To know the origin of words is to know the cultural history of mankind. — Ernest Klein Copy Share Image
My affections were first for my own country, then, generally, for all mankind — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
History is the "know thyself" of humanity - the self-consciousness of mankind. — Johann Gustav Droysen Copy Share Image
The public pleasures of far the greater part of mankind are counterfeit. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The People of the Sunnah are the most knowledgeable of mankind concerning the truth, and the most merciful of the creation towards… — Ibn Taymiyyah Copy Share Image
Mankind will in time discover that unbridled majorities are as tyrannical and cruel as unlimited despots. — John Adams 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
Unless mankind redesigns itself by changing our DNA through altering our genetic makeup, computer-genera ted robots will take over our world. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Historical truth is that, and that alone, which reveals the forces that go to mould the social life of mankind. — Ahad Ha'am Copy Share Image
Mankind are very odd creatures: one half censure what they practice, the other half practice what they censure; the rest always say… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
To me, Islam is mine. Allah is God of all the worlds, and all mankind and all the Alameen. — Everlast Copy Share Image
What is a man if he does not learn from his mistakes? What is humanity if it does not give him that… — Tasmeer Un Nazir Copy Share Image
I wrote my thesis on the benefits of war and very near got thrown out of college. But I can show you… — Don Young Copy Share Image
Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure... they govern us in all we do, in… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
Greek philosophers considered sport a religious and civic-in a word, moral-undertaking. Sport, they said, is morally serious because mankind's noblest aim is… — George Will Copy Share Image
Storytelling, a primitive art, is as old as the beginning of mankind. People want to receive what's out there in the form… — Lee Gutkind Copy Share Image
We must learn the difficult lesson that the future of Mankind will only be tolerable when our course, in world affairs as… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Indeed, there is much in pure humanitarian culture, as opposed to rigid scientific training, which encourages absorption in the affairs of mankind,… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Conflict is the basis of drama. I guess that goes back as long as time has existed as far as mankind is… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
Don't stay at the job for safe salary increases over time. That will never get you where you want - freedom from… — James Altucher Copy Share Image
“Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than half… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Blest be the gracious Power, who taught mankind To stamp a lasting image of the mind! Beasts may convey, and tuneful birds… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
A criminal who, having renounced reason ... hath, by the unjust violence and slaughter he hath committed upon one, declared war against… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Christ was a sublime actor on the stage of the world. He knew what he was thinking of when he said, "Heaven… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Some things mankind can finish and be done with, but not ... science, that persists, and changes from ancient Chaldeans studying the… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
Rumors and reports of man's relation with animals are the world's oldest news stories, headlined in the stars of the zodiac, posted… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
“At present, a good many men engaged in scientific pursuits, and who have signally failed in gaining recognition among their fellows, are… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“And we're not alone, you know, children," came Mrs. Whatsit, the comforter. "All through the universe, it's being fought, all through the… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
It is nobler to love the person next to you than to love mankind in general. — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
It's not a certain society that seems ridiculous to me, it's mankind, — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
A man has generally the good or ill qualities which he attributes to mankind. — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors. — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Man is but a foundling in the cosmos, abandoned by the forces that created him — Carl Becker Copy Share Image
