Mankind quotes and words of wisdom

"A man has generally the good or ill qualities which he attributes to mankind."
Shenstone


"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."
Dr. Samuel Johnson


"I love mankind; it"s people I can"t stand."
Charles M. Schulz


"Mankind will not go astray after having found the right road, unless from disputation."
Prophet Muhammad


"Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government."
George Washington


"No man is so great as mankind."
Theodore Parker


"Our country is the world; our countrymen are mankind."
William Lloyd Garrison


"Our feelings towards the world of mankind, generally, ought to be the same as Jesus manifested to them. He sought to promote their welfare, and our motto ought ever to be the same as his was?"Peace on earth and good will to men:" no matter who they are or what they are, we should week to promote the happiness and welfare of all Adam?s race."
John Taylor


"Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world."
Plutarch


"The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind."
John Stuart Mill


Interesting Quotes

If the aborigine drafted an IQ test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it.Stanley Garn

You are not superior just because you see the world in an odious light.Vicomte de Chateaubriand - French author & politician (1768 - 1848)