I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability.

Oscar Wilde

We hold these truths to be self evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Thomas Jefferson

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.

Blaise Pascal

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

Mahatma Gandhi

Could anything be absurder than a man? The animal who knows everything about himself - except why he was born and the meaning of his unique existence.

Storm Jameson

Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.

Samuel Butler

Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.

Henri Bergson

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.

Bertrand Russell

One of the most secure markets in the world is human nature, few understand it, all have it.

Jason Zebehazy

The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

Arthur C. Clarke

That's absolutely how I am. Like race, black or white - I see absolutely no difference. Because for me it's just such a reality. You are human, I am human, let's try to accept one another for whatever we are.

Neve Campbell

Man is but a foundling in the cosmos, abandoned by the forces that created him.

Carl Becker

And mankind is naught but a single nation.

Quran

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.

Samuel Johnson

The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.

John Stuart Mill

Shy and unready men are great betrayers of secrets: for there are few wants more urgent for the moment than the want of something to say.

Sir Henry Taylor

An individualist is one who pays his taxes with a smile.

Al Diamond

Man may be considered as a superior species of animal that produces philosophies and poems in about the same way a silkworm produces their cocoons and bees their hives.

Hippolyte Taine

It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.

James Fenimore Cooper

I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.

Joseph Baretti

Something in human nature causes us to start slacking off at our moment of greatest accomplishment. As you become successful, you will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of balance, humility, and commitment.

H Ross Perot

It is good for man To try all changes, progress and corruption, powers, peace and anguish, not to go down the dinosaur's way Until all his capacities have been explored: and it is good for him To know that his needs and nature are no more changed, in fact, in ten thousand years than the beaks of eagles.

Robinson Jeffers

Human beings, like plants, grow in the soil of acceptance, not in the atmosphere of rejection.

Sir John Powell

You are also caught with the fact that man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the nightmare experiences of his spiritual pilgrimage.

Morris West

Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakest creatures; but associated with his kind, he works wonders.

Daniel Webster

Man cannot live by incompetence alone.

Charlotte Whitton

The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.

Thomas Paine

Every man is his own ancestor, and every man is his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past.

Frederick Henry Hedge

Men are only as loyal as their options.

Bill Maher

We must be our own before we can be another's.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I never yet heard man or woman much abused that I was not inclined to think the better of them, and to transfer the suspicion or dislike to the one who found pleasure in pointing out the defects of another.

Jane Porter

All the rarest hues of human life take radiance and are rainbowed out in tears.

Gerald Massey

Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.

Mark Twain

It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.

Mark Twain

The fates have given mankind a patient soul.

Homer

Man may penetrate the outer reaches of the universe, he may solve the very secret of eternity itself, but for me, the ultimate human experience is to witness the flawless execution of a hit-and-run.

Branch Rickey

Some of mankind's most terrible misdeeds have been committed under the spell of certain magic words or phrases.

James Bryant Conant

One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly.

Maureen Dowd

To deny our own impulses is to deny the very thing that makes us human.

Andy and Larry Wachowski

Mankind, in the gross, is a gaping monster, that loves to be deceived, and has seldom been disappointed.

Henry Mackenzie

So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.

Andre Gide

My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times, men would not stop to ask for directions.

Elayne Boosler

The 'highest' states of mind held up before mankind by christianity as of supreme value, are actually forms of convulsive epilepsy.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Morality is the greatest of all tools for leading mankind by the nose.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.

John F. Kennedy

Our cause is noble; it is the cause of mankind!

George Washington

If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind, whom should we serve?

John Adams

Fate rules the affairs of mankind with no recognizable order.

Seneca

I love mankind; it's people I can't stand.

Charles M. Schulz

I know the answer! The answer lies within the heart of all mankind! The answer is twelve? I think I'm in the wrong building.

Charles M. Schulz

All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.

John Locke

Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Rudyard Kipling

People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.

G. K. Chesterton

Music--the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge, which comprehends mankind, but which mankind cannot comprehend.

Ludwig van Beethoven

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

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

Joseph Conrad

If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago.

William Hazlitt

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

Albert Einstein

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

No true and permanent fame can be founded except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.

Charles Sumner

The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.

Bertrand Russell

The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.

H. L. Mencken

What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.

Joseph Conrad

There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind.

Joseph Conrad

I hate mankind, for I think of myself as one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.

Samuel Johnson

The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Patents will not stand in the way of producing the drug for mankind.

Franz Humer

Mankind will only accept the easy things when they finally find out how difficult it is to accept them.

Dirceu Alves Ferreira

No one has the right to change Paris, the protesters say, and argue that the city is the patrimony of all mankind.

John Vinocur

The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.

Marquis De Sade

If you're going to write about things that are as old as mankind, you've got to find a new, fresh way to write about them, to make people interested. Winchell found a way.

Pete Hamill

Loving your enemies does not mean you have to agree with or accept what they do. You can still love all of mankind and be outspoken for what you believe.

Bethany Jane Andrews Hoey

There is a way in which the collective knowledge of mankind expresses itself, for the finite individual, through mere daily living... a way in which life itself is sheer knowing.

Laurens Van der Post

The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses.

Edith Sodergran

Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

Samuel Johnson

To live in mankind is far more than to live in a name.

