The one thing I have absolute faith in is mankind's capacity to make things worse. No matter how bad it gets, we're… — Mira Grant Copy Share Image
History shows that great economic and social forces flow like a tide over communities only half conscious of that which is befalling… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Measured by the standards of men of their time, [the Pilgrims] were the humble of the earth. Measured by later accomplishments, they… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I see the liberty of the individual not only as a great moral good in itself (or, with Lord Acton, as the… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
How to obtain freedom has been, and is, mankind's most important quest. — John Pugsley Copy Share Image
While we honour religion and believe it to be a powerful factor in elevating our race, we discriminate, as we hope our… — Tennessee Celeste Claflin Copy Share Image
Dear Lord and Father of mankind, Forgive our foolish ways! Re-clothe us in our rightful mind, In purer lives thy service find,… — John Greenleaf Whittier 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
Mandela is just the eternal man. You want that man to be around forever. It's the closest thing we have to God,… — Anton Corbijn Copy Share Image
All God's religions ... have not been able to put mankind back together again. — John Cage Copy Share Image
The world's equilibrium hath been upset through the vibrating influence of this most great, this new World Order. Mankind's ordered life hath… — Bahá'u'lláh Copy Share Image
Men cannot abandon their religious faith without a kind of aberration of intellect and a sort of violent distortion of their true… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Cut off as I am, it is inevitable that I should sometimes feel like a shadow walking in a shadowy world. When… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Omit a few of the most abstruse sciences, and mankind's study of man occupies nearly the whole field of literature. The burden… — George Finlayson 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
The most practical, the most dignified way of going on in the world is to take people at their word, when you… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
You can have compassion for someone who is suffering and try to help this person but if your relationship with mankind is… — Pascal Bruckner Copy Share Image
The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law,… — John Locke Copy Share Image
But even friendship like our heroes' Exist no more; for we've outgrown All sentiments and deem men zeroes-- Except of course ourselves… — Alexander Pushkin Copy Share Image
Temples have their images; and we see what influence they have always had over a great part of mankind. But, in truth,… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
If everyone is a hero, then disasters and atrocities lose their meaning. It's only when certain people are heroes and others are… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
[In-group exclusivism has] killed more human beings and destroyed more cities and villages than all the epidemics, hurricanes, storms, floods, earthquakes, and… — Pitirim Sorokin Copy Share Image
Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Mankind, the spirit of the earth, the synthesis of individuals and peoples, the paradoxical conciliation of the element with the whole, and… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
“Say to yourself, I am perfect, the way I am. Say to yourself, I am beautiful the way I am. Say to… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The foolish race of mankind are swarming below in the night; they shriek and rage and quarrel - and all of them… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
If mankind is to escape its programmed self-extinction the God who saves us will not descend from the machine: he will rise… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
At present, there can be little doubt that the whole of mankind is in mortal danger, not because we are short of… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
You can believe that he was taught to love and respect all mankind - but to fear no man. — Wellington Mara Copy Share Image
Only from the perspective of such a utopia is it possible to use the concepts of pessimism and optimism with full justification:… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Everything is boring, boredom is the other epidemic which is making Europe ripe for decline. Boredom is the end product of each… — Iwan Goll Copy Share Image
The truth is that art does not teach; it makes you feel, and any teaching that may arise from the feeling is… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
LOVE of others is the appreciation of one's self. MAY your egotism be so gigantic that you comprise mankind in your self-sympathy. — Mina Loy Copy Share Image
“I do what I do because I love God, as I love your children, as I love humanity, as I love peace,… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image