My affections were first for my own country, then, generally, for all mankind — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
History is the "know thyself" of humanity - the self-consciousness of mankind. — Johann Gustav Droysen Copy Share Image
The public pleasures of far the greater part of mankind are counterfeit. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It's not a certain society that seems ridiculous to me, it's mankind, — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
It is nobler to love the person next to you than to love mankind in general. — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
Constantly working outward, putting system after system inside the known universe, they were the bright hungry wave of mankind reaching out to… — Algis Budrys Copy Share Image
There is no distrust of men and mankind in me. They will answer before God, so why should I worry? — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A person may be qualified to do greater good to mankind and become more beneficial to the world, by morality without faith… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
It is not at all incredible, that a book which has been so long in the possession of mankind should contain many… — Joseph Butler Copy Share Image
Mankind is not a tribe of animals to which we owe compassion. Mankind is a club to which we owe our subscription. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
What is a miracle?--'Tis a reproach, 'Tis an implicit satire on mankind; And while it satisfies, it censures too. — Edward Young Copy Share Image
“It is not female egotism to say that the future of mankind may very well be ours to determine. It is a… — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share Image
Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The plain fact is religion must die for mankind to live. The hour is getting very late to be able to indulge… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
I was taught in my Introduction to Anthropology [course in college], it is not just the great works of [hu]mankind that make… — Laurie Colwin Copy Share Image
Money does not represent such a value as men have placed upon it. All my money has been invested into experiments with… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
What I find most injurious to mankind in modern advertising is the constant appeal to material standards and values, the elevating of… — Ann Bridge Copy Share Image
“The ultimate evil is the weakness, cowardice, that is one of the constituents of so much human nature. When, rarely, unalloyed nobility… — John Simon Copy Share Image
The god of the Christians, as we have seen, is the god who makes promises only to break them; who sends them… — Johann Most Copy Share Image
I do know middle age can bring greater depth, greater wisdom, greater capacity for love, greater capacity for relationship, greater consciousness and… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Men are qualified for civil liberties in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their appetites: in proportion as… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Nobody is fit to rule anybody else. It is not alleged that Mankind is perfect, or that merely through his/her natural goodness… — Albert Meltzer Copy Share Image
Though there is a benevolence due to all mankind, none can question but a superior degree of it is to be paid… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Young man, two are the forces most precious to mankind. The first is Demeter, the Goddess. She is the Earth -- or… — Euripides Copy Share Image
That one indeed is a man who, today, dedicateth himself to the service of the entire human race. The Great Being saith:… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Really, one of us ought to have the courage to call the experiment off and shoulder the responsibility for the decision, but… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
In the so-called civilized world, children are physically, sexually and/or emotionally abused; they are the leaders of our future. When children are… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
“When the great ship containing the hopes and aspirations of the world, when the great ship freighted with mankind goes down in… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The ancients had little doubt about the true shape of the earth: "It's [the world's] shape has the rounded appearance of a… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
A man has generally the good or ill qualities which he attributes to mankind. — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
“Judged against eternity, how little of what agitates us makes any difference.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Your Lord is bountiful to mankind: yet most of them do not give thanks. — Elijah Muhammad Copy Share Image
All mankind rules its women, and we rule all mankind, but our women rule us. — Cato the Elder Copy Share Image