It put me upon reflecting how little repining there would be among mankind at any condition of life, if people would rather… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
The future of poetry is immense, because in poetry, where it is worthy of its high destinies, our race, as time goes… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
For each of the four hundred and four bodily ailments celebrated physicians have produced infallible remedies, but the malady which brings the… — Ihara Saikaku Copy Share Image
The works of nature and the works of revelation display religion to mankind in characters so large and visible that those who… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Faith means making a virtue out of not thinking. It's nothing to brag about. And those who preach faith, and enable and… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
To live, mankind must recover its essential humanness and its innate divinity; men must recover their capacity for humility, sanity and integrity;… — George Stanley Copy Share Image
Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Yesu alikuwa binadamu ili afe kama binadamu kwa ajili ya binadamu. Alikufa msalabani ili sisi wote tuokoke. Lakini Shetani hataki hilo litokee.… — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
There is a kind of grandeur and respect which the meanest and most insignificant part of mankind endeavor to procure in the… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
If some should accuse us as if we held that people born before the time of Christ were not accountable to God… — Justin Martyr Copy Share Image
“Everything is boring, boredom is the other epidemic which is making Europe ripe for decline. Boredom is the end product of each… — Iwan Goll Copy Share Image
Great part of that order which reigns among mankind is not the effect of government. It has its origin in the principles… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“I have long been of the Opinion, says he, that the Fire was a vast Blessing and the Plague likewise; it gave… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
We must work passionately and indefatigably to bridge the gulf between our scientific progress and our moral progress. One of the great… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Omit a few of the most abstruse sciences, and mankind's study of man occupies nearly the whole field of literature. The burden… — George Finlayson Copy Share Image
To improve both sexes they ought, not only in private families, but in public schools, to be educated together. If marriage be… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Men cannot abandon their religious faith without a kind of aberration of intellect and a sort of violent distortion of their true… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
May you become as the waves of one sea, stars of the same heaven, fruits adorning the same tree, roses of one… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
Though there is antipathy in the human heart to the gospel of Christ, yet when Christians make their good work shine, all… — David Livingstone Copy Share Image
“The salpinx is not simply an instrument of summoning. It is also an instrument of binding. Since you followed its sorrowful tones… — Frank Lambert Copy Share Image
This festival... the festival of Makar Sankranti... is our way of showing love towards nature. While global warming poses a serious threat… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
Man's life is thought, And he, despite his terror, cannot cease Ravening through century after century, Ravening, raging, and uprooting that he… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
The artist’s task is to save the soul of mankind; and anything less is a dithering while Rome burns. Because of the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything except our thinking. Thus, we are drifting toward catastrophe beyond conception. We shall… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The disastrous history of our species indicates the futility of all attempts at a diagnosis which do not take into account the… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
“Even in Europe a change has sensibly taken place in the mind of man. Science has liberated the ideas of those who… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
For me, life is the most beautiful gift of God to mankind, therefore people and nations who destroy life by abortion and… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
I do not understand a mind which sees a gracious beneficence in spending money to slay and maim human beings in almost… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
It is natural for every man uninstructed to murmur at his condition, because, in the general infelicity of life, he feels his… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Along with everything else, I know that there is a beauty in mankind. It is a beauty that no ugliness, no violence,… — Don Pendleton Copy Share Image
There is no question that America has been a nation that has been blessed by almighty God. There is no other nation… — Franklin Graham Copy Share Image
I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind, if he… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
A child rightly trained may be a world-wide blessing, with an influence reaching onward to eternal years. But a neglected or misdirected… — George Muller Copy Share Image
To judge from the history of mankind, we shall be compelled to conclude, that the fiery and destructive passions of war, reign… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Our main inspiration [with Alix MacKenzie], I think, came from the Field Museum of Natural History, because they had pieces which were… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
Mankind needs peace more than ever, for our entire planet, threatened by nuclear war, is in danger of total destruction. A destruction… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Unvisited tombstones, unread diaries, and erased video game high-score rankings are three of the most potent symbols of mankind's pathetic and fruitless… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
Political Economy, in truth, has never pretended to give advice to mankind with no lights but its own; though people who knew… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image