Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Study men laying down their lives without hurting anyone else in the cause of their country's freedom. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The history of Napoleon now becomes, for 12 momentous years, the history of mankind. — John Holland Rose Copy Share Image
Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Either what we hold to be right and good and true IS right and good and true, for all mankind, or we're… — Sean Connery Copy Share Image
Truth is inclusive of all the virtues, is older than sects and schools, and, like charity, more ancient than mankind. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
No one should dogmatize about the capacity of human nature for degradation or exaltation. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
There are some persons in this world, who, unable to give better proof of being wise, take a strange delight in showing… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
To what gulfs A single deviation from the track Of human duties leads even those who claim The homage of mankind as… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
An established government has an infinite advantage, by that very circumstance of its being established--the bulk of mankind being governed by authority,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Women were formed to temper Mankind, and sooth them into Tenderness and Compassion; not to set an Edge upon their Minds, and… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
We believe with all the strength of our spirit that mankind has a supreme, primary and irreplaceable need which can be satisfied… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
Internationalism is a community theory of society which is founded on economic, spiritual, and biological facts. It maintains that respect for a… — Christian Lous Lange Copy Share Image
Men go abroad to admire the heights of mountains, the mighty billows of the sea, the broad tides of rivers, the compass… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Let us embrace Science and the new technologies unfettered, for it is these which will liberate mankind from the myth of god,… — Claude Vorilhon Copy Share Image
“What infinite heart's-ease Must kings neglect, that private men enjoy! And what have kings, that privates have not too, Save ceremony, save… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was… — Marie Curie Copy Share Image
Mankind has invested more than four million years of evolution in the attempt to avoid physical exertion. Now a group of backward-thinking… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
It is a sensation not experienced by many mortals," said he, "to be looking into a churchyard on a wild windy night,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
And then, the Earth being small, mankind will migrate into space, and will cross the airless Saharas which separate planet from planet… — William Winwood Reade Copy Share Image
Man represses the irrational passions of destructiveness, hate, envy, revenge; he worships power, money, the sovereign state, the nation; while he pays… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The Lord created you and me for the purpose of becoming Gods like Himself; when we have been proved in our present… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
“I love humanity, which has been a constant delight to me during all my seventy-seven years of life; and I love flowers,… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
The cause of Communism is the greatest cause in the history of mankind! — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
The Mandelbrot set is the most complex mathematical object known to mankind. — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Riches attract attention, consideration, and congratulations of mankind. — John Adams Copy Share Image
