Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures peace is our gift to each other.

In many ways when you're a Nobel peace laureate you have an obligation to humankind to society.

The forces that are driving mankind toward unity and peace are deep-seated and powerful. They are material and natural as well as moral and intellectual.

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.

A book is a fragile creature it suffers the wear of time it fears rodents the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.

The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written as with a sunbeam in the whole volume of human nature by the hand of the divinity itself and can never be erased.

In general mankind since the improvement of cookery eats twice as much as nature requires.

Music is the universal language of mankind.

Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.

Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.

Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities this drives men from their homes this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.

The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind the lawyer all the wickedness the theologian all the stupidity.

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

All mankind love a lover.

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.

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

All mankind is now learning that these nuclear weapons can only serve to destroy never become beneficial.

Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth to make truth laugh because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.

Is it right to probe so deeply into Nature's secrets? The question must here be raised whether it will benefit mankind or whether the knowledge will be harmful.

It has been a privilege to pursue knowledge for its own sake and to see how it might help mankind in more practical ways.

The most wonderful study of mankind is man. Relieving human suffering and diffusing universal knowledge is humanitarian.

A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind.