Mankind Quotes

Opposite to godliness is atheism in profession, and idolatry in practice. Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind, that it never had many professors.

Isaac Newton

PracticeNeverProfessorsMankind

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

HopeMomentTrustInspireMankind

Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty.

Samuel Adams

FreeEarthLibertyMankindLeftOur

It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead.

Larry Ellison

LeadMankindOnlyMicrosoftHaving

Happy indeed is the scientist who not only has the pleasures which I have enumerated, but who also wins the recognition of fellow scientists and of the mankind which ultimately benefits from his endeavors.

Irving Langmuir

HappyRecognitionMankindBenefits

Diversity is really a richness for mankind.

Fabiola Gianotti

DiversityMankindRichnessReally

War is something of man's own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer there.

A. A. Milne

ManWarOwnMankindSomethingThen

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

Jim Inhofe

Global WarmingMankindGlobalStudies

One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.

Max Beerbohm

GreatSayTwoGuestsMankindWell

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

PowerOpinionPersonMoreMankind

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

Simon Wiesenthal

TechnologyHatredMankindGreatest

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

Molly Ivins

CompassionSometimesMankindOur

The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.

Ludwig von Mises

GovernmentBadWorstEndureMankind

Mankind is considered (by the radical environmentalists) the lowest and the meanest of all species and is blamed for everything.

Dixie Lee Ray

EnvironmentalEverythingMankind

What important is man should live in righteousness, in natural love for mankind.

Bob Marley

LoveLiveManImportantMankind

Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.

Plotinus

MankindMidwayGodsBetweenBeasts

A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants.

Plato

OutMankindUsStateNeedsMany

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

Thomas Jefferson

MoreRightSufferMankindThan

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

Thomas Carlyle

ThoughtMagicDoneLyingMankind

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

Li Lu

HistoryEnergyFindingMankindVast

Mankind advances only through struggle.

Gustav Stresemann

StruggleThroughMankindOnly

It will be said, however, that protection tends to destroy commerce, the civilizer of mankind. Directly the reverse, however, is the fact.

Henry Charles Carey

SaidWillProtectionMankindDestroy

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.

George Washington

GovernmentOwnMankindLeftUnfit

Those who profess the faith of Life regard the ideals of mankind as an expression of man's higher needs. Ideals which were once incentives to development thus become a drag upon it whenever life's needs demand new forms that are not recognised by the prevailing idealism.

Ellen Key

LifeFaithManNewBecomeMankind

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