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Quotes About Mankind

The law established by the Creator, which has existed from the beginning, extends over the whole globe, is everywhere and at all times binding upon mankind.
~ Rufus King
What generally passes for 'thought' among the majority of mankind is the time one takes out to rearrange one's prejudices.
~ Clare Boothe Luce
Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value.
~ Mark Twain
The unconscious is the unwritten history of mankind from time unrecorded.
~ Carl Jung
Los hombres siempre creen poder mejorar a la Naturaleza y corregir la obra de Dios.
~ Anna Sewell
If God lets me live, I shall attain more than Mummy ever has done, I shall not remain insignificant, I shall work in the world and for mankind! And now I know that first and foremost I shall require courage and cheerfulness!
~ Anne Frank
I shall not remain insignificant, I shall work in the world for all mankind!
~ Anne Frank
I shall not remain insignificant, I shall work in the world and for mankind!
~ Anne Frank
the day mankind learns to profit from the lessons of history I shall look for the Second Coming.
~ Anne Perry
When there is so much tragedy and pain in the world that we cannot help, it seems incomprehensible that we should bring even more upon ourselves. Sometimes I despair of mankind.
~ Anne Perry
Bao is the acceptance that mankind is part of the fabric of the universe, not the purpose of it. Humanity is meant to live as part of creation, not as the owner of it or to make war against it.
~ Sheri S. Tepper
Love is the greatest corrupter ever known and has been the numbers one downfall of mankind since the first creation.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
I follow after my father, who likes to protect mankind, and I really don't want to see a bunch of demons eating people. Call me sentimental. (Kat)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
And I can't let you out of here until I know what your plans are. (Kat) To stop the annihilation of mankind and the earth. It's a simple plan, really, but an important one. Can I go now? (Sin)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
For every act of cruelty mankind is capable of, they're just as capable of kindness.(Leta)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
i shall imagine life is not worth dying,if (and when)roses complain their beauties are in vain but though mankind persuades itself that every weed's a rose,roses(you feel certain)will only smile
~ e. e. cummings
But at power or wealth, for the sake of which wars, and all kinds of strife, arise among mankind, we do not aim; we desire only our liberty, which no honorable man relinquishes but with his life.
~ Sallust
My ideal, indeed, can be put into a few words, and that is: to preach unto mankind their divinity, and how to make it manifest in every movement of life.
~ Swami Vivekananda
A man deserves credit when he accomplishes something of importance. Something that provides for the betterment of his life and his family's life and, whenever possible, mankind.
~ Therese Anne Fowler
The Saviour of mankind Himself, in whose blameless life malice could find no act to impeach, has been called in question for words spoken.
~ Thomas B. Macaulay
False principles, which correspond with the bad as well as with the just aspirations of mankind, are a normal and necessary element in the social life of nations.
~ Lord Acton
This was Shakespeare's form ; Who walk'd in every path of human life, Felt every passion ; and to all mankind Doth now, will ever, that experience yield Which his own genius only could acquire.
~ Mark Akenside
The destiny of mankind is arranged for happy moments every life has such but not for happy times.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
It is only possible through the fact that sympathy for the general life and suffering of mankind is very weakly developed in the individual.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche