Mankind are always happy for having been happy; so that, if you make them happy now, you make them happy twenty years… — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
I travel to Cambodia, Thailand, Bali, and Nairobi for my charities: Somaly Mam and Friends to Mankind. — Serinda Swan Copy Share Image
A man's word and his intestinal fortitude are two of the most honorable virtues known to mankind. — Jim Nantz Copy Share Image
I refuse to accept the view . . . that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Angels, demons, spirits, wizards, gods and witches have peppered folk religions since mankind first started telling stories. — Robin Marantz Henig Copy Share Image
Present day statesmen are making the biggest blunder of the age if they believe that there can be any peace without equity… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
The avarice of mankind is insatiable; at one time two obols was pay enough; but now, when this sum has become customary,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
We pray that henceforth not only Japan but all mankind may know the blessings of harmony and progress. — Shigeru Yoshida Copy Share Image
The most universally awesome experience that mankind knows is to stand alone on a clear night and look at the stars. It… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
O vanity, how little is thy force acknowledged or thy operations discerned! How wantonly dost thou deceive mankind under different disguises! Sometimes… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind... War will exist until that distant day… — John Fitzgerald Kennedy 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
The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking...the solution to this problem lies in the heart of… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
To live without feeling or exciting sympathy, to be fortunate without adding to the felicity of others, or afflicted without tasting the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The main purpose of human life is to get educated by good thoughts and tell those to the world in an even… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
This is a lesson mankind has not yet learned. We identify, and stratify, and treat persons largely on the basis of their… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
I perfectly understand the particular attention which you pay to the question of nuclear energy, and fully realize the possible dangers and… — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Copy Share Image
I believe, indeed, that overemphasis on the purely intellectual attitude, often directed solely to the practical and factual, in our education, has… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“[T]he concern of man is not his future but his present, not the world but his soul. We must be just, we… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
The greatest temptation for the like of us is: to renounce violence, to repent, to make peace with oneself. Most revolutionaries fell… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
The Eucharist is the full realization of the worship which humanity owes to God, and it cannot be compared to any other… — Pope John Paul II 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
I read with keen interest the words of a bumper sticker readily visible on the highly polished chrome bumper of a car… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
How prone all human institutions have been to decay; how subject the best-formed and most wisely organized governments have been to lose… — James Monroe Copy Share Image
It is not at all incredible, that a book which has been so long in the possession of mankind should contain many… — Joseph Butler Copy Share Image
A person may be qualified to do greater good to mankind and become more beneficial to the world, by morality without faith… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Constantly working outward, putting system after system inside the known universe, they were the bright hungry wave of mankind reaching out to… — Algis Budrys Copy Share Image
There is no distrust of men and mankind in me. They will answer before God, so why should I worry? — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“It is not female egotism to say that the future of mankind may very well be ours to determine. It is a… — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share Image
Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The history of mankind is confined within a limited period, and from every quarter brings an intimation that human affairs have had… — Adam Ferguson Copy Share Image
What is a miracle?--'Tis a reproach, 'Tis an implicit satire on mankind; And while it satisfies, it censures too. — Edward Young Copy Share Image
Mankind is not a tribe of animals to which we owe compassion. Mankind is a club to which we owe our subscription. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I don't have any sense or urgency about any of my writing, actually. I don't think mankind will be damaged if I… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
The cross of Christ exists because mankind-loved by God, created by God, set in motion by God-betrayed God and prefers his stuff… — Matt Chandler Copy Share Image
Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind. — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The golden way is to be friends with the world and to regard the whole human family as one. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
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