It is easier to understand mankind in general than any individual man. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“The motives of mankind are plainer than the motions they produce.” — R.D. Blackmore Copy Share Image
For, to make deserts, God, who rules mankind, Begins with kings, and ends the work by wind. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
But I fear that I also underestimate the stupidity of the rest of mankind. Are we absolutely sure that we ought to… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Men are good. But they are poor victims making themselves miserable under the false belief that they are doing good. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Someday, somehow, I am going to do something useful, something for people. They are, most of them, so helpless, so hurt and… — Edith Cavell Copy Share Image
The faith in reason insists that the poverty of democracy offers a greater hope for mankind than the prosperity that attaches itself… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
In the depths of my heart I can’t help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few exceptions, are worthless. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
It is not differences of opinion; it is geographical lines, rivers, and mountains which divide State from State, and make different nations… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
I am sensible that he who means to do mankind a real service must set down with the determination of putting up,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for… — George Gissing Copy Share Image
We stand today at the threshold of a great event both in the life of the United Nations and in the life… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
...I thought how I hate any kind of mob - I hate mobs of sports fans, mobs of environmental demonstrators, I even… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
“Man’s morality was not advancing as fast as man’s science. Mankind was not spiritually evolved enough for the powers he possessed. We… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
The history of mankind, the history of salvation, passes by way of the family... The family is placed at the center of… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The love shown by our God to mankind should constrain all of us who are followers and disciples of Christ, to do… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
Protestantism came and gave a great blow to the religious and ritualistic rhythm of the year, in human life. Non-conformity almostfinished the… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Patriotism, or the peculiar relation of an individual to his country, is like the family instinct. In the child it is a… — George William Curtis Copy Share Image
The plague of mankind is the fear and rejection of diversity: monotheism, monarchy, monogamy and, in our age, monomedicine. The belief that… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
This is what I believe: That I am I. That my soul is a dark forest. That my known self will never… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Haven't you got it through your head that human thought is a thing of the past & that philosophy is worse than… — Blaise Cendrars Copy Share Image
Science has an uncomfortable way of pushing human beings from center stage. In our prescientific stories, humans began as the focal point… — Seth Lloyd Copy Share Image
So that in the first place, I put for a general inclination of all mankind a perpetual and restless desire of Power… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time; our sense of that, not a disinterested love of science,… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
The generality of mankind is lazy. What distinguishes men of genuine achievement from the rest of us is not so much their… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
The Gospel is not about man searching for GOD but GOD reaching out to mankind! — Lou Engle Copy Share Image
The fact that everybody in the world dreams every night ties all mankind together. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
The individual succumbs, but he does not die if he has left something to mankind. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Nothing would be more profitable to us than a right history of mankind. — Adam Weishaupt Copy Share Image
I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
