Quotes about 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.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What important is man should live in righteousness, in natural love for mankind.
- Bob Marley
By the fall a poison was handed to mankind through a woman [Eve], by the Redemption man was given salvation also through a woman [Mary].
- St. Augustine
I hold that while a man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.
- Abraham Lincoln
There is no distrust of men and mankind in me. They will answer before God, so why should I worry?
- Mahatma Gandhi
All that man has to say or do that can possibly concern mankind is in some shape or other to tell the story of his love-to sing, and, if he is fortunate and keeps alive, he will be forever in love.
- Henry David Thoreau
A man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.... There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government.
- Samuel Johnson
If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture.
- Oscar Wilde
The nature of the leadership spirit is the inherent desire of all mankind to control and regulate both environment and circumstance.
- Myles Munroe
I am at peace with God and all mankind.
- Harriet Tubman
Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures peace is our gift to each other.
- Elie Wiesel