The public pleasures of far the greater part of mankind are counterfeit. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is nobler to love the person next to you than to love mankind in general. — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
It's not a certain society that seems ridiculous to me, it's mankind, — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
I represent the jolly mass of mankind. I am the happy and reckless Christian. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Take mankind in general, they are vicious-their passions may be operated upon. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Nothing is more dangerous in practice, than an obstinate, unbending adherence to a system, particularly in its application to the wants and… — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
We are about to make motherhood a crime. No civilized government in the history of mankind has ever done this. — Adrian G. Duplantier Copy Share Image
Power is what spoils people. Yes, it seems to me that the seeking after power is the great danger and the great… — Baldur von Schirach Copy Share Image
It has been my experience that people who are at cross-purposes with nature are cynical about mankind and ill at ease with… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
Ahimsa is nothing if not a well-balanced, exquisite consideration for one's neighbour, and an idle man is wanting in that elementary consideration. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The art of cookery is the art of poisoning mankind, by rendering the appetite still importunate, when the wants of nature are… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
Every man must form himself as a particular being, seeking, however, to attain that general idea of which all mankind are constituents. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
But this I know: if all mankind were to take their troubles to market with the idea of exchanging them, anyone seeing… — Herodotus Copy Share Image
If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The burden borne by mankind is a heavy and a crushing thing. The word Jesus used means a load carried or toil… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We have been told mankind will be judged on the intent of the heart. No mortal can see into the depth of… — H. Burke Peterson Copy Share Image
It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
As in the fine arts, the progress of mankind from barbarism to civilisation is marked by a gradual succession of triumphs over… — Isabella Beeton Copy Share Image
Adorn thyself with simplicity and with indifference towards the things which lie between virtue and vice. Love mankind. Follow God. The poet… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“... as long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than their benefactors, the thirst of military… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
There's a lot of talk in some of the other versions of the Bible, the Hebrew versions, and things about the end… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
Pessimism is a very easy way out because it is a short view of life. If you look at what is happening… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
You see some classes of the human family that are black, uncouth, uncomely, disagreeable and low in their habits, wild, and seemingly… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
There comes a terrible moment to many souls when the great movements of the world, the larger destinies of mankind, which have… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Millions of men give all their energies, as well as their very souls, for the acquisition of gold. And this will continue… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Like the bat, the Sufi is asleep to 'things of the day' - the familiar struggle for existence which the ordinary man… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“Can we believe that the real God, if there is one, ever ordered a man to be killed simply for making hair… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
So strong is this propensity of mankind to fall into mutual animosities, that where no substantial occasion presents itself, the most frivolous… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“If mankind's destined to bite the bullet, let's bite it and be damned.” — Darren Shan Copy Share Image
I Love mankind... It's PEOPLE I can't stand! Linus and the peanuts gang. — Morgan Pierce Copy Share Image
The cause of Communism is the greatest cause in the history of mankind! — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Riches attract attention, consideration, and congratulations of mankind. — John Adams Copy Share Image
