Mankind Quotes

It is my earnest hope, and indeed the hope of all mankind, that from this solemn occasion a better world shall emerge out of the blood and carnage of the past…

Mankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser.

Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of the flock should be the persecutor of the other? Is it for you, mankind, to pronounce on what is good and what is evil?

Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself.

There is but one means available to improve the material conditions of mankind: to accelerate the growth of capital accumulated as against the growth in population.

Beer was the driving force that led nomadic mankind into village life.

The passion for power over others can never cease to threaten mankind, and is always sure of finding new and unforseen allies in continuing its martyrology.

But as a Great Power whose greatness is indestructible because it is built not on fear, envy and suspicion, nor won at the expense of others, but founded on hope, trust, friendship and directed to the good of all mankind.

Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.

We know that the Zanj (blacks) are the least intelligent and the least discerning of mankind.