Quotes About Mankind

For the first time in the history of mankind, an experiment is made. Experimental science begins with Galileo.

From the moment when Christ told Our Lady to see Him, her son, in John, she saw Christ in all Christians. She took her only son to her heart in all men born. She saw now but one Man abiding in mankind.

As there is a degree of depravity in mankind which requires a certain degree of circumspection and distrust, so there are other qualities in human nature which justify a certain portion of esteem and confidence.

When a man hath no freedom to fight for at home, Let him combat for that of his neighbours; Let him think of the glories of Greece and of Rome, And get knocked on the head for his labours. To do good to Mankind is the chivalrous plan, And is always as nobly requited; Then battle fro Freedom wherever you can, And, if not shot or hanged, you'll get knighted.

The only wolves we got to fear are the ones wear manskin,

When Socrates and his two great disciples composed a system of rational ethics they were hardly proposing practical legislation for mankind…. They were merely writing an eloquent epitaph for their country.

The mass of mankind is divided into two classes, the Sancho Panzas who have a sense for reality, but no ideals, and the Don Quixotes with a sense for ideals, but mad.

The security of our world is found in the advancing rights of mankind.

Republicanism is not the phantom of a deluded imagination. On the contrary, laws, under no form of government, are better supported, liberty and property better secured, or happiness more effectually dispensed to mankind.

As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.

Far more has been accomplished for the welfare and progress of mankind by preventing bad actions than by doing good ones.

The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty. We have no selfish ends to serve. We desire no conquest, no domination. We seek no indemnities for ourselves, no material compensation for the sacrifices we shall freely give. We are but one of the champions of the rights of mankind. We shall be satisfied when those rights have been made as secure as the faith and freedom of nations can make them.

A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. He that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well being of mankind.

The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states - Israel, Athens, Florence, Elizabethan England.

A concern with the perfectibility of mankind is always a symptom of thwarted or perverted development.

Politics, and the fate of mankind, are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness.

The power of habit and the charm of novelty are the two adverse forces which explain the follies of mankind.

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

Ambition, old as mankind, the immemorial weakness of the strong.

That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind.

The interests of childhood and youth are the interests of mankind.

And is then example nothing? It is everything. Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

But if any man is anxious to discover the eternal font wherefrom the flame of Godhead springs, should there be one who is desirous of awakening in himself a more noble and lofty consciousness of the spirit, and within whose heart burns the aspiration to dedicate his life to the service of mankind, let such a one turn eagerly to Magic.

Of all the blessings bestowed on man, the greatest lies in the fact that God's face is forever hidden from him