Mankind

Famous quotes containing the word mankind:

“I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.”
—Molière [Jean Baptiste Poquelin] (1622–1673)

“For if the proper study of mankind is man, it is evidently more sensible to occupy yourself with the coherent, substantial and significant creatures of fiction than with the irrational and shadowy figures of real life.”
—W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965)

“There is no alleviation for the sufferings of mankind except veracity of thought and of action, and the resolute facing of the world as it is when the garment of make-believe by which pious hands have hidden its uglier features is stripped off.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)