Only the tiniest fracton of mankind want freedom. All the rest want someone to tell them theyare free. — Irving Layton Copy Share Image
I'd be a dog, a monkey, or a bear, or anything but that vain animal who is so proud of being rational. — John Wilmot Copy Share Image
The most desirable state of mankind is that which maintains general security with the smallest encroachment upon individual independence. — William Godwin Copy Share Image
Mankind is one, seeing that all are equally subject to the moral law. All men are equal in God's eyes. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
No, my friend. We are lunatics from the hospital up the highway, psycho-ceramics, the cracked pots of mankind. Would you like me… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
“It is its sanctification of the base human instincts that makes Islam the menace of all mankind” — B.S. Murthy Copy Share Image
Nature holds no brief for the human experiment; it must stand or fall by its results. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“He mad no moral judgements. He accepted mankind as he found it, and looked for the profit to be made from its… — Wilbur A. Smith Copy Share Image
It is impossible for us, who live in the latter ages of the world, to make observations in criticism, morality, or in… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed, in view… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The creation continues incessantly through the media of man. But man does not create...he discovers. Those who look for the laws of… — Antoni Gaudí Copy Share Image
These [religious ideas] are given out as teachings, are not precipitates of experience or end-results of thinking: they are illusions, fullfilments of… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The result of these ungodly unions was a race of very wicked and very powerful hybrid (half-fallen angel, half-human) offspring - the… — Chuck Missler Copy Share Image
That was the real secret of the Tarahumara: they'd never forgotten what it felt like to love running. They remembered that running… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
Heroism, or military glory, is much admired by the generality of mankind. They consider it as the most sublime kind of merit.… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Fate has ordained that the men who went to the Moon to explore in peace will stay on the moon to rest… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
Al Gore likes to say that mankind puts 70 million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every day. What he probably… — Roy Spencer Copy Share Image
“The supernatural Christ of the New Testament, the god of orthodox Christianity, is dead. But priestcraft lives and conjures up the ghost… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is but one means available to improve the material conditions of mankind: to accelerate the growth of capital accumulated as against… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“This is God's universe and he is the master gardener of all. If we were to eliminate all colors in his garden,then… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
I expected this reception. All men hate the wretched; how, then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things!… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The sense that the meaning of the universe had evaporated was what seemed to escape those who welcomed Darwin as a benefactor… — R. J. Hollingdale Copy Share Image
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Books, the oldest and the best,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
That man is formed for social life is an observation which, upon our first inquiry, presents itself immediately to our view, and… — Joseph Warren Copy Share Image
I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The Bible: a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalise mankind. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Not only virtue, but also insight, not only sanctity but also wisdom, are the duties and tasks of mankind. — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
Music to me is mankind's greatest possible achievement because look at all the good it does. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Motherhood is near to divinity. It is the highest, holiest service to be assumed by mankind. It places her who honors its… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To amend mankind, moralists should show them man, not as he is, but as he ought to be. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
“Do not the legislators and their agents form a part of the human race? Do they consider that they are composed of… — Frédéric Bastiat Copy Share Image
The whole of mankind's progress has had to be achieved against the resistance and opposition of the state and its power of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Omnicompetence,' the ability to obtain whatever one wants or needs, is an unattainable but continuously approachable ideal for all mankind - past,… — Russell L. Ackoff Copy Share Image
Peace depends ultimately not on political arrangements but on the conscience of mankind. — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
A cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I believe in what Max Muller said years ago, namely, that truth needed to be repeated as long as there were men… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“They say God appeared in history and used it for his purposes, but if that was so he had no pity for… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
“On that day, mankind received a grim reminder. We lived in fear of the Titans and were disgraced to live in these… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Because I have confidence in the power of truth, and of the spirit, I have confidence in the future of mankind. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image