Mankind

Famous quotes containing the word mankind:

    “I did not know that mankind was suffering for want of gold.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Comedy naturally wears itself out—destroys the very food on which it lives; and by constantly and successfully exposing the follies and weaknesses of mankind to ridicule, in the end leaves itself nothing worth laughing at.”
    —William Hazlitt (1778–1830)

    “mourn

    The majesty and burning of the child’s death.
    I shall not murder
    The mankind of her going with a grave truth
    Nor blaspheme down the stations of the breath”
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)