The greatest part of mankind employ their first years to make their last miserable. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
No writing is good that does not tend to better mankind in some way or other. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Nonviolence is the virtue of the manly. The coward is innocent of it. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems — Epictetus Copy Share Image
The less men are fettered by tradition, the greater becomes the inward activity of their motives, and greater again in proportion to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Only free peoples can hold their purpose and their honor steady to a common end, and prefer the interests of mankind to… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Look, see, learn, become a citizen of Mankind, not just Hannibal, Missouri. That is the message of [Mark] Twain. — Hal Holbrook Copy Share Image
The world is like a vast sea: mankind like a vessel sailing on its tempestuous bosom. ... [T]he sciences serve us for… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
The book is a form in which some of the greatest masterpieces that mankind has ever achieved are expressed; — David Gelernter Copy Share Image
The human mind, in taking us down the path of technocracy, has become the adversary of life itself and collaterally the adversary… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
“The representation of women in the society, especially through mass media has been the most delusional act ever done on the grounds… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
There is reason to suspect, that the distinctions of mankind have more show than value, when it is found that all agree… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
John Michell's The Dimensions of Paradise is inarguably among the most important Gnostic transmissions of recent generations. With his candid, uncomplicated style,… — Robert Lawlor Copy Share Image
In so doing, the idea forces itself upon him that religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis, and he is optimistic enough… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Surely it must be plain that an ingenious man could speculate without end on both sides, and find analogies for all his… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Writing itself is a bad enough trade, rightly held up to ridicule and contempt by the greater part of mankind, and especially… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
To the eyes of a god, mankind must appear as a species of bacteria which multiply and become progressively virulent whenever they… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Truth is of no practical value to mankind save as it affects terrestrial phenomena, hence the discoveries of science should be concealed… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“To love mankind for the sake of God-that has been the most nobel and far-fetched feeling yet achieved by human beings. The… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Your pain is not prescribed by your creator, He is the healer thus not giver of misery. We are victims of others;… — Zarina Bibi Copy Share Image
Law is justice. And it is under the law of justice - under the reign of right; under the influence of liberty,… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
While science has nothing of value to say on the great and aching questions of life, death, love and meaning, what the… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
At the root of everything that we’re trying to accomplish is the belief that America has a mission. We are a nation… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The existing order is breaking down at a very rapid rate, and the main uncertainty is whether mankind can exert a positive… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change; Then let it come: I have no dread of what Is called for by… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Gratitude, as it were, is the moral memory of mankind. In this respect, it differs from faithfulness by being more practical and… — Georg Simmel Copy Share Image
Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Mankind, why do ye set your hearts on things That, of necessity, may not be shared? — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image