History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The pioneers and missionaries of religion have been the real cause of more trouble and war than all other classes of mankind. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
It is difficult to persuade mankind that the love of virtue is the love of themselves. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Know mankind well, don't degrade every man as evil, and don't exalt every man thinking he is good. He who cannot discover… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Nothing is more important to God than prayer in dealing with mankind. But it is likewise all-important to man to pray. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Bethink you of the blessedness. Every wife is like the Mother of God and has the hope of bearing a saviour of… — John Buchan 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
Our two first parents, yet the only two Of mankind, in the happy garden placed, Reaping immortal fruits of joy and love,… — John Milton Copy Share Image
The most important question we have to deal with is a combination of population control and the control of our environment -… — David Packard Copy Share Image
The future of mankind is going to be decided within the next two generations, and there are two absolute requisites: We must… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
It might be judged an affront to your understanding should I go about to prove this first principle; the existence of a… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The cure for the Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice and Eric Garner tragedies is not education or exposure. It's the Gospel.… — Benjamin Watson Copy Share Image
World federalists hold before us the vision of a unified mankind living in peace under a just world order... The heart of… — U Thant Copy Share Image
All equally see in the convulsion in America an era in the history of the world, out of which must come in… — Charles Francis Adams, Sr Copy Share Image
The nude gains its enduring value from the fact that it reconciles several contrary states. It takes the most sensual and immediately… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
“Mankind has never been in this position before. Without having improved appreciably in virtue or enjoying wiser guidance, it has got into… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
For many people during many centuries, mankind's history before the coming of Christianity was the history of the Jews and what they… — John Roberts Copy Share Image
Busy editors cannot be expected to put on their posters, "Mr. Wilkinson Still Safe," or "Mr. Jones, of Worthing, Not Dead Yet."… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
International educational exchange is the most significant current project designed to continue the process of humanizing mankind to the point, we would… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
The perfect mystic is not an ecstatic devotee lost in contemplation of Oneness, nor a saintly recluse shunning all commerce with mankind,… — Abu-Sa'id Abul-Khayr Copy Share Image
If one holds these high principles clearly before one's eyes, and compares them with the life and spirit of our times, then… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Mankind's journey into space, like every great voyage of discovery, will become part of our unending journey of liberation. In the limitless… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Do not be grand. Try to get the ordinary into your writing - breakfast tables rather than the solar system; Middletown today,… — Darcy O'Brien Copy Share Image
I could not be leading a religious life unless I identified myself with the whole of mankind, and that I could not… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The vast upheaval of the World War set in motion forces that will either destroy civilization or raise mankind to undreamed of… — Arthur Henderson Copy Share Image
Lay then the axe to the root, and teach governments humanity. It is their sanguinary punishments which corrupt mankind. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Art is a universal language and through it each nation makes its own unique contribution to the culture of mankind. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A child is born with no state of mind, Blind to the ways of mankind. God is smilin' on you but He's… — Melvin Glover Copy Share Image
The happiness of the domestic fireside is the first boon of Heaven; and it is well it is so, since it is… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Being in an area of the planet where scientists believe mankind started is quite amazing. — Jan de Bont Copy Share Image
“Fear and imperfection are the hallmarks of humanity; what we thought separated us from the rest of mankind—are the things that bind… — Robert R. Randall Copy Share Image
Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
A man can give up a right, but he may not give up a duty without being guilty of a grave dereliction. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Of all the small nations of this earth, perhaps only the ancient Greeks surpass the Scots in their contribution to mankind. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures. — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
Man talks about everything, and he talks about everything as though the understanding of everything were all inside him. — Antonio Porchia Copy Share Image
Mankind is a great, an immense family... This is proved by what we feel in our hearts at Christmas. — Pope John XXIII Copy Share Image