“Most of the time, we see only what we want to see, or what others tell us to see, instead of really… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
. . . Thirteen governments [of the original states] thus founded on the natural authority of the people alone, without a pretence… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Aerial spirits, by great Jove design'd To be on earth the guardians of mankind: Invisible to mortal eyes they go, And mark… — Hesiod Copy Share Image
There is not one grain in the universe, either too much or too little, nothing to be added, nothing to be spared;… — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
So natural to mankind is intolerance ... that religious freedom has hardly anywhere been practically realized. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“If one is searching for the cause of brutality in mankind, it would do well to remember that civilization is a great… — Christopher Dutton Copy Share Image
No longer enslaved or made dependent by force of law, the great majority are so by force of property; they are still… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly. He is like a watch of which the most that can be said… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man. Not in him but off from him things are grotesque or eccentric… — Walt Whitman 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
Gays and weapons have something in common; there all causing extinction to mankind. — Khanster Copy Share Image
It is a maxim, founded on the universal experience of mankind, that no nation is to be trusted farther than it is… — George Washington Copy Share Image
A display of indifference to all the actions and passions of mankind was not supposed to be such a distinguished quality at… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
There is nothing so useful to man in general, nor so beneficial to particular societies and individuals, as trade. This is that… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
The power of understanding symbols, i.e. of regarding everything about a sense-datum as irrelevant except a certain form that it embodies, is… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
Mankind is advanced technically. Man can build space stations, can assemble them in space, and ponders about landing on Mars, but the… — Sigmund Jahn Copy Share Image
The American businessmen, as a class, have demonstrated the greatest productive genius and the most spectacular achievements ever recorded in the economic… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
To realize life in the abstract as noble or beautiful or humane, to set it forth so with radiance upon it, that… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
So far has Athens left the rest of mankind behind in thought and expression that her pupils have become the teachers of… — Isocrates Copy Share Image
While science has nothing of value to say on the great and aching questions of life, death, love and meaning, what the… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
True religion has a universal quality. It does not find fault with other religions. False religions will find fault with other religions;… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
Man's chief enemy is his own unruly nature and the dark forces put up within him. — Ernest Jones Copy Share Image
As the fisherman depends upon the rivers, lakes and seas and the farmer upon the land for his existence, so does mankind… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
It is a mistake to think that we can control the breeding of mankind in the long run by an appeal to… — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
Regard man as a mine rich in gems of inestimable value. Education can, alone, cause it to reveal its treasures, and enable… — Bahá'u'lláh Copy Share Image
Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
To get a name can happen but to few. A name, even in the most commercial nation, is one of the few… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Humor is essential to a successful tactician, for the most potent weapons known to mankind are satire and ridicule. — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
Thinking aloud is a habit which is responsible for most of mankind's misery. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Before this century shall run out, journalism will be the whole press. Mankind will write their book day by day, hour by… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
Like the bat, the Sufi is asleep to 'things of the day' - the familiar struggle for existence which the ordinary man… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
I am not able to instruct you. I can only tell that I have chosen wrong. I have passed my time in… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
In schoolbooks and in literature we can separate ecclesiastical and political history; in the life of mankind they are intertwined. — Leopold von Ranke Copy Share Image
Mankind has always drawn from outside sources of energy. This island was the first to harness coal and steam. But our present… — Frederick Soddy Copy Share Image
I believe in Spinoza's God, who reveals Himself in the lawful harmony of the world, not in a God who concerns Himself… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
What important is man should live in righteousness, in natural love for mankind. — Bob Marley Copy Share Image