Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
~ Edward Gibbon
The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.
~ Franz Kafka
Nothing would be more profitable to us than a right history of mankind.
~ Adam Weishaupt
The history of mankind is the history of ideas.
~ Luigi Pirandello
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.
~ John Stuart Mill
The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
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
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
~ Albert Einstein
Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.
~ George Washington
Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.
~ Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
~ William Ralph Inge
A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.
~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca
If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.
~ Joseph Wood Krutch
Mankind is considered (by the radical environmentalists) the lowest and the meanest of all species and is blamed for everything.
~ Dixie Lee Ray
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
~ Joseph Conrad