Vachel Lindsay

I conceive the essential task of religion to be 'to develop the consciences, the ideals, and the aspirations of mankind'.

Robert Millikan

Even in civilized mankind faint traces of monogamous instincts can be perceived.

Bertrand Russell

That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

Neil Armstrong

Essentially it seems mankind has passed the point of 'environmental sustainability' upon which economic and social sustainability depends.

John Burnett

It was probably the greatest singular human endeavor, certainly in modern times, maybe in the history of all mankind.

Gene Cernan

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

Jon Corzine

I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.

Walt Whitman

The history of mankind is the history of ideas.

Luigi Pirandello

In the history of mankind, fanaticism has caused more harm than vice.

Louis Kronenberger

Music is the universal language of mankind.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Ingratitude is treason to mankind.

James Thomson

Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.

Adam Clayton

A scholar is the favorite of Heaven and of earth; The excellence of one's country, The happiest of mankind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

No man has come to true greatness who has not felt that his life belongs to his race, and that which God gives to him, He gives him for mankind.

Phillips Brooks

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.

Edward Gibbon

Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for competitors.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind, such as cars that won't start.

Larry McMurtry

It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world. The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens.

Baha'u'llah

Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind.

Mikhail Gorbachev

With this hip-hop generation — they think about who has gold teeth, instead of the destiny of mankind.

Orlando Jones

Sex, a great and mysterious motive force in human life, has indisputably been a subject of absorbing interest to mankind through the ages.

William J. Brennan, Jr.

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

John Tillotson

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.

Joseph Addison

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

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

William Congreve

Families are the Nurseries of all Societies; and the First combinations of mankind.

Cotton Mather

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

Larry Ellison

There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

Logan Pearsall Smith

The Holocaust was a unique event in the history of mankind, and the kinds of experiments that were conducted on human beings by Nazis and their henchmen ... are beyond comparison, and I think the lieutenant governor would agree with that.

Art Abramson

No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.

John Stuart Mill

Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

H. P Lovecraft

And of all plagues with which mankind are cursed, ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst.

Daniel Defoe

The society of mankind is getting into irrationality. The fundamentals are not right.

Hans Bender

He was one of the finest men I have ever met. Totally unassuming. He was a kind and a wonderful example of mankind, really. He was as fine a man as there ever was.

Glen Robertson

The soul is subject to health and disease, just as is the body. The health and disease of both . . . undoubtedly depend upon beliefs and customs, which are peculiar to mankind.

Maimonides

How could you fear a dearth? Have not mankind tho' slain by millions, millions left behind?

Joel Barlow

It's never killed a single person in the history of mankind and there's no reason it should be illegal.

Christopher Seekins

The end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind.

Manly Hall

Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.

Plato

All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.

Jack Kerouac

Investors have been very patient with the biotech industry, which has been one of the biggest money-losing industries in the history of mankind. The cumulative loss by this industry from its inception in 1976 is nearing $100 billion.

Arthur D. Levinson

A little kindness between people is better than a great love of mankind.

Richard Dehmel

It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.

Friedrich Von Schlegel

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

Ludwig Von Mises

It would be the first time in the history of mankind that a pandemic has been stamped out before it happened.

William Aldis

The histories of mankind are histories only of the higher classes.

Thomas Robert Malthus

Democracy is the common pursuit of mankind, and all countries must earnestly protect the democratic rights of the people.

Jinato Hu

It is the most common abnormality that mankind has.

Dr. Ron Bush

Only the wise possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The history of mankind is confined within a limited period, and from every quarter brings an intimation that human affairs have had a beginning.

Adam Ferguson

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear. And the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.

H. P. Lovecraft

Never in the history of mankind have so many owed so much to so few.

Sir Winston Churchill

It has rejuvenated my faith in mankind in a big way.

John Weaver

An Arabian narrative art that applies to all mankind.

Naguib Mahfouz

If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation.

Xenophon

No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the people, and what God has given them he gives it for mankind.

Phillips Brooks

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

William Lyon Mackenzie King

It is the true nature of mankind to learn from mistakes, not from example.

Fred Hoyle

Your deeds exceed the power of human imagination. They are without equal in the history of mankind. How can we (the German people) ever thank you?

Leni Riefenstahl

Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.

Alphonse De Lamartine

Apollo, Athena, these are characters out of Greek mythology-we used a lot of the Egyptian mythology, as well. And we tapped into the premise of, you know, Who is mankind? Where did we evolve from?

Richard Hatch

Mankind has survived all catastrophes. It will also survive modern medicine.

Gerhard Kocher

The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Aleister Crowley

Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.

Robert Frank

Eugene Aram, though a thief, a liar, and a murderer, / Yet, being intellectual, was amongst the noblest of mankind.

C. S. Calverley

The proper study of mankind is woman.

Henry Adams

If there is True Evil in this World, it Lies in the Heart of Mankind.

Edward Morrison

Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.

Elie Wiesel

If mankind minus one were of one opinion, then mankind is no more justified in silencing the one than the one - if he had the power - would be justified in silencing mankind.

John Stuart Mill

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

Eugene Cernan

She was a spiritual leader, not a celebrity, who I feel gave her life, as Martin gave, to service mankind.

Edythe Scott Bagley

Such to me is the new image of aging: growth in self and service for all mankind.

Ethel Percy Andrus