Quotes About Mankind

If content with himself and mankind, a man is never harsh or curt.

What, man, defy the devil. Consider, he's an enemy to mankind.

All the kindness which a man puts out into the world works on the heart and thoughts of mankind.

Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not.

Through Self-realization man becomes aware of true values as to his place in the divine plan and his relation to the past, present, and future of mankind.

Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.

The Lord of Learning who upraised mankind from being silent brutes to singing men.

Nothing is given to mankind and what little men can conquer must be paid for with unjust death. But man's grandeur lies elsewhere, in his decision to rise above his condition.

There is no loftier mission than to approach the Divinity nearer than other men, and to disseminate the divine rays among mankind.

Literature is a human apocalypse, man's revelation to man, and criticism is not a body of adjudications, but the awareness of that revelation, the last judgement of mankind.

As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly.

A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.

I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of all the happiness which he can enjoy without diminishing the happiness of his fellow men

The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity.

Service to mankind must ever be the ideal of this great university. It was established in the name of Jesus Christ, who gave his life that all men might live.

To laugh is proper to man.

If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.

Until the reality of equality between man and woman is fully established and attained, the highest social development of mankind is not possible.

Law is nothing else but the best reason of wise men applied for ages to the transactions and business of mankind.

One man is more concerned with the impression he makes on the rest of mankind, another with the impression the rest of mankind makes on him.

Central governments have always been the greatest danger to mankind.

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown. These facts few psychologists will dispute, and their admitted truth must establish for all time the genuineness and dignity of the weirdly horrible tale as a literary form.

Whatever opinion may be formed of the extent of his dissipation in Dumfries, one fact is unquestionable, that his powers remained unimpaired to the last; it was there he produced his finest lyrics, and they are the finest, as well as the purest, that ever delighted mankind.

For the one enemy we have in this Universe is Stupidity, Darkness of Mind; of which darkness, again, there are many sources, every sin a source, and probably self-conceit the chief source. Darkness of mind, in every kind and variety, does to a really tragic extent abound: but of all the kinds of darkness, surely the Pedant darkness, which asserts and believes itself to be light, is the most formidable to mankind!