There is less misery in being cheated than in that kind of wisdom which perceives, or thinks it perceives, that all mankind… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
The nonchalance and dolce-far-niente air of nature and society hint at infinite periods in the progress of mankind. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Love from its very nature must be transitory. To seek for a secret that would render it constant would be as wild… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
We do not like to be robbed of an enemy; we want someone to hate when we suffer. It is so depressing… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
We have a great objective - the light on the hill - which we aim to reach by working for the betterment… — Ben Chifley Copy Share Image
In short, I conceive that great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by the false estimates they have… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Most human beings strongly believe that money is way less important than the life of a human being, but in reality five… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Regardless of the fact that the express purpose of God's Deluge is to kill off most of mankind--apart, of course, from Noah… — Graham Hancock Copy Share Image
I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most of the avoidable suffering in life springs from our attempts to escape the unavoidable suffering inherent in the fragmentary nature of… — Hugh Kingsmill Copy Share Image
Nobody's perfect. We're all just one step up from the beasts and one step down from the angels. — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
Are you in earnest resolved never to barter your liberty for the lordly servitude of a court, but to live free, fearless,… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
“And what, O Queen, are those things that are dear to a man? Are they not bubbles? Is not ambition but an… — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
The majority, being satisfied with the ways of mankind as they now are (for it is they who make them what they… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Poetry is in itself strength and joy, whether it be crowned by all mankind, or left alone in its own magic hermitage. — John Sterling Copy Share Image
The different religions have never overlooked the part played by the sense of guilt in civilization. What is more, they come forward… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Language is mankind’s greatest invention – except, of course, that it was never invented. — Guy Deutscher Copy Share Image
“As for man, his days are numbered, whatever he might do, it is but wind.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the New Testament it is taught that willing and voluntary service to others is the highest duty and glory in human… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
Deceit for personal gain is one of history's most recurring crimes. Man's first step towards change would be thinking, counter-arguing, re-thinking, twisting,… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
The time must come inevitably when mankind shall surmount the imbecility of religion, as it has surmounted the imbecility of religion's ally,… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
It is the art of mankind to polish the world, and every one who works is scrubbing in some part. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness. — Jean Paul Copy Share Image
Drive my dead thoughts over the universe Like withered leaves to quicken a new birth! And, by the incantation of this verse,… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
