mankind

God has enough timeless resources for all mankind.

I have always admired brave men and women who endured the test time.

We can find peace among ourselves, when we find peace with nature.

We are an inspiration to one another.

Human welfare depends on healthy ecosystems.

There is nothing in which mankind have been more unanimous [founding nations upon superstition]; yet nothing can be inferred from it more than this, that the multitude have always been credulous, and the few artful. The United States of America have exhibited, perhaps, the first example of governments erected on the simple principles of nature: and if men are now sufficiently enlightened to disabuse themselves of artifice, imposture, hypocrisy, and superstition, they will consider this event as an era in their history... [T]he detail of the formation of the American governments... may hereafter become an object of curiosity. It will never be pretended that any persons employed in that service had any interviews with the gods, or were in any degree under the inspiration of heaven... it will for ever be acknowledged that these governments were contrived merely by the use of reason and the senses... Thirteen governments thus founded on the natural authority of the people alone, without a pretence of miracle or mystery, which are destined to spread over the northern part of that whole quarter of the globe, are a great point gained in favour of the rights of mankind.[A Defence of the Constitutions of the United States of America, 1787]

All who are not lunatics are agreed about certain things. That it is better to be alive than dead, better to be adequately fed than starved, better to be free than a slave. Many people desire those things only for themselves and their friends; they are quite content that their enemies should suffer. These people can be refuted by science: mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else. If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy.

We learn from education, experience and people.

I cannot here withhold the statement that optimism, where it is not merely the thoughtless talk of those who harbor nothing but words under their shallow foreheads, seems to me to be not merely an absurd, but also a really wicked, way of thinking, a bitter mockery of the most unspeakable sufferings of mankind.

Mankind, in all his lusts, punishes himself. The gods have to do very little.

A human being can only take so much when their basic rights as a citizen of the earth are being denied to them _ or sold at a high cost.

Suffering is the common lot of man.

History is indeed more than the register of crime,folilies and misfortune of mankind.

Peace, love and beauty are goals shared by every human heart. The question is whether our minds recognize them as such.

The graveyard is every man final resting place.

Every gift you give, will multiply a hundred-fold.

You live not only for yourself but for others.

Every man ought to plant a tree.