Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral: a thing as simple and specious as a statue to… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
They act as if they supposed that to be very sanguine about the general improvement of mankind is a virtue that relieves… — John Morley Copy Share Image
I know this now. Every man gives his life for what he believes. Every woman gives her life for what she believes.… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
The Bible contains the revelation of the will of God. It contains the history of the creation of the world, and of… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
“Uncontrolled human imagination turning into reality may bring about the end of mankind.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
I will lead mankind into a new world! You cannot kill me! No man can murder me! — Cesare Borgia Copy Share Image
Mankind is divided into two classes: those who, being artificial, praise nature, and those who, being natural, praise art. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Let our weakness be what it will, mankind will still be weaker; and whilst there is a world, 'tis woman that will… — John Vanbrugh Copy Share Image
So strong is this propensity of mankind to fall into mutual animosities, that where no substantial occasion presents itself, the most frivolous… — James Madison Copy Share Image
... but that's what mankind is like: they only prize what they no longer possess. — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
Through sex, mankind may attain the great spiritual illumination which will transform the world, which will light up the only path to… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
Through all of history mankind has ingested psychedelic substances. Those substances exist to put you in touch with spirits beyond yourself, with… — Ray Manzarek Copy Share Image
A rational nature admits of nothing but what is serviceable to the rest of mankind. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The future of poetry is immense, because in poetry, where it is worthy of its high destinies, our race, as time goes… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
By educating the young generation along the right lines, the People's State will have to see to it that a generation of… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The Human body is sacred - the veritable tabernacle of the Divine Spirit which inhabits it. It is a solemn duty of… — Stephen L. Richards Copy Share Image
Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and a sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery. — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
The nine-to-five is one of the greatest atrocities sprung upon mankind. You give your life to a function that doesn't interest you.… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Mankind's history has proved from one era to another that the true criterion of leadership is spiritual. Men are attracted by spirit.… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
There are no more useful members in a commonwealth than merchants. They knit mankind together in a mutual intercourse of good offices,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Each of us is born with a share of purity, predestined to be corrupted by our commerce with mankind, by that sin… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
There are but three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the warrior and the poet. To know, to kill and to create.… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
