Mankind is supposed to have evolved in the treetops. But I have examined my sense of balance, the prehensility of my various… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Religious discord has lost her sting; the cumbrous weapons of theological warfare are antiquated: the field of politics supplies the alchymists of… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
In order to improve the condition of mankind all men must be given the certainty of security through the exchange of safeguards,… — Antoine Pinay Copy Share Image
We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable; that all men are created equal and independent, that from that equal creation… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If you trace the history of mankind, our evolution has been mediated by technology, and without technology it's not really obvious where… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
Literature is a human apocalypse, man's revelation to man, and criticism is not a body of adjudications, but the awareness of that… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
If anybody asks what Sufism is, what kind of religion is it, the answer is that Sufism is the religion of the… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
Seeing clearly within himself and always able to dodge around the ends of any position, including his own, Shaw assumed from the… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
...America didn't have to fight scarcity and we all felt guilty before people who still had to struggle for bread and freedom… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Very sacred is the vocation of the artist, who has to do directly with the works of God, and interpret the teaching… — Jason 'J' Brown Copy Share Image
When every autumn people said it could not last through the winter, and when every spring there was still no end in… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
“It sounds like a fairy-tale, but not only that; this story of what man by his science and practical inventions has achieved… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
For the Humanist, . . . head and heart . . . must function together. . . . The constitution of the… — Corliss Lamont Copy Share Image
The French Revolution, Fichte's Theory of Knowledge, and Goethe's Wilhelm Meister are the three greatest tendencies of the age. Whoever takes offence… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
What are wanted ...are not Constitutions and Revolutions, nor all sorts of Conferences and Congresses, nor the many ingenious devices for submarine… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
As the fisherman depends upon the rivers, lakes and seas and the farmer upon the land for his existence, so does mankind… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
Suspicious princes often promote the last of mankind, from a vain persuasion that those who have no dependence except on their favor… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The U.S. is the great enemy of mankind! Against those hyenas there is no option but extermination! If the nuclear missiles had… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
The fate of mankind, as well as religion, depends on the emergence of a new faith in the future. Armed with such… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
A lot of us don't want to be quite that serious about world problems. Our life is there to enjoy, not to… — Robert Sheckley Copy Share Image
The practical revolutionary will understand Goethe's 'conscience is the virtue of observers and not of agents of action'; in action, one does… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
Happy contractedness of youth, nay, of mankind in general, that they think neither of the high nor the deep, of the true… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Man desired concord; but nature knows better what is good for his species; she desires discord. Man wants to live easy and… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The Bhagavad-Gita is the most systematic statement of spiritual evolution of endowing value to mankind. It is one of the most clear… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The beauty of the world and the orderly arrangement of everything celestial makes us confess that there is an excellent and eternal… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
He who, conscious of being strong, is content to be weak, he shall be the paragon of mankind. Being the paragon of… — Laozi Copy Share Image
The loathing of mankind is a force that surprises and overwhelms one, fed by hundreds of springs concealed his subconsciousness. One only… — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure... they govern us in all we do, in… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
I wrote my thesis on the benefits of war and very near got thrown out of college. But I can show you… — Don Young Copy Share Image
Even like as St. Paul was converted, just so are all others converted; for we all resist God, but the Holy Ghost… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The male has more teeth than the female in mankind, and sheep and goats, and swine. This has not been observed in… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Let us then realize our limitations. We are something and we are not everything. Such being as we have conceals from us… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
All truth is one. In this light, may science and religion endeavor here for the steady evolution of mankind, from darkness to… — Clifford Stoll Copy Share Image
The money pigs of capitalist democracy: Money has made slaves of us. Money is the curse of mankind. It smothers the seed… — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
My first wish is to see this plague of mankind banished from the earth, and the sons and daughters of this world… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Indeed, there is much in pure humanitarian culture, as opposed to rigid scientific training, which encourages absorption in the affairs of mankind,… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
We must learn the difficult lesson that the future of Mankind will only be tolerable when our course, in world affairs as… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Storytelling, a primitive art, is as old as the beginning of mankind. People want to receive what's out there in the form… — Lee Gutkind Copy Share Image
Greek philosophers considered sport a religious and civic-in a word, moral-undertaking. Sport, they said, is morally serious because mankind's noblest aim is… — George Will Copy Share Image
