Knowledge, wealth and power without justice are the dangerous things to mankind. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Over the souls of men spread the condor wings of colossal monsters and all manner of evil things prey upon the heart… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
The clergy converted the simple teachings of Jesus into an engine for enslaving mankind and adulterated by artificial constructions into a contrivance… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There are only two great currents in the history of mankind: the baseness which makes conservatives and the envy which makes revolutionaries. — Edmond de Goncourt Copy Share Image
There is one characteristic of the present direction of public opinion, peculiarly calculated to make it intolerant of any marked demonstration of… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
A writer of story books! What kind of business in life-what mode of glorifying God, or being serviceable to mankind in his… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
The greatest threat to mankind comes from the renunciation of individual scruple in favor of institutional denominators. . . . Real heroism… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
Mankind might be divided between multitude who hate to be kept waiting because they get bored and the happy few who rather… — Ernest Dimnet Copy Share Image
Believing that I was born for the service of mankind, and regarding the care of the commonwealth as a kind of common… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Before the curse of statistics fell upon mankind we lived a happy, innocent life, full of merriment and go and informed by… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Persons visited by the angel quiver with a thrill unknown to the rest of mankind — Gaston Leroux Copy Share Image
As long as his strength permits, the poor mortal must always climb new mountains. — Fausto Cercignani Copy Share Image
Man was not made for the service of economies; economies were made to serve mankind; and men and women were made -… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
No true and permanent fame can be founded, except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind. — Charles Sumner Copy Share Image
The Family of Man is more than 3 billion strong. It lives in more than 100 nations. Most of its members are… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
I will insist the Hebrews have [contributed] more to civilize men than any other nation. If I was an atheist and believed… — John Adams Copy Share Image
In Washington and Moscow they are saying, 'Man has finally come of age; he doesn't need paternalistic help.' Which is another way… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Superstitions and belief in magic are perennial in just the same way as religion, and something near to being universal among mankind;… — Bryan Magee Copy Share Image
I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
While it is generally agreed that the visible expressions and agencies are necessary instruments, civilization seems to depend far more fundamentally upon… — Mary Ritter Beard Copy Share Image
In the depths of my heart I can’t help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few exceptions, are worthless. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
the wealthy white western minority of the world could not hope to prosper if most of the rest of mankind were foundering… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Copy Share Image