If out of all mankind one finds a single friend, he has found something more precious than any treasure, since there is… — Andreas Capellanus Copy Share Image
...convince all nuclear powers, including those which have been more reluctant up to now, of the necessity to respect the "vital interests"… — Alfonso Garcia Robles Copy Share Image
Its guilt therefore in these cases, is not to be measure by its effects on the happiness of mankind; nor is it… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
Did blind chance know that there was light and what was its refraction, and fit the eyes of all creatures after the… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
The most desirable state of mankind is that which maintains general security with the smallest encroachment upon individual independence. — William Godwin Copy Share Image
“The first time the extent of this problem was obvious to me was when I was hanging out with a small group… — Simone Collins Copy Share Image
Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock. Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient world to… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism. In heroism, we feel, life's… — William James Copy Share Image
There are those who do not hold that there is any innate goodness to mankind. To them I say, had you lived… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
Mankind owns its destiny, and its destiny is the earth. We are destroying it until we have no destiny. — Frida Kahlo Copy Share Image
The majority of mankind would seem to be beguiled into error by pleasure, which, not being really a good, yet seems to… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is not what you can do for your country, but what you can do for all of mankind. — Mike Norton Copy Share Image
“One of mankind’s greatest ironies is the inbred passion to seize great things, while simultaneously walking through life blithely tossing great things… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
The most ultimately righteous of all wars is a war with savages, though it is apt to be also the most terrible… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Through all history, from the beginning, a noble army of martyrs have fought fiercely and fallen bravely for that unseen mistress, their… — George William Curtis Copy Share Image
If ever there was a cause, if ever there can be a cause, worthy to be upheld by all of toil or… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
“Shall we their fond pageant see? Lord, what fools these mortals be!” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The progress of mankind is due exclusively to the progress of natural sciences, not to morals, religion or philosophy. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Consider, I pray, whether you are not renouncing all shame and sincerity to advance such principles. Because a comet appears in a… — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
The experience of treaties being broken with impunity provide an afflicting lesson to mankind how little dependence is to be placed on… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Many short-sighted fools think that going to the Moon was just a stunt. But the astronauts knew the meaning of what they… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The Lord of Learning who upraised mankind from being silent brutes to singing men. — Charles Godfrey Leland Copy Share Image
Ingenious philosophers tell you, perhaps, that the great work of the steam-engine is to create leisure for mankind. Do not believe them;… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Because we live in a largely free society, we tend to forget how limited is the span of time and the part… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
A state arises,as I conceive,out of the needs of mankind;no one is self-sufficing,but all of us have many wants — Plato Copy Share Image
