But is an enemy so execrable that tho in captivity his wishes and comforts are to be disregarded and even crossed? I… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We should also leave behind discrimination, because it is narrow-minded and ignorant, denies contact and warmth; and corrodes mankind's belief that we… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
I regard the Masonic institution as one of the means ordained by the Supreme Architect to enable mankind to work out the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Is mankind alone in the universe? Or are there somewhere other intelligent beings looking up into their night sky from very different… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Eve doubted God, and I as a child of God am now to be exactly the opposite: I am to believe him.… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
History teaches us no race, no people, no nation has ever been freed through cowardice, through cringing, through bowing and scraping, but… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
In recent times, modern science has developed to give mankind, for the first time in the history of the human race, a… — Karl Taylor Compton Copy Share Image
It is an error common to many to take the character of mankind from the worst and basest amongst them; whereas, as… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Every time we have come to the end of a conflict, somehow we have persuaded ourselves that the nature of mankind and… — Robert M. Gates Copy Share Image
“Let man then contemplate the whole of nature in her full and lofty majesty, let him turn his gaze away from the… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
What is patriotism but love of the good things we ate in our childhood? I have said elsewhere that the loyalty to… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
One of the most dangerously vicious circles menacing the continued existence of all mankind arises through that grim striving for the highest… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
The constitution regulates our stewardship; the constitution devotes the domain to union, to justice, to defense, to welfare, and to liberty. But… — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
Some discouragement, some faintness of heart at the new real future which replaces the imaginary, is not unusual, and we do not… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
He that is to govern a whole Nation , must read in himself, not this, or that particular man; but Mankind; which… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Whoever makes two ears of corn, or two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before, deserves better of mankind,… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
An Actor is an interpreter of other men's words, often a soul which wishes to reveal itself to the world but dare… — Alec Guinness Copy Share Image
It must be remembered that there is no real reason to expect anything in particular from mankind; good and evil are local… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
There is so much each one of us can do to make a difference. We are at a dangerous juncture in the… — Bianca Jagger Copy Share Image
[The poet] must write as the interpreter of nature and the legislator of mankind, and consider himself as presiding over the thoughts… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
In the mass of mankind, I fear, there is too great a majority of fools and knaves; who, singly from their number,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If there was the same propensity in mankind for investigating the motives, as there is for censuring the conduct, of public characters,… — George Washington Copy Share Image
You have no idea how much of the inefficiency of mankind comes from thinking about the wrong-doings of others, and of ourselves.… — Emma Curtis Hopkins Copy Share Image
The long history of mankind is studded with convergences, perhaps most notably in social systems and the use of artefacts and technology.… — Simon Conway Morris Copy Share Image
The instinctive and universal taste of mankind selects flowers for the expression of its finest sympathies, their beauty and their fleetingness serving… — George Stillman Hillard Copy Share Image
When I refuse to obey an unjust law, I do not contest the right of the majority to command, but I simply… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Solomon'sexcess became an insult upon the privileges of mankind; for by the same plan of luxury, which made it necessary to have… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Solitude and company may be allowed to take their turns: the one creates in us the love of mankind, the other that… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Before this century shall run out, journalism will be the whole press. Mankind will write their book day by day, hour by… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
In a world which furnishes so many employments which are useful, and so many which are amusing, it is our own fault… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The institution of religion exists only to keep mankind in order, and to make men merit the goodness of God by their… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,--I mean good-nature,--are of daily… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
The Grecians and Romans were strongly possessed of the spirit of liberty but not the principle, for at the time they were… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
My History of the Jesuits is in four volumes… This society has been a greater calamity to mankind than the French Revolution,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The herd of mankind can hardly be said to think; their notions are almost all adoptive; and, in general, I believe it… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
It is characteristic of genius to be hopeful and aspiring. It is characteristic of genius to break up the artificial arrangements of… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
The majority of mankind think that they think; they acquiesce, and suppose that they argue; they flatter themselves that they are holding… — E. W. Bullinger Copy Share Image
The earth should not be injured. The earth should not be destroyed. As often as the elements, the elements of the world… — Hildegard of Bingen Copy Share Image
I have this amateur side attraction to, and interest in, the sciences and biology and physics and evolution. Paleontology is of interest… — Wangechi Mutu Copy Share Image
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