Mankind

* Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
Thomas Jefferson


* I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.
Thomas Jefferson


* The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.
Thomas Jefferson


* Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.
Mark Twain


* Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.
John F. Kennedy


* My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth. George Washington


* Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind. Theodore Roosevelt


* If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve? John Adams

* The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion. Thomas Paine


* Our true nationality is mankind. H. G. Wells

* Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.' Immanuel Kant


* Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. Bertrand Russell


* Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind. Albert Schweitzer


* Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind. Robert Louis Stevenson


* The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and it is rewarded as such. Og Mandino


* Mankind is a single body and each nation a part of that body. We must never say 'What does it matter to me if some part of the world is ailing?' If there is such an illness, we must concern ourselves with it as though we were having that illness. 
Kemal Atatürk