To all mankind – may we never find space so vast, planets so cold, heart and mind so empty that we cannot fill them with love and warmth. – Garth Star Trek: The Original Series, ‘Dagger of the Mind’.
In Best We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last. – John F. Kennedy Final speech to the United Nations, September 20, 1963.
The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt. – Henry George
Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition. – Henry Clay
The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind. – H. L. Mencken
All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. – Henry Ward Beecher
In the evolution of mankind there has always been a certain degree of social coherence. – Herbert Read
The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful is the cause of half their errors. – John Stuart Mill
I work very much on the principle that anything created by mankind has mischief and error hardwired into its inception. – Jasper Fforde
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. – Henry David Thoreau
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
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. – Joseph Conrad
All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move. – Benjamin Franklin
I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things. – Benjamin Franklin
If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures. – Alfred Korzybski
According to the now almost universally accepted theory, all the races of mankind had a common origin. – Ellsworth Huntington
