The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better. - George Orwell
Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other. - Victor Hugo
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
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend. - Beethoven
Invention, using the term most broadly, and imitation, are the two legs, so to call them, on which the human race historically has walked. - William James
