Mankind

Famous quotes containing the word mankind:

“It was mankind that hung on the cross for two thousand years: and a terrible god practiced his cruelty and called it “love.””
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

“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)

“In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)