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Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself. Mankind. Basically, it's made up of two separate words---'mank' and 'ind'. What do these words mean It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind.

John Stuart Mill

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.

Ludwig van Beethoven

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

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind... War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

Francis Bacon

Believing that I was born for the service of mankind, and regarding the care of the commonwealth as a kind of common property which, like the air and the water, belongs to everybody, I set myself to consider in what way mankind might be best served, and w

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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

John F. Kennedy

Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes. It can no longer be of concern to great powers alone. For a nuclear disaster, spread by winds and waters and fear, could well engulf the great and the small, the rich and the poor, the committed and the uncommitted alike. Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.

Sophocles

To err from the right path is common to mankind.

Joseph Baretti

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

Samuel Johnson

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

Edmund Burke

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

Fredric Brown

Don't ever sell mankind short by saying there's anything they can't do.

William Hazlitt

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

Thomas Jefferson

The bulk of mankind are schoolboys through life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

All mankind love a lover.

Jonathan Swift

How is it possible to expect mankind to take advice when they will not so much as take warning

Henry David Thoreau

We have within reach, now, the attainment of almost every dream of mankind.

BYRON: _Ch. Harold,_ Canto iii., St. 45.

He who surpasses or subdues mankind Must look down on the hate of those below.

Marquis de Sade

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

Blaise Pascal

All the miseries of mankind come from one thing, not knowing how to remain alone.

Voltaire

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

Neil Armstrong

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

Edward Gibbon

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

Miguel de Cervantes

Liberty is one of the most valuable blessings that Heaven has bestowed upon mankind.

Alexander Pope

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan,The proper study of Mankind is Man.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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.

John Anthony Ciardi

Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it

Mark Beltaire

Strike from mankind the principle of faith and men would have no more history than a flock of sheep.

Thomas Jefferson

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

Igor Sikorsky

The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind ahead even more than teamwork.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The wise only possess ideas the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.

POPE: _Essay on Man,_ Epis. ii., Line 1.

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of mankind is Man.

BUTLER: _Hudibras,_ Pt. iii., Canto ii., Line 1327.

'T is true we've money, th' only power That all mankind falls down before.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.

Bertrand Russell

Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

Henry Van Dyke

There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.

Samuel Adams

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.

Alfred North Whitehead

Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Ted Simon

There are in me the seeds from which, if necessary, the universe could be constructed. In me somewhere there is a matrix for mankind and a holograph for the whole world. Nothing is more important in my life than trying to discover these secrets.

Benjamin Disraeli

Knowledge must be gained by ourselves. Mankind may supply us with the facts but the results, even if they agree with previous ones, must be the work of our mind.

Henry David Thoreau

Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

Adam Clayton Jr. Powell

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.

CRABBE: _The Library,_ Line 69.

Blest be the gracious Power, who taught mankind To stamp a lasting image of the mind!

Albert Einstein

The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking... the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.

GAY: _Fables,_ Pt. ii, Fable 11.

Superior worth your rank requires: For that, mankind reveres your sires; If you degenerate from your race, Their merits heighten your disgrace.

Ronald Reagan

With our eyes fixed on the future, but recognizing the realities of today. ... we will achieve our destiny to be as a shining city on a hill for all mankind to see.

Juan Antonio Samaranch

We peruse one ideal, that of bringing people together in peace, irrespective of race, religion and political convictions, for the benefit of mankind.

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

Music, verily, is the mediator between intellectual and sensuous life... the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

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.

Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects re

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Emotions have taught mankind to reason.

Apathy will be the downfall of mankind, But Who Cares?

The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.

The fates have given mankind a patient soul.

"It was the dawn of the 3d age of mankind, the year the great war came

Beer and women: Two of God's best gifts to mankind.

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.

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

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

The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses.

Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.

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

Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.

Fate rules the affairs of mankind with no recognizable order.

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.

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

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

All for ourselves and nothing for other people seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.

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

One look around us ought to show that all our arbitrary measures and bounds have been clamped on us by mankind.

Whoever in prayer can say, Our Father, acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole race of mankind.

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

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

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

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

Religiously strict people, who judge themselves without mercy, are also those who have most often spoken ill of mankind in general.

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

[Medicine is] a collection of uncertain prescriptions the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.

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

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.

Actuated by the most glorious cause that mankind ever fought in, I am determined to defend this post to the very last extremity.

Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind.

A man can know nothing of mankind without knowing something of himself. Self-knowledge is the property of that man whose passions have their full play, but who ponders over their results.

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

Setting loose on the battlefield weapons that are able to learn may be one of the biggest mistakes mankind has ever made. It could also be one of the last.

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

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.

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