Mankind apparently find it easier to drive away adversity than to retain prosperity. — Thucydides Copy Share Image
“Perfection in art is a crime against humanity. Perfect humanity in crime is art” — Dean Cavanagh Copy Share Image
...the incredulity of mankind, who do not truly believe in anything new until they have had actual experience of it. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“Mankind is close to savagery and must live by rules. If not, we would sink into our own animal nature and perish.” — Noah Gordon Copy Share Image
Art does not exist for itself; it is but an avenue through and by which humanity expresses itself. — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share Image
“It seemed as if humans had lost the ability to make their own fun.” — Laura Whitcomb Copy Share Image
Who invented the human heart, I wonder? Tell me, and then show me the place where he was hanged. — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
“It seemed humans, the scientifically minded ones at least, were either tempting death or trying to prolong life. Surely that was an… — Kady Cross Copy Share Image
I think that if you're writing about the human condition, my God, you've got to start at base: point zero, point one,… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
It is easy for a man who sits idle at home, and has nobody to please but himself, to ridicule or censure… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
To the intelligent man with an interest in human nature it must often appear strange that so much of the energy of… — Edward Thorndike Copy Share Image
The doctrine that 'human rights' are superior to 'property rights' simply means that some human beings have the right to make property… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Any situation in which some men prevent others from engaging in the process of inquiry is one of violence;… to alienate humans… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
“Even now, after a lifetime of human companionship, I am hard-pressed to understand fully mankind's fascination with those little marks that they… — Sally Smith O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“Where there is a tacit convention that principles are not to be disputed; where the discussion of the greatest questions which can… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Humans are remarkable: the first species in almost four billion years of life on earth that dominates the biosphere. This gives us… — David Christian Copy Share Image
Many of you would like to take evil and step on it, destroying it like you would a bug. Squish, smash! Begone… — Barbara Marciniak Copy Share Image
“This incarnation of the Son of God, this taking upon himself the very nature of man, this uniting himself through the body… — A.A. Hodge Copy Share Image
What has not been clear is that the potential of this emergency-born technology has always accrued to human's prewar individual initiatives taken… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
“A saving grace of the human condition (if I may phrase it like that) is a sense of humor. Many writers and… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
If we consider the superiority of the human species, the size of its brain, its powers of thinking, language and organization, we… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
“In every known culture, humans experience joy, sadness, disgust, anger, fear, and surprise. In every known culture, these emotions are indicated by… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
