Nothing would be more profitable to us than a right history of mankind.

- Adam Weishaupt

The proper study of Mankind is Man.

- Alexander Pope

The proper study of mankind is books.

- Aldous Huxley

Comforts and syphilis are the greatest enemies of mankind.

- Alexis Carrel

Scientific thought and its creation is the common and shared heritage of mankind.

- Abdus Salam

Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.

- Adam Clayton

To the mass of mankind religion of some kind is a necessity.

- Alfred Russel Wallace

If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures.

- Alfred Korzybski

With the first commandment, Mohammed tried to imprison common sense. And with the second commandment, the beautiful, romantic side of mankind was enslaved.

- Ayaan Hirsi Ali

National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

- Alfred North Whitehead

Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

- Alfred North Whitehead

War is something of man's own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer there.

- A. A. Milne

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.

- Alexander Pope

The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.

- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all.

- Aleister Crowley

We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

- Albert Einstein

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

- Albert Einstein

I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- Abigail Adams