So perverse is mankind that every nationality prefers to be misgoverned by its own people than to be well ruled by another — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Unteachable from infancy to tomb - There is the first and main characteristic of mankind. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Remember that the best and greatest among mankind are those who do themselves no worldly good. Every successful man is more or… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
The first steps in the path of discovery, and the first approximate measures, are those which add most to the existing knowledge… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
Best Witchcraft is Geometry To the magician's mind - His ordinary acts are feats To thinking of mankind. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
The influence of mankind on climate is trivially true and numerically insignificant. — Richard Lindzen Copy Share Image
Tis a common observation here that our cause is the cause of all mankind, and that we are fighting for their liberty… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Now, that the sovereign power and deity, whatsoever it is, should have regard of mankind, is a toy and vanity worthy to… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
Yes, yes," said the Beast, "my heart is good, but still I am a monster." Among mankind," says Beauty, "there are many… — Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont Copy Share Image
[Regarding] the convention that clergymen are more virtuous than other men. Any average selection of mankind, set apart and told that it… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Reading is the way mankind delays the inevitable. Reading is the way we shake our fist at the sky. As long as… — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated; it satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time rewarding… — Arnold Palmer Copy Share Image
And the Lord said: I burn down your cities - how blind you must be. I take from you your children, and… — Randy Newman Copy Share Image
A man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The worship of the state is the worship of force. There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
All humans are imperfect. At times, the confident lose confidence, the patient misplace their patience, the generous act selfish, and the knowledgeable… — Suman Rai Copy Share Image
“From time to time, I open a newspaper. Things seem to be proceeding at a dizzying rate. We are dancing not on… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
The life and soul of science is its practical application, and just as the great advances in mathematics have been made through… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
To me this question whether liberty is a good or a bad thing appears as irrational as the question whether fire is… — James Fitzjames Stephen Copy Share Image
“Do you really not know of the magnificence of war? Or how worthless peace is? Peace only leads mankind to depravity! What… — Go Nagai Copy Share Image
The Universe is vast. Nothing is more curious than the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The prospect of penury in age is so gloomy and terrifying that every man who looks before him must resolve to avoid… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
If a man, holding a belief which he was taught in childhood or persuaded of afterwards, keeps down and pushes away any… — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
Every day that you get up, it's some kind of victory if you're making a good product, or working on a project… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
O but we dreamed to mend Whatever mischief seemed To afflict mankind, but now That winds of winter blow Learn that we… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
I think being forced to do something is the worst manupulation that mankind has formed — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Food is a central activity of mankind and one of the single most significant trademarks of a culture. — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
Mankind has always made too much of its saints and heroes, and how the latter handle the fuss might be called their… — Wilfrid Sheed Copy Share Image
My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
For there is in mankind an unfortunate propensity to make themselves, their views and their works, the measure of excellence in every… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“Panty Melter: an exceedingly rare species of man blessed with so many desirable attributes he effortlessly gains access into a girl's panties.” — Tracy Brogan Copy Share Image
The question I want to put forward is, 'Does the technology we are developing ultimately benefit mankind?' — Moshe Vardi Copy Share Image
What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind. — John Berger Copy Share Image
“Incurable diseases will eventually force mankind to justify disruptive nanotech and genetic engineering.” — Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident Copy Share Image
I've done every kind of touring known to mankind. I've played the big and the small places. — Julian Lennon Copy Share Image
Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood; and if there is any truth in him, if he rests at last… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Such is the blindness, nay the insanity of mankind, that some men are driven to death by the fear of it. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The language of tones belongs equally to all mankind, and melody is the absolute language in which the musician speaks to every… — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
Marriage is not an institution to be tampered with by mankind, and certainly not to be tampered with by those who are… — Lance B. Wickman Copy Share Image