No virtue fades out of mankind. Not over-hopeful by inborn temperament, cautious by long experience, I yet never despair of human virtue. — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
To a mankind that recognizes the equality of man everywhere, every war becomes a civil war. — Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy Copy Share Image
Jesus Christ opposed with earnest eloquence the panic fears and hateful superstitions which have enslaved mankind for ages. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
You can know all there is to know about life and mankind, but what do you really know about yourself? — Yasmina Khadra Copy Share Image
The gaps in power, the gaps in wealth, the gaps in ideology which hold the nations apart also make up the abyss… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Copy Share Image
Today, the greatest misconception of mankind is that America is the land of the free. — Roozbeh Aranipour Copy Share Image
It may be that there was no reason or purpose, for mankind must always be finding reasons where there are none, and… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Law is nothing else but the best reason of wise men applied for ages to the transactions and business of mankind. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“The vast mass of mankind is mere material, and only exists in order by some great effort, by some mysterious process, by… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
The roots of our statehood go back more than two millennia and two centuries to the origins of the Hun Empire. Building… — Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj 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
No doubt you are right... there would be far less suffering amongst mankind if men... did not employ their imaginations so assiduously… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
La de couverte d'un mets nouveau fait plus pour le bonheur du genre humain que la de couverte d'une e toile. The… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
War has been avoided from a due sense of the miseries, and the demoralization it produces, and of the superior blessings of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Mankind is interdependent, and the happiness of each depends upon the happiness of all, and it is this lesson that humanity has… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into the short sentences, that may be easily impressed… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The truth is that the materialistic paternalism of the present day, if allowed to go on unchecked, will rapidly make of America… — John Gresham Machen Copy Share Image
All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the… — John Donne Copy Share Image
I may be expediting the attainment of an object that will in time be found of great importance to mankind; so much… — George Cayley Copy Share Image
It is possible to be a fan of reality TV, talent shows and bubblegum pop and still have a brain. You will… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Only yesterday mankind lived in fear of the scourges of smallpox, cholera and plague that once swept nations before them. Now our… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion. However valuable-even necessary-that may have been in… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
In truth , mankind cannot be saved from without, by schoolmasters or any other sort of masters: it can only be lamed… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Every man, in proportion to his virtue, considers himself, with respect to the great community of mankind, as the steward and guardian… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Sun and moon and day and night and man and beast each with a splendor which man in all his vileness cannot… — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
The history of mankind is the history of our misunderstandings with god, for he doesn't understand us, and we don't understand him. — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
It is the darling delusion of mankind that the world is progressive in religion, toleration, freedom, as it is progressive in machinery. — Moncure D. Conway Copy Share Image
Of all things known to mortals, wine is the most powerful and effectual for exciting and inflaming the passions of mankind, being… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Recent history is the record of one vast conspiracy to impose one level of mechanical consciousness on mankind. — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
I have done for my country, and for all mankind, all that I could do, and I now resign my soul, without… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The generation of mankind is like the generation of leaves. The wind scatters the leaves on the ground, but the living tree… — Homer Copy Share Image
I weave the shoes of Sorrow: Soundless shall be the footfall light In all men's ears of Sorrow, Sudden and light. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
It can scarcely be denied that the fundamental phenomena which first led mankind into chemical inquiries are those of combustion. — William Crookes Copy Share Image
Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present. — Franz Boas Copy Share Image
From the height from which the great look down on the world all the rest of mankind seem equal. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The world's deteriorating ecology poses as great a danger to mankind today as did the nuclear standoff between the superpowers at the… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We can meet our destiny, and that destiny to build a land here that will be, for all mankind, a shining city… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
