Quotes About Mankind

But in all despotic governments, though a particular prince may favour arts and letter, there is a natural degeneracy of mankind.

No one, I hope, can doubt my wish to see... all mankind exercising self-government, and capable of exercising it. But the question is not what we wish, but what is practicable.

By the by, if the English race had done nothing else, yet if they left the world the notion of a gentleman, they would have done a great service to mankind.

Action is the great business of mankind, and the whole matter about which all laws are conversant.

Practical atheism, seeing no guidance for human affairs but its own limited foresight, endeavors itself to play the god, and decide what will be good for mankind and what bad.

This is my genre...the happiness, tragedies, and the sorrows of mankind as realized in the teeming black ghetto.

The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.

From a sensitive woman's heart springs the happiness of mankind, and from the kindness of her noble spirit comes mankind's affection.

No true and permanent fame can be founded, except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.

The true cook is the perfect blend, the only perfect blend, of artist and philosopher. He knows his worth: he holds in his palm the happiness of mankind, the welfare of generations yet unborn.

Happiness is not the natural state of mankind, and is never achieved from the outside in.

Now are ye undeceived. Evil is the nature of mankind. Evil must be your only happiness. Welcome again, my children, to the communion of your race.

It appeared to me obvious that the happiness of mankind should be the aim of all action, and I discovered to my surprise that there were those who thought otherwise.

The history of empires is the record of human misery; the history of the sciences is that of the greatness and happiness of mankind.

The soul is subject to health and disease, just as is the body. The health and disease of both . . . undoubtedly depend upon beliefs and customs, which are peculiar to mankind.

You must be sure that whatever health is brought to mankind it all comes from God.

It has been a privilege to pursue knowledge for its own sake and to see how it might help mankind in more practical ways.

Africa has no history and did not contribute to anything that mankind enjoyed.

Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.

In the history of mankind, fanaticism has caused more harm than vice.

There are only two great currents in the history of mankind: the baseness which makes conservatives and the envy which makes revolutionaries.

Since Eve negotiated Adam, I am the most disadvantaged negotiator in history of mankind. I have no army, no navy, no air force, no economy.

If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind.

Capitalism is the greatest poverty-fighting machine in the history of mankind, and I'm proud of the role I've played in it.