Families are the Nurseries of all Societies; and the First combinations of mankind. — Cotton Mather Copy Share Image
Ambition, old as mankind, the immemorial weakness of the strong. — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
General and abstract ideas are the source of the greatest errors of mankind. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Biologically, man is still the great amateur of the animal kingdom; he is unique in his lack of anatomical and physiological specialization. — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
If animals could talk, they would tell us that the human beings should be simply more simple and less complicated. — Jean-Paul Malfatti Copy Share Image
That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind. — Frank Moore Colby Copy Share Image
For all mankind that unstained scroll unfurled, Where God might write anew the story of the World. — Edward Everett Hale Copy Share Image
Whatever Nature has in store for mankind, unpleasant as it may be, men must accept, for ignorance is never better than knowledge. — Enrico Fermi Copy Share Image
A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery… — Nigel Calder Copy Share Image
It is true that I am not one of those who laugh at utopias. The utopia of today can become the reality… — Charles Albert Gobat Copy Share Image
If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a brave man, -… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
I see the liberty of the individual not only as a great moral good in itself (or, with Lord Acton, as the… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Never should the power of an individual be allowed to impede the progress of the rest of the nation; never should the… — Leon Bourgeois Copy Share Image
Mankind is divided into two basic sorts: those who find the unknown future threatening ... and those who find it thrilling. The… — Spider Robinson Copy Share Image
Once you have a truly massive amount of information integrated as knowledge, then the human-software system will be superhuman, in the same… — Douglas Lenat Copy Share Image
Even if nothing worse than wasted mental effort could be laid to the charge of theology, that alone ought to be sufficient… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
To far too many, science is a four-letter word, and under the modern media's false equivalency standards, a handful of skeptics are… — Christine Pelosi Copy Share Image
How can anyone think so insanely that the human life has the same value and mankind, the same morality, independent of numbers?… — Pentti Linkola Copy Share Image
“I have always lived in a world in which I'm just a spot in history. My life is not the important point.… — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
Knowing what [Christ] knew , knowing all about mankind--ah! who would have thought that the crime is not so much to make… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
As science is more and more subject to grave misuse as well as to use for human benefit it has also become… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race. All through history, mankind has been bullied by scum. Those who… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As it often happens that the best men are but little known, and consequently cannot extend the usefulness of their examples a… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
That is at bottom the only courage that is demanded of us: to have courage for the most strange, the most singular… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
The profession of shaman has many advantages. It offers high status with a safe livelihood free of work in the dreary, sweaty… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
It is [children] who are God's presence, promise and hope for mankind. — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind forward. — Igor Sikorsky Copy Share Image