“Pursuing money is tantamount to pursuing personal convenience. Pursuing personal convenience is an inconvenience to God’s greater purpose for mankind.” — D.S. Mashego Copy Share Image
There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only… — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
It would be naive to think that the problems plaguing mankind today can be solved with means and methods which were applied… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
Again, the male is by nature superior, and the female inferior; and the one rules, and the other is ruled; this principle,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
After all, for mankind as a whole there are no exports. We did not start developing by obtaining foreign exchange from Mars… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
“Mankind is flawed and to place absolute faith in it and it's understandings is flawed itself.” — Chase Racek Copy Share Image
Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it! — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
Mankind invented a system to cope with the fact that we are so intrinsically lousy at manipulating numbers. It's called the graph. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The desire of reward is one of the strongest incentives of human conduct; ... the best security for the fidelity of mankind… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
...It would be more consistent that we call [the Bible] the work of a demon than the word of God. It is… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
In the history of thought and culture the dark nights have perhaps in some ways cost mankind less grief than the false… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
My mother is currently associating with some undesirables who are attempting to transform her into an athlete of sorts, deprave specimens of… — John Kennedy Toole Copy Share Image
A new breed of Republicans has taken over the GOP. It is a new breed which is seeking to sell to Americans… — Jackie Robinson Copy Share Image
It is difficult to love mankind unless one has a reasonable private income, and when one has a reasonable private income one… — Hugh Kingsmill Copy Share Image
Comedy naturally wears itself out - destroys the very food on which it lives; and by constantly and successfully exposing the follies… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The truly and deliberately evil men are a very small minority; it is the appeaser who unleashes them on mankind; it is… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The prospect Smiler was a manic farmer. Few men I think can have been as unfortunate as he; for on the one… — Laurie Lee Copy Share Image
I believe in humanity - not just you or Mother, but all mankind. Do I sound like a preacher or a cheap… — F. Sionil José Copy Share Image
“But as records of courts of justice are admissible, it can easily be proved that powerful and malevolent magicians once existed and… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
It is for the good of nations, and not for the emolument or aggrandizement of particular individuals, that government ought to be… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
[Internet] technology, like anything else that mankind creates is a tool and that tool can be used for good or for evil,… — Rainn Wilson Copy Share Image
All mankind is one volume. When one man dies, a chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a… — John Donne Copy Share Image
That wise Men have in all Ages thought Government necessary for the Good of Mankind; and, that wise Governments have always thought… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Mankind's self-alienation has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order. — Jerry Mander Copy Share Image
Genuine love will always feel urged to communicate joy - to be a joy-giver. Mankind needs joy… — Lawrence G. Lovasik Copy Share Image
What distinguishes man from the brute is his conscious striving to realise the spirit within. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If the dreams of any so-called normal man were exposed ... there would be no more gravity and dignity left for mankind. — Vera Caspary Copy Share Image
The world's five thousand extant languages are products of our shared ability, but the five thousand cultures they create are separate from… — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
“Mankind is a plague. Look at you. You rape and pillage, you suck the Earth dry and kill all your kindred. What… — Sarwat Chadda Copy Share Image
You either choose to view America as the shining city on the hill that inspires the best in all mankind, or you… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced mankind and have enriched the world. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Man is at the bottom an animal, midway a citizen, and at the top divine. But the climate of this world is… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
If all the historic books of the Bible were blotted from the memory of mankind, nothing of value would be lost.. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
We have to acknowledge peace is in danger and mankind still has not realised the priority to be given to world dialogue… — Nursultan Nazarbayev Copy Share Image
The child is the spiritual builder of mankind, and obstacles to his free development are the stones in the wall by which… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The freedom of Mankind does not lie in the fact that can do what we want, but that we do not have… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
I do not wish to be a coward like the father of mankind and throw the blame upon a woman. — Ouida Copy Share Image
We are making our appearance on the stage of mortality in the greatest dispensation of the gospel ever given to mankind, and… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image