Today, the need to avoid confusing marriage with other types of unions based on weak love is especially urgent. It is only the rock of total, irrevocable love between a man and a woman that can serve as the foundation on which to build a society that will become a home for all mankind.
Incivility is the extreme of pride; it is built on the contempt of mankind.
The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.
All nonstate threats to life, liberty, and property appear to be relatively petty and therefore can be dealt with. Only states can pose truly massive threats, and sooner or later the horrors with which they menace mankind invariably come to pass.
In many parts of the world the people are searching for a solution which would link the two basic values: peace and justice. The two are like bread and salt for mankind.
It is for the benefit of mankind to mitigate the horrors of war as much as possible.
Here is the basic question: Are we marionettes, or are we creatures of free will who just happen to have a lot of jerky reflexes?
The fact that everybody in the world dreams every night ties all mankind together.
It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
Every year a thousand kilometers of motor-roads will be opened until the greatest work in the history of mankind is completed.
Mankind can be very magnanimous, given the chance.
The passion for power over others can never cease to threaten mankind, and is always sure of finding new and unforseen allies in continuing its martyrology.
Mankind, I hazard, wherever found, Civilized or Savage, cannot keep to any purpose for much length of time, except the purpose of destroying himself.
The anchor of all my dreams is the collective wisdom of mankind as a whole.
I conclude that, while it is true that science cannot decide questions of value, that is because they cannot be intellectually decided at all, and lie outside the realm of truth and falsehood. Whatever knowledge is attainable, must be attained by scientific methods; and what science cannot discover, mankind cannot know.
. . . Perses, hear me out on justice, and take what I have to say to heart; cease thinking of violence. For the son of Kronos, Zeus, has ordained this law to men: that fishes and wild beasts and winged birds should devour one another, since there is no justice in them; but to mankind he gave justice which proves for the best.
One of mankind's problems is we keep committing the same errors.
In civilized society we all depend upon each other, and our happiness is very much owing to the good opinion of mankind.
Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.