It is the habit of mankind to entrust to careless hope what they long for, and to use sovereign reason to thrust… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
Mankind was not meant to suffer -- bliss is our nature. The individual is cosmic. Let's rock. — David Lynch Copy Share Image
The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
...What will the present chaos lead to? How will it all end? It can only end in one way. Mankind will be… — Meher Baba Copy Share Image
The spirit of liberty is the spirit of him who, near two thousand years ago, taught mankind that lesson it has never… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
If you're anxious to shine in the high aesthetic line as a man of culture rare, you must get up all the… — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
The lucky few who can be involved in creative work of any sort will be the true elite of mankind, for they… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Government, as it was forced upon mankind by their vices, so has it commonly been the creature of their ignorance and mistake. — William Godwin Copy Share Image
The bells which toll for mankind are—most of them, anyway—like the bells of Alpine cattle; they are attached to our own necks,… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
“Music is a mixed mathematical science that concerns the origens, attributes, and distinctions of sound, out of which a cultivated and lovely… — Christoph Wolff Copy Share Image
As long as science fails to discover the sources of life, as long as, on sea or in the sky, there is… — Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer Copy Share Image
No previous civilization has been able to achieve it, nor can we see even in the remote distance, that day of the… — Leon Pinsker Copy Share Image
But the distant hope of being one day useful or eminent ought not to mislead us too far from that study which… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst; every other species of tyranny is limited to the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Our aim is to achieve a socialist system of society, which, by eliminating the division of mankind into classes, by eliminating all… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
The aim of education should not be to teach how to use human energies to improve the environment, for we are finally… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
In this interconnected universe, every improvement we make in our private world improves the world at large for everyone. We all float… — David R. Hawkins Copy Share Image
I do my work easily and joyously. I feel beauty all around me and I see beauty in everyone I meet, for… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
At the root of the Noble Savage myth is this basic truth: the savage is good, but he's also violent. This is… — Bruno Dumont Copy Share Image
My observation of the Universe convinces me that there are beings of intelligence and power of a far higher quality than anything… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Procrustes in modern dress, the nuclear scientist will prepare the bed on which mankind must lie; and if mankind doesn’t fit—well, that… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
If there were only some way of contriving that a state or an army should be made up of lovers and their… — Plato Copy Share Image
Some discouragement, some faintness of heart at the new real future which replaces the imaginary, is not unusual, and we do not… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The constitution regulates our stewardship; the constitution devotes the domain to union, to justice, to defense, to welfare, and to liberty. But… — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
There is only one way to degrade mankind permanently and that is to destroy language. — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
You can become a Communist only when you enrich your mind with a knowledge of all the treasures created by mankind. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom. The two are inseparable partners in the great adventure… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
Progress stems from education, culture, freedom and equality. Without these fundamentals, mankind will flounder. — Matt Chandler Copy Share Image
By paying our other debts, we are equal with all mankind; but in refusing to pay a debt of revenge, we are… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“Better not perceive yourselves too high, O humans. We only value mankind as our experimentation object.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
Opera singing is in every way of inestimable value; a real heritage for all mankind that has been reached over centuries of… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
Mandela is just the eternal man. You want that man to be around forever. It's the closest thing we have to God,… — Anton Corbijn Copy Share Image
Scotch Whisky is about the only thing left that is guaranteed to bring comfort to mankind. — Robert Boothby, Baron Boothby Copy Share Image
Sex, a great and mysterious motive force in human life, has indisputably been a subject of absorbing interest to mankind through the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism. — William James Copy Share Image
What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
I think I did every drug known to mankind, smoked crack, boozed, dropped acid, you name it. — Kid Rock Copy Share Image
No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
