Nothing feebler does earth nurture than man, Of all things breathing and moving. — Homer Copy Share Image
I refuse to believe that the tendency of human nature is always downward. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
But I am I. And I won't subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind — Jack London Copy Share Image
Mankind will never see an end of trouble until lovers of wisdom come to hold political power, or the holders of power… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How could passion run so deep Had I never thought That the crime of being born Blackens all our lot? — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
So long as mankind shall continue to lavish more praise upon its destroyers than upon its benefactors war shall remain the chief… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“The problem with human race is not that it errs, but that it does so repetitively.” — Raheel Farooq Copy Share Image
What forests of laurel we bring, and the tears of mankind, to those who stood firm against the opinion of their contemporaries! — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay mad and… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
If refined sense, and exalted sense, be not so useful as common sense, their rarity, their novelty, and the nobleness of their… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The demand that defective people be prevented from propagating equally defective offspring is a demand of the clearest reason and if systematically… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
May God be with me! May Heaven bless this New Year. May it be a year of fruitfulness, of peace and prosperity;… — Giacomo Meyerbeer Copy Share Image
I'm very skeptical of the amount of money that goes into military expenditure, not just in the poor countries [but] also in… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Throughout history no one has suffered more than God. He has suffered because his own children fell away from him. Ever since… — Sun Myung Moon Copy Share Image
Each man, therefore, is the entire world, bearing within his genes a memory of all mankind. Or as Leibniz put it: ‘Every… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
The experience of treaties being broken with impunity provide an afflicting lesson to mankind how little dependence is to be placed on… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The Vision of Christ that thou dost see, Is my vision's greatest enemy. Thine is the Friend of all Mankind, Mine speaks… — William Blake Copy Share Image
World dictatorship can be established only when the victory of socialism has been achieved in certain countries or groups of countries ...… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
In two weeks the sheeplike masses of any country can be worked up by the newspapers into such a state of excited… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
On my 70th birthday, I was asked how I felt about mankind's prospects. This is my reply: We are behaving like yeasts… — Farley Mowat Copy Share Image
In a general view, there are few conquests that repay the charge of making them, and mankind are pretty well convinced that… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
So little have thee first Christians (who despoiled the Jews of their Bible) understood the first four chapters of Genesis in their… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
Capitalism is not only a better form of organizing human activity than any deliberate design, any attempt to organize it to satisfy… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Even the wisest of mankind cannot live by reason alone; pure arrogant reason, denying the claims of prejudice (which commonly are also… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
“Not one little fellow need fear that he will be forbidden to pluck his shining grape from the cluster of political Power,… — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share Image
The whole of mankind is one and only one, one race, one class and one society. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Riches are of little avail in many of the calamities to which mankind are liable. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
“Mankind cannot fight it's way to freedom nor hate it's way to happiness.” — James Patrick Lane Copy Share Image
Thinking aloud is a habit which is responsible for most of mankind's misery. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Incivility is the extreme of pride; it is built on the contempt of mankind. — Anonymous Copy Share Image