“The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind.” — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Don't ever sell mankind short by saying there's anything they can't do. — Fredric Brown Copy Share Image
Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
How could you fear a dearth? Have not mankind tho' slain by millions, millions left behind? — Joel Barlow Copy Share Image
Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way to the common… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law,… — John Locke Copy Share Image
My ideal, indeed, can be put into a few words, and that is: to preach unto mankind their divinity, and how to… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Whoever in prayer can say, 'Our Father', acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole race of mankind. — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
If Euclid's point, though incapable of being drawn by any human agency, has an imperishable value, my picture has its own for… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If no God, mankind is a set of bi-pedal carbon units of mostly water. And nothing else — Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The cure for the Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice and Eric Garner tragedies is not education or exposure. It's the Gospel.… — Benjamin Watson Copy Share Image
World federalists hold before us the vision of a unified mankind living in peace under a just world order... The heart of… — U Thant Copy Share Image
“And yet is not mankind itself, pushing on its blind way, driven by a dream of its greatness and its power upon… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
There is no society or conversation to be kept up in the world without good-nature, or something which must bear its appearance… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
All equally see in the convulsion in America an era in the history of the world, out of which must come in… — Charles Francis Adams, Sr Copy Share Image
Let us labor for that larger comprehension of truth, and that more thorough repudiation of error, which shall make the history of… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
The history of mankind is a perennial tragedy; for the highest ideals which the individual may project are ideals which he can… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Thank God I have four sons. The mother/daughter relationship is one of mankind's great mysteries, and for womankind, it can be hellaciously… — Melissa Gilbert Copy Share Image
We profess to be republicans, and yet we neglect the only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government; that… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
I recently discussed with an intelligent and well-disposed man the threat of another war, which in my opinion would seriously endanger the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Mankind occurs as male or female, as something or nothing. Woman has no share in ontological reality, no relation to the thing-in-itself,… — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by a difference of sentiments in religion appear to… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Now that physics is proving the intelligence of the universe what are we to do about the stupidity of mankind? I include… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Religion is as necessary to reason as reason is to religion. The one cannot exist without the other. A reasoning being would… — George Washington Copy Share Image
God extends his grace to his people (and mankind in general) when he destroys the wicked, because in destroying the wicked, he… — Andrew Sandlin Copy Share Image
Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension; when he does not torment himself with childish guilt feelings,… — Joshua L. Liebman Copy Share Image
Take mankind in general, they are vicious-their passions may be operated upon. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
I represent the jolly mass of mankind. I am the happy and reckless Christian. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“If mankind's destined to bite the bullet, let's bite it and be damned.” — Darren Shan Copy Share Image