The world is a bundle of hay, Mankind are the asses who…

The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mankind have been slow to believe that order reigns in the universe-that the world is a cosmos and a chaos.

— James A. Garfield

“If attempting to make the world a civilized one, makes you a bad woman in the eyes of the dumb patriarchal society, then, by…

— Abhijit Naskar

A time will come when the science of destruction shall bend before the arts of peace; when the genius which multiplies our powers, which…

— Francois Arago

Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind.

— Horace

Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Because I have confidence in the power of truth, and of the spirit, I have confidence in the future of mankind.

— Albert Schweitzer

The temptations of God were always more dangerous for mankind than those of Satan.

— Arthur Koestler

A South Korean inventor has finally created the robot that mankind has been waiting for. Scientists who have been worried about the robot apocalypse…

— Mike Pesca

My dreams were always small and puny. All I ever needed was a little house with a little picket fence by the sea. Little…

— Imelda Marcos

You should avoid hedging, at least that's what I think. You should be ashamed to die until you've made some contribution to mankind.

— Vernon Johns

Anybody can be good in the country

— Oscar Wilde

Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou ow'st the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the…

— William Shakespeare

There was only the broad square with the scattered dim moons of the street lamps and with the monumental stone arch which receded into…

— Erich Maria Remarque

There is a way in which the collective knowledge of mankind expresses itself, for the finite individual, through mere daily living . . .…

— Laurens van der Post