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To live for a principle, for the triumph of some reform by which all mankind are to be lifted up to be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages. - Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Mankind advances only through struggle. - Gustav Stresemann

We have to acknowledge peace is in danger and mankind still has not realised the priority to be given to world dialogue versus armed contradiction and bloodshed. - Nursultan Nazarbayev

Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery. - Robert Green Ingersoll

For the vast majority of mankind's history, economic activity consisted of finding energy and using energy. - Li Lu

I am glad that mankind on the whole are dreamers. - Ajith Kumar

The law, which restrains a man from doing mischief to his fellow citizens, though it diminishes the natural, increases the civil liberty of mankind. - William Blackstone

I have not the slightest doubt that this form of individuation represents a higher stage in the evolution of mankind. - Herbert Read

I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death. - Thomas Hobbes

If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind. - John Stuart Mill

It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own. - William Inge

Mankind at its most desperate is often at its best. - Bob Geldof

It is a startling and solemnizing fact that even as late as the twentieth century, the Great Command of Jesus Christ to carry the Gospel to all mankind is still so largely unfulfilled. - John Mott

I think there's so much we don't know and the unknown in the ocean; every 10 years or so, we find some fossil that's been there before mankind. - Ving Rhames

I will say this: I think 'Big Brother' is the biggest snooze known to mankind. - R. J. Cutler

While the pulpit must hold to its unswerving loyalty to the Word of God, it must, at the same time, be loyal to the doctrine of prayer which that same Word illustrates and enforces upon mankind. - Edward McKendree Bounds

To mankind in general Macbeth and Lady Macbeth stand out as the supreme type of all that a host and hostess should not be. - Max Beerbohm

All mankind is now learning that these nuclear weapons can only serve to destroy, never become beneficial. - Alva Myrdal

I work very much on the principle that anything created by mankind has mischief and error hardwired into its inception. - Jasper Fforde

If popular culture has taught us anything, it is that someday mankind must face and destroy the growing robot menace. - Daniel H. Wilson

The combination of hatred and technology is the greatest danger threatening mankind. - Simon Wiesenthal

Boldness and decision command, often even in evil, the respect and concurrence of mankind. - Robert Dale Owen

The sexual abuse and exploitation of children is one of the most vicious crimes conceivable, a violation of mankind's most basic duty to protect the innocent. - James T. Walsh

I'm not surprised that Spielberg was able to capture the heroism of Schindler; so many of his movies are about the better part of mankind. - Gene Siskel

It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for better things that it moves at all. - George Gissing

We've evolved over millions of years to sense the world around us. We use our five natural senses to perceive information. But the huge amount of information mankind has accumulated and stored online cannot be perceived by these senses. - Pranav Mistry

A vision of truth which does not call upon us to get out of our armchair - why, this is the desideratum of mankind. - John Jay Chapman

The question I want to put forward is, 'Does the technology we are developing ultimately benefit mankind?' - Moshe Vardi

Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious. - Alfred North Whitehead

We have lived through the flood time of fascism and of the nazism which ran its meteoric course at a cost to mankind in suffering and waste beyond all computation. - Emily Greene Balch

The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt. - Henry George

What love is to man, music is to the arts and to mankind. - Carl Maria von Weber

When mankind first saw the necessity of government, it is probable that many had conceived the desire of ruling. - Thomas Clarkson

To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue. - William Hazlitt

Before the discovery of agriculture mankind was everywhere so divided, the size of each group being determined by the natural fertility of its locality. - Arthur Keith

It is not differences of opinion; it is geographical lines, rivers, and mountains which divide State from State, and make different nations of mankind. - Jefferson Davis

By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade. - Desiderius Erasmus

Mankind has actually flourished in warmer temperatures. - Ron Johnson

To the mass of mankind religion of some kind is a necessity. - Alfred Russel Wallace

The public has been sold a bill of goods about the free market being a panacea for mankind. - Tom Scholz

Charity is a supreme virtue, and the great channel through which the mercy of God is passed onto mankind. - Conrad Hilton

God invented mankind because he loved silly stories. - Ralph Steadman

All men equal in rights and duties, all men equally responsible for the destiny of mankind - what a dream! - Leon Bourgeois

The creation of Physics is the shared heritage of all mankind. East and West, North and South have equally participated in it. - Abdus Salam

No man is so great as mankind. - Theodore Parker

Of course, mankind has made giant steps forward. However, what we know is really very, very little compared to what we still have to know. - Fabiola Gianotti

I shall endeavour still further to prosecute this inquiry, an inquiry I trust not merely speculative, but of sufficient moment to inspire the pleasing hope of its becoming essentially beneficial to mankind. - Edward Jenner

A new, a vast, and a powerful language is developed for the future use of analysis, in which to wield its truths so that these may become of more speedy and accurate practical application for the purposes of mankind than the means hitherto in our possession have rendered possible. - Ada Lovelace

