Home / Topics / Mankind Quotes

Mankind Quotes

Browse 4898 quotes about Mankind.

Mankind Quotes

“The same technology transforming our lives can solve the greatest problem of the 20th century. A security shield can one day render nuclear weapons obsolete and free mankind from the prison of nuclear terror. America met one historic challenge and went to the Moon. Now America must meet another: to make our strategic defense real for all the citizens of planet Earth.”

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1986

“I happened to read recently a remark by the American nuclear physicist W. Davidson, who noted that the explosion of one hydrogen bomb releases a greater amount of energy than all the explosions set off by all countries in all wars known in the entire history of mankind. And he, apparently, is right.”

War Country Energy Known Greater Happened Mankind Amount Nuclear Release Bombs Physicist Remarks Explosions Hydrogen Hydrogen Bomb

Author:Nikita Khrushchev

“Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts. And the way to make sure it never starts is to abolish the dangerous costly nuclear stockpiles which imprison mankind.”

Knows World Way War Certain Winning Mankind Dangerous Killing Nuclear Giants Ethical Infant Abolish Atomic War

Author:Omar N. Bradley

“The discovery of nuclear reactions need not bring about the destruction of mankind any more than the discovery of matches.”

Needs Mankind Discovery Destruction Nuclear Reactions

Author:Albert Einstein

“The world's deteriorating ecology poses as great a danger to mankind today as did the nuclear standoff between the superpowers at the height of the Cold War.”

World War Today Mankind Danger Cold Nuclear Height Ecology Cold War Superpower Deteriorating Standoffs

Author:Mikhail Gorbachev

“Procrustes in modern dress, the nuclear scientist will prepare the bed on which mankind must lie; and if mankind doesn’t fit—well, that will be just too bad for mankind. There will have to be some stretching and a bit of amputation—the same sort of stretching and amputations as have been going on ever since applied science really got going into its stride, only this time they will be a good deal more drastic than in the past. These far from painless operations will be directed by highly centralized totalitarian governments.”

“I perfectly understand the particular attention which you pay to the question of nuclear energy, and fully realize the possible dangers and catastrophes which might result for mankind from an irresponsible attitude. In this field my wish is for Iran to put all her efforts towards the peaceful use of atomic energy. We shall continue to co-operate with all the nations of the world to attain this end in the interests of human society.”

“Along with the possibility of extinction of mankind by nuclear war, the central problem of our age has therefore become the contamination of man's total environment with such substances of incredible potential for harm-substances that accumulate in the tissues of plants and animals and even penetrate the germ cells to shatter or alter the very material of heredity upon which the shape of the future depends.”

Source: Silent Spring

“The solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind.”

Heart Problem Lying Mankind Solutions Nuclear Nuclear Weapons Physicist Atomic Bomb Solution To A Problem Nuclear Bomb Nuclear Proliferation Nuclear Energy World Problems Atomic War

Book:The Impact of modern scientific ideas on society: in commemoration of Einstein

Source: The Impact of modern scientific ideas on society: in commemoration of Einstein

“I have never met anyone who built a bomb shelter and felt protected by it. I have never met a modern military man who did not realize that military victory is a concept which became obsolete with the coming of the nuclear age, and most civilians realize this also. Wisdom demands that we stop preparing to wage a war which would eliminate mankind - and start preparing to eliminate the seeds of war.”

Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

“In view of the fact that in any future world war nuclear weapons will certainly be employed, and that such weapons threaten the continued existence of mankind, we urge the governments of the world to realize, and to acknowledge publicly, that their purpose cannot be furthered by a world war, and we urge them, consequently, to find peaceful means for the settlement of all matters of dispute between them.”

“Mankind spends much more on training pilots of aircraft than it does to train the nuclear reactor operators.”

Doe Mankind Training Train Nuclear Pilots Aircraft Operators Nuclear Reactors

Author:Abdus Salam

“From a scientific perspective there is some indication that a nuclear war could deplete the earth's ozone layer or, less likely, could bring on a new Ice Age - but there is no suggestion that either the created order or mankind would be destroyed in the process.”

War Would Be Age Earth Order Process Mankind Perspective Nuclear Destroyed Ice Layers Suggestions Indication Nuclear War Ice Age Ozone Ozone Layer Ozone Depletion

Book:Thinking Unth 80SP

Source: Thinking Unth 80SP

“I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.”

Source: The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan

“The release of atomic power has changed everything except our way of thinking ... the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. (1945)”

“It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.”

Men Spirit Evil Mankind Easier Nuclear Real Men Evil Spirits Plutonium

Book:Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century

Source: Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century

“When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence. So a man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind.”

Source: Krishnamurti: Reflections on the Self