All the entertainment and talk of history is nothing almost but fighting and killing: and the honour and renown that is bestowed… — John Locke Copy Share Image
I must walk toward Oregon, and not toward Europe. And that way the nation is moving, and I may say that mankind… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Two orders of mankind are the enemies of church and state; the king without clemency, and the holy man without learning. — Saadi Copy Share Image
The god of the Christians, as we have seen, is the god who makes promises only to break them; who sends them… — Johann Most Copy Share Image
I expected this reception. All men hate the wretched; how, then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things!… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If experiments on animals were abandoned on grounds of compassion, mankind would have made a fundamental advance. — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
This position will not be disputed, so long as it is admitted that the desire of reward is one of the strongest… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Resort to science has rendered modern war so destructive of life and property that it presents a new problem to mankind, such,… — John Hessin Clarke Copy Share Image
The book is second only to the wheel as the best piece of technology human beings have ever invented. A book symbolises… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Sun and moon and day and night and man and beast each with a splendor which man in all his vileness cannot… — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Nothing has a greater tendency to lessen the reverence which mankind ought to have for the Supreme Being, than a careless repetition… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
Do not take too artificial a view of mankind but judge them from a natural standpoint, deeming them neither over good nor… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
I do not overlook the fact that there are irrationalists who love mankind, and that not all forms of irrationalism engender criminality.… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Free improvisation, in addition to being a highly skilled musical craft, is open to use by almost anyone-beginners, children, and non-musicians. The… — Derek Bailey Copy Share Image
I firmly believe, that before many centuries more, science will be the master of man. The engines he will have invented will… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
The obligations of law and equity reach only to mankind; but kindness and beneficence should be extended to the creatures of every… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
A man's true wealth hereafter is the good he has done to his fellowmen. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
No man of honor, as the word is usually understood, did ever pretend that his honor obliged him to be chaste or… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I am convinced that there can be no regeneration of mankind until laughter is put down. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Science has an uncomfortable way of pushing human beings from center stage. In our prescientific stories, humans began as the focal point… — Seth Lloyd Copy Share Image
Our lives are more like fragmentary dreams than the enactments of conscious selves. We control very little of what we most care… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Deep down the consciousness of mankind is one. This is a virtual certainty because even in the vacuum matter is one; and… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