Because of the vulgar advent, I decided to give way and, by dark and cryptic sentences, tell of the causes of the future mutation of mankind; especially the most urgent ones, and the ones I perceived, and in a manner that would not upset their fragile sentiments. - Nostradamus

I hesitate to predict whether this theory is true. But if the general opinion of Mankind is optimistic then we're in for a period of extreme popularity for science fiction. - David Eddings

The head of every family will be what Abraham was, the patriarch, the priest and the unlettered lord of his family, and Reason will be the code of laws to all mankind. - Adam Weishaupt

Nothing would be more profitable to us than a right history of mankind. - Adam Weishaupt

The greatest of all crimes are the wars that are carried on by governments, to plunder, enslave, and destroy mankind. - Lysander Spooner

All the forms of civil polity have been tried by mankind, except one, and that seems to have been reserved in Providence to be realized in America. - Ezra Stiles

Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition. - Henry Clay

I sometimes think God allows Great Britain to be unprincipled for the good of mankind. - Julia Ward Howe

One whom the infernal gods of Hannibal will cause to be reborn, terror of mankind; never more horror nor worse days in the past than will come to the Romans through Babel. - Nostradamus

Almost certainly, however, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind. - Norman Borlaug

All the food we eat - every grain of rice and kernel of corn - has been genetically modified. None of it was here before mankind learned to cultivate crops. The question isn't whether our food has been modified, but how. - Michael Specter

Family life is the backbone of mankind, and that life is dependent upon mutual giving, sharing, and receiving from each other. It entails the proper use of each other's successes and failures for mutual up-building. - Mother Angelica

'Never again' is the rallying cry for all who believe that mankind must speak out against genocide. - Jon Corzine

We are the poorest and weakest state in the world, occupying the lowest position in international affairs; the rest of mankind is the carving knife and the serving dish, while we are the fish and the meat. - Sun Yat-sen

And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution, upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of all mankind, and the gracious favor of Almighty God. - Salmon P. Chase

The histories of mankind are histories only of the higher classes. - Thomas Malthus

Numerous studies have shown that global warming can actually be beneficial to mankind. - Jim Inhofe

Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea. - Madalyn Murray O'Hair

I travel to Cambodia, Thailand, Bali, and Nairobi for my charities: Somaly Mam and Friends to Mankind. - Serinda Swan

I've done every kind of touring known to mankind. I've played the big and the small places. - Julian Lennon

Racist assumptions, ethnolinguistic assumptions of inferiority or superiority, are as old as mankind. - Ben Domenech

According to the now almost universally accepted theory, all the races of mankind had a common origin. - Ellsworth Huntington

That idea of peace and love toward humanity shouldn't be nationalistic or denominational. It should be a chief concern for all mankind. - Mos Def

Visions describe what best should be, could be - if and when mankind has the will to make them real. - James Rouse

Women are the reason why mankind exists. Let's give them their due. - Abhinav Shukla

The common class of mankind are actuated by no nobler principle than that of self-interest; this and this alone determines all adventurers in privateers: the owners, as well as those whom they employ. - John Paul Jones

Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind. - John Tillotson

One of the greatest threats to mankind today is that the world may be choked by an explosively pervading but well camouflaged bureaucracy. - Norman Borlaug

Scientific thought and its creation is the common and shared heritage of mankind. - Abdus Salam

War is the greatest failure of mankind. - Aaron Huey

Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts. - Plotinus

Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up. - Alfred North Whitehead

A desire of gain is common to mankind, and the general motive to business and industry. - Oliver Ellsworth

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

Equal and united people can above all become a part of the civilization toward which mankind is moving. If we cannot be at the head of the column leading to such a civilization, there is certainly no need for us to be at is tail. - Slobodan Milosevic

We leave as we came and, god willing, as we shall return, with peace, and hope for all mankind. - Gene Cernan

Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other. - Victor Hugo

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books. - Thomas Carlyle

The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest. - Sophocles

To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed. - Samuel Johnson

Man is unable to see himself entirely unrelated to mankind, neither is he able to see mankind unrelated to life, nor life unrelated to the universe. - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

I think provincialism is an endemic characteristic with mankind, I think everybody everywhere is provincial, but it is particularly striking with Texans, and we tend to be very Texcentric. - Molly Ivins

We liberals do sometimes forsake our vows of compassion for all mankind. - Molly Ivins

I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself. - Michel de Montaigne

He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below. - Lord Byron

All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. - Henry Ward Beecher

Truth is of no practical value to mankind save as it affects terrestrial phenomena, hence the discoveries of science should be concealed or glossed over wherever they conflict with orthodoxy. - H. P. Lovecraft

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up. - George Santayana

In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity. - D. H. Lawrence

The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind. - Benjamin Disraeli

This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it. - Voltaire

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