Whatever evils either reason or declamation have imputed to extensive empire, the power of Rome was attended with some beneficial consequences to… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The first Care in building of Cities, is to make them airy and well perflated; infectious Distempers must necessarily be propagated amongst… — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
From a scientific perspective there is some indication that a nuclear war could deplete the earth's ozone layer or, less likely, could… — Herman Kahn Copy Share Image
Because we live in a largely free society, we tend to forget how limited is the span of time and the part… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
It is good for man To try all changes, progress and corruption, powers, peace and anguish, not to go down the dinosaur's… — Robinson Jeffers Copy Share Image
For in this century, within the next decades, will be decided for generations whether all mankind is to become Communist, whether the… — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share Image
Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The epoch of doubt and transition during which the Greeks passed from the dim fancies of mythology to the fierce light of… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
“A goal of this book has been to tear down in some small part these barriers to understanding by attempting to shatter… — G. Arnell Williams Copy Share Image
Want compassion is not to be numbered among the general faults of mankind. The black ingredient which fouls our disposition is envy.… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
The strongest and most evil spirits have to date advanced mankind the most: they always rekindled the sleeping passions - all orderly… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We shall have to share out the fruits of technology among the whole of mankind. The notion that the direct and immediate… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
If man is not made in the image of God, nothing then stands in the way of inhumanity. There is no good… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
THIS law of nature, being co-eval with mankind and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other.… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
If men pride themselves on the fact that Jesus Christ was born of their sex, the answer is that this was necessary… — Marie de Gournay Copy Share Image
Anyone who ever studied mankind by listening to them was self-deluded. The first thing they should have done was to answer the… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
We believe no more in Bonaparte's fighting merely for the liberties of the seas than in Great Britain's fighting for the liberties… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I'm fascinated by mankind. I grew up watching 'Candid Camera' and thought it was funnier than any standup, any joke, anything that… — Howie Mandel Copy Share Image
Is mankind alone in the universe? Or are there somewhere other intelligent beings looking up into their night sky from very different… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
We should also leave behind discrimination, because it is narrow-minded and ignorant, denies contact and warmth; and corrodes mankind's belief that we… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
I regard the Masonic institution as one of the means ordained by the Supreme Architect to enable mankind to work out the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
But is an enemy so execrable that tho in captivity his wishes and comforts are to be disregarded and even crossed? I… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Whoever makes two ears of corn, or two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before, deserves better of mankind,… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
In recent times, modern science has developed to give mankind, for the first time in the history of the human race, a… — Karl Taylor Compton Copy Share Image
It is an error common to many to take the character of mankind from the worst and basest amongst them; whereas, as… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
History teaches us no race, no people, no nation has ever been freed through cowardice, through cringing, through bowing and scraping, but… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
Eve doubted God, and I as a child of God am now to be exactly the opposite: I am to believe him.… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
[The poet] must write as the interpreter of nature and the legislator of mankind, and consider himself as presiding over the thoughts… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There is so much each one of us can do to make a difference. We are at a dangerous juncture in the… — Bianca Jagger Copy Share Image
It must be remembered that there is no real reason to expect anything in particular from mankind; good and evil are local… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
An Actor is an interpreter of other men's words, often a soul which wishes to reveal itself to the world but dare… — Alec Guinness Copy Share Image
Intolerance of oppression, the desire to be free and develop one personality to its full limits, is not enough to make one… — Errico Malatesta Copy Share Image
...Perses, hear me out on justice, and take what I have to say to heart; cease thinking of violence. For the son… — Hesiod Copy Share Image
You may count on Mexico's support, since your commitment to the noblest causes of mankind and your vast experience are and will… — Vicente Fox Copy Share Image
The entire universe is God's cosmic motion picture, and that individuals are merely actors in the divine play who change roles through… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
There are times when words seem empty and only actions seem great. Such a time has come, and in the Providence of… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a… — William Winwood Reade Copy Share Image
If global warming is such a bad thing, then why is it taking out all of mankind's competitors? It just seems to… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
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