft
Within thy Grave! Oh no, but on some other flight - Thou only camest to mankind To rend it with Good night
~ Emily Dickinson
We serve a good God who oversees the affairs of mankind.
~ Max Lucado
The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.
~ Walter Bagehot
The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Bankruptcies of governments have, on the whole, done less harm to mankind than their ability to raise loans.
~ R. H. Tawney
The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.
~ Thomas Paine
A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions.
~ James Madison
If credit expansion, protectionism, and government spending were a path to prosperity, mankind would have long ago created heaven on earth.
~ Llewellyn Rockwell
no one more sincerely wishes the spread of information among mankind than I do, and none has greater confidence in it's effect towards supporting free & good government.
~ Thomas Jefferson