Ambition, old as mankind, the immemorial weakness of the strong. — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
Families are the Nurseries of all Societies; and the First combinations of mankind. — Cotton Mather Copy Share Image
General and abstract ideas are the source of the greatest errors of mankind. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Music is the only sensual gratification which mankind may indulge in to excess without injury to their moral or religious feelings. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
We leave as we came and, god willing, as we shall return, with peace, and hope for all mankind. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But then, as far as I know, as far as I've studied or heard or picked up, it seems that this type… — Alex Haley Copy Share Image
It may be broadly stated that…of all animals kept for the recreation of mankind the horse is alone capable of exciting a… — Bret Harte Copy Share Image
All that mankind has ever learned is nothing more than a single grain of sand on a beach that reaches to infinity. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr Copy Share Image
Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man. — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
I find it more than a little disingenuous to act as if keeping slaves was something that set Thomas Jefferson apart from… — Annette Gordon-Reed Copy Share Image
After all, the only thing that is going to save mankind is if enough people live their lives for something or someone… — Leon Uris Copy Share Image
As we grow older we become more conscious of the complexity, incoherence, and unreasonableness of human beings; this indeed is the only… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
In short, I conceive that great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by the false estimates they have… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
This bill, by vesting the power to withhold or terminate Federal funds, creates a concentration of power of economic coercion unequaled in… — Strom Thurmond Copy Share Image
I cannot imagine anything nobler or more national than that for, say, one hour in the day we should all do the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
'There may be some, perhaps - I don't know that there are - who abuse his kindness,' said Mr. Wickfield. 'Never be… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
...he [Muhammad] declared undistinguishing and exterminating war, as a part of his religion, against all the rest of mankind...The precept of the… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
It is the conflicting interests of the man and the woman, the home and the shop, the Church and the State, which… — Max Heindel Copy Share Image
Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It's by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth!… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Actual philosophers... are commanders and law-givers: they say "thus it shall be!", it is they who determine the Wherefore and Whither of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." This sentence alone would save mankind if all books and prophets… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“[..]Although personally, I think cyberspace means the end of our species." Yes? Why is that?" Because it means the end of innovation,"… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
A new danger now beset him [Grotius], the danger of becoming simply a venal pleader, a creature who grinds out arguments on… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
Had I been present at the Creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe. Remarking… — Alfonso X of Castile Copy Share Image
There are forces working in the world as never before in the history of mankind for standardization, for the regimentation of us… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Over the souls of men spread the condor wings of colossal monsters and all manner of evil things prey upon the heart… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
All great musical composers have been connected, consciously or unconsciously, with this source of music-a fact that enabled them to become masters… — Corinne Heline Copy Share Image
The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind forward. — Igor Sikorsky Copy Share Image
Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is [children] who are God's presence, promise and hope for mankind. — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
“Because the mankind very himself is a torturer, he created the concept of hell!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“All the bloodsheds in human history have been caused by men, not women.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image