For what but eye and ear silence the mind With the minute particulars of mankind? — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Heaven is always there for us; but this life...this life is a gift to us — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Even in civilized mankind faint traces of monogamous instinct can be perceived. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
It is not just the Great Works of mankind that make a culture. It is the daily things, like what people eat… — Laurie Colwin Copy Share Image
The sexual abuse and exploitation of children is one of the most vicious crimes conceivable, a violation of mankind's most basic duty… — James T. Walsh Copy Share Image
In order to produce something new, you have to return to the original source, to the childhood of mankind. — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns; you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross… — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
If human beings are immortal, so are animals. If matter has the ability to remember, it also has the ability to think. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Mankind have been slow to believe that order reigns in the universe-that the world is a cosmos and a chaos. — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
Men of stainless character and self purification will easily inspire confidence and automatically purify the atmosphere around them. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt. — Henry George Copy Share Image
The Church is always in trouble because the Church walks into the trouble in which mankind is trying to resolve itself. There… — Dolores Hart Copy Share Image
It ought not to be unpleasant to say that which one honestly believes or disbelieves. That it so constantly is painful to… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
The evolution of life, and the evolutionary origin of mankind, are scientifically established as firmly and completely as any historical event not… — Theodosius Dobzhansky Copy Share Image
It is not the nature of avarice to be satisfied with anything but money. Every passion that acts upon mankind has a… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Religion, charity, pure benevolence, and morals, mingled up with superstitious rites and ferocious cruelty, form in their combination institutions the most powerful… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
The laws and conditions of the production of wealth partake of the character of physical truths. There is nothing optional or arbitrary… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Countless the various species of mankind, Countless the shades which sep'rate mind from mind; No general object of desire is known, Each… — William Gifford Copy Share Image
Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by… — James Madison 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
Masonry, according to the general acceptation of the term, is an art founded on the principles of geometry, and devoted to the… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
In writing, as in life, faults are endured without disgust when they are associated with transcendent merit, and may be sometimes recommended… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Pessimists are just as illogical as optimists; insomuch as both envisage the aims of mankind as unified, and as having a direct… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Love of peace is common among weak, short-sighted, timid, and lazy persons; and on the other hand courage is found among many… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The conflict that exists today is no more than an old-style struggle for power, once again presented to mankind in semireligious trappings.… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
When you are born without the ordinary feelings and emotions shared by most other human beings, life looks different to you. It… — Boyd Rice Copy Share Image
The Wikks are regular kids given a Galactic size challenge. Readers will follow Oliver, Tiffany, and twins, Mason and Austin as they… — Wayne Thomas Batson Copy Share Image
How could you fear a dearth? Have not mankind tho' slain by millions, millions left behind? — Joel Barlow Copy Share Image
Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way to the common… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law,… — John Locke Copy Share Image
“I have no fear of ghosts, and I have never heard it said that so much harm had been done by the… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
Look at The Rock's competition! Look at him! It looks like a big monkey came down here, took a crap, and out… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to mankind. I see no limit to the horizon which opens before him. — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
