That incessant envy wherewith the common rate of mankind pursues all superior natures to their own. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Intellectuals love Jefferson and hate markets, and intellectuals write most of the books. Intellectuals often think that they should, for the benefit… — John Steele Gordon Copy Share Image
For many of us we are always wanting more - we would be happier if we had such and such. Maybe we… — Abigail Van Buren Copy Share Image
Through artists mankind becomes an individual, in that they unite the past and the future in the present. They are the higher… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share… — Mary Baker Eddy 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
I sometimes think God allows Great Britain to be unprincipled for the good of mankind. — Julia Ward Howe Copy Share Image
Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked. God sometimes sends a famine, sometimes a pestilence, and sometimes a hero, for the… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
There is only one hope for mankind — and that is democratic Socialism. — Aneurin Bevan Copy Share Image
The world of A.D. 2014 will have few routine jobs that cannot be done better by some machine than by any human… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
My only consolation for the failure of the Dardanelles was that God wished things to be prolonged in order to sicken mankind… — Winston Churchill 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
Good Heaven, whose darling attribute we find is boundless grace, and mercy to mankind, abhors the cruel. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
When man fell from grace, he lost a kingdom, not a religion. He lost dominion over the earth; He did not lose… — Myles Munroe Copy Share Image
Destitution and excessive luxury develop apparently the same ideals, the same marauding attitude towards mankind, the intensity of struggle for material goods,… — Alice James Copy Share Image
“Prehistory of mankind is way too horrible to be remembered. But if we choose to ignore it, then we'll be doomed to… — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
Each religion has helped mankind. Paganism increased in man the light of beauty, the largeness and height of his life, his aim… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
“[Pope] Clement waved his hands in irritation as if to dismiss the very idea. "The world is crumbling into ruin. Armies are… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
The fairy tale, which to this day is the first tutor of children because it was once the first tutor of mankind,… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
In the history of thought and culture the dark nights have perhaps in some ways cost mankind less grief than the false… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor. ... Some of the worst tyrannies of our… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Apart from the mercy of God, there is no other source of hope for mankind. — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
From this observed behavior a major psychological truth about this race of forked destroyers may be deduced: that, just as nature abhors… — Soseki Natsume Copy Share Image
Rust, corrosion, wind, rain. The nibbling teeth of mice and the acrid droppings of insects and the devouring jaws of years. The… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
When in the course of human development, existing institutions prove inadequate to the needs of man, when they serve merely to enslave,… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“When the great ship containing the hopes and aspirations of the world, when the great ship freighted with mankind goes down in… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Mankind are creatures of books, as well as of other circumstances; and such they eternally remain,--proofs, that the race is a noble… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
The image of the frontier is probably one of the oldest images of mankind, and it is not surprising that we should… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
In the second century of the Christian era, the empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“As long as there is one person suffering an injustice; as long as one person is forced to bear an unnecessary sorrow;… — Joseph Lewis Copy Share Image
“I am not your king, impudent larva? Who then has created you? Orestes: You. But you should not have created me free.” — Jean-Paul Sartre 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
Name me a society that doesn't love barbeque. It doesn't exist. Mankind is barbeque celebration. — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
“History is indeed more than the register of crime,folilies and misfortune of mankind.” — peter adejimi Copy Share Image
Dear, dear, the miniature world of the family! All the emotions of mankind seem to find a place in it. — Ivy Compton-Burnett Copy Share Image
The bulk of mankind believe in two gods. They are under one dominion here in the house, as friend and parent, in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nowadays the world is becoming increasingly materialistic, and mankind is reaching toward the very zenith of external progress, driven by an insatiable… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Men are very apt to run into extremes, hatred to England may carry come into an excess of Confidence in France... I… — George Washington Copy Share Image
We want freedom for our country, but not at the expense or exploitation of others, not us to degrade other countries...I want… — Lal Bahadur Shastri Copy Share Image
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