Gordon B. Hinckley Quotes

We are living in a Golden Age, the most gilded Golden Age of human history—not only of past history, but of future history.

The positive aspects of modernity are to be acknowledged unreservedly: we are all grateful for the marvellous possibilities that it has opened up for mankind and for the progress in humanity that has been granted to us.

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

However, we all share the firm belief in the triumph of humanist and progressive values that mankind has achieved during its long history of struggle and creativeness.

It is common to think of our own time as standing on the apex of human history.

Maybe it's because I look into the future professionally, but I see great possibilities for both humanity and our planet. I don't believe the thriving of one has to come at the expense of the other, and I'm deeply concerned to find out whether other people do think that.

Humanity today possesses sufficient economic, cultural and spiritual resources to introduce a better global order.

We are running ourselves into a damaged earth. But I am optimistic. I believe that we can change; we must change. As a human race, we are very young and quite primitive. The sooner we learn the greatness of humanity the better off we will all be.

Think about it for a brief moment. Suspend disbelief. Wind the clock forward 100 years. Do you think, as a species, we will still be struggling with the things that vex us today? Will we still be arguing about the same stuff? We will still be eating Cocoa Puffs? We are at the end of the beginning.

I have this feeling that as time goes on, we're not getting any more civilized, and we should be. We're still running around like the days of Genghis Khan. There are so many important, better things to do and we need to encourage people to reach into the brighter side of humanity and not encourage people to continue to glorify the darker side.

I think America has a brilliant future.

… the biography of mankind

Something must be done to save humanity! A better world is possible!

Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction.

My belief in the growth and permanence of democracy is undimmed. I know that the people will cast off the new dictatorship as they did the old. I believe as firmly as in my youth that humanity will surmount the era of poverty and war. Life will be happier and more beautiful for all. I believe in the GOLDEN AGE.

But while I'm realistic about our challenges, I'm optimistic about our future. There are a few things, and if we do them, we're going to have the greatest era in our history. And I have detailed what those things are specifically.

Ah, in every age there is always some new wonder to astound mankind until they grow accustomed to it and lose interest.

The days are gone when a country can issue orders to other peoples. Today, mankind needs culture, ideas and logic.

Science is the future of mankind.

Let us labor for that larger comprehension of truth, and that more thorough repudiation of error, which shall make the history of mankind a series of ascending developments.

Humanity lived many years and ruled the earth, sometimes wisely, sometimes well, but mostly neither.

Reading recent history is good to humble yourself, and also to feel some hopefulness that there is progress.

The history of mankind, the history of salvation, passes by way of the family.

How great seems human progress when we consider where it began, and how insignificant, when we contemplate the goals for which itstrives.

Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.