Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In a world wracked by hatred, economic crisis, and political tension, America remains mankind's best hope. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“Mankind will not be perfect until it can create and destroy like God. It can already destroy: that's half the battle.” — Alexander Dumas Copy Share Image
“People are like the tall grasses of the field. They will bend in whatever direction the wind blows.” — Molly Collier Copy Share Image
Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share… — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
The bulk of mankind have indeed, in all countries in their turn, been made the prey of ambition. — Mercy Otis Warren Copy Share Image
I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The goal of the World Federalists is peace through unity of government. We must support their vision of oneness in diversity, for… — Jean Stapleton Copy Share Image
I would point out that if you're a believer in the Bible, one would have to say the Great Flood is an… — Joe Barton Copy Share Image
It is possible to analyze the biological and social influences that make each human being unique, unprecedented, and unrepeatable, but this analysis… — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
“Women are no sheep. Women are no fragile showpiece to be placed above the fire-place. Women of the thinking society are the… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I wish to add my mite towards expounding & interpreting the Almighty, & his laws & works, for the most effective use… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
The common class of mankind are actuated by no nobler principle than that of self-interest; this and this alone determines all adventurers… — John Paul Jones Copy Share Image
Madame de Staël thought it was pride in mankind to endeavour to penetrate the secret of the universe; and speaking of the… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
It is confidently expected that the period is at hand, when man, through ignorance, shall not much longer inflict unnecessary misery on… — Robert Owen Copy Share Image
If everyone is a hero, then disasters and atrocities lose their meaning. It's only when certain people are heroes and others are… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
By consequence I hold that no one ever did, or can do, anything for "society."... Comte invented the term altruism as an… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
“Pick a leader who will make their citizens proud. One who will stir the hearts of the people, so that the sons… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
I refuse to accept the cynical notion that nation after nation must spiral down a militaristic stairway into the hell of thermonuclear… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
To expect that the intricacies of science will be pierced by a careless glance, or the eminences of fame ascended without labour,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There are two ways of dealing with nonsense in this world. One way is to put nonsense in the right place; as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“For such is the noble nature of man, that his heart will never wholly lose itself in one single passion or idol,… — Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy Copy Share Image
In the desert prepare the way for the LORD; make straight in the wilderness a highway for our God. Every valley shall… — Isaiah Copy Share Image
All the forms of civil polity have been tried by mankind, except one, and that seems to have been reserved in Providence… — Ezra Stiles Copy Share Image
The Saviour of mankind Himself, in whose blameless life malice could find no act to impeach, has been called in question for… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Love is the most durable power in the world. This creative force is the most potent instrument available in mankind's quest for… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
All honor to the noble women that have devoted earnest lives to the intellectual needs of mankind! — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
I am even grateful to Einstein and others because through their erroneous theories they lead mankind away from that dangerous path I… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
God is less careful than General Motors, for He floods the world with factory rejects. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Mankind is considered (by the radical environmentalists) the lowest and the meanest of all species and is blamed for everything. — Dixie Lee Ray Copy Share Image
Surely the church is a place where one day's truce ought to be allowed to the dissensions and animosities of mankind. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
We pass thoughts around, from mind to mind, so compulsively and with such speed that the brains of mankind often appear, functionally,… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
The kind of people a person gets in his or her network is only the net work done with his or her… — Anuj Somany Copy Share Image
The discovery of nuclear reactions need not bring about the destruction of mankind any more than the discovery of matches. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“God’s master-plan is made up of our individual assignments whose collective objective is to impact mankind positively.” — D.S. Mashego Copy Share Image
Fight on land and sea All men want to be free If they don't never mind we'll abolish all mankind — Peter Weiss Copy Share Image
Without ethics, man has no future. This is to say, mankind without them cannot be itself. Ethics determine choices and actions and… — John Berger Copy Share Image
“It’s an already inside outside, The philosophers say it’s the soul But it’s not the soul: it’s the animal or the man… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions. — John Locke Copy Share Image
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