241 Quotes About Humankind

People can be divided into two classes: those who go ahead and do something, and those who sit still and inquire, why wasn't it done the other way?

Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, ''I did not give it to the man, but to humanity.

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

We are, to put it mildly, in a mess, and there is a strong chance that we shall have exterminated ourselves by the end of the century. Our only consolation will have to be that, as a species, we have had an exciting term of office.

What science cannot tell us, mankind cannot know.

Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else.

I am not an Athenian, nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.