I work very much on the principle that anything created by mankind has mischief and error hardwired into its inception. — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
In absolute terms, I am the most legally persecuted man of all times, in the whole history of mankind, worldwide. — Silvio Berlusconi Copy Share Image
That experience is the parent of wisdom is an adage the truth of which is recognized by the wisest as well as… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The world of men show like a comedy without laughter: populations, interests, government, history; 't is all toy figures in a toyhouse. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Few things are needful to make the wise man happy, but nothing satisfies the fool; - and this is the reason why… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Since the dawn of history, mankind has honoured and respected brave and honest people. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
In civilized society we all depend upon each other, and our happiness is very much owing to the good opinion of mankind. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Few consider how much we are indebted to government, because few can represent how wretched mankind would be without it. — Francis Atterbury Copy Share Image
Men are qualified for civil liberties in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their appetites: in proportion as… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
It appeared to me that the dignity of which human existence is capable is not attainable by devotion to the mechanism of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Plato and his objectivistic successors ... preserved the awareness of differences that pragmatism has been invented to deny the difference between thinking… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
“I remembered the old doctor, - "It would be interesting for science to watch the mental changes of individuals, on the spot."… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
not to find out new principles, or new arguments, never before thought of . . . but to place before mankind the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Man was not made for the service of economies; economies were made to serve mankind; and men and women were made -… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
There is about as much educational benefit to be gained in studying dolphins in captivity as there would be studying mankind by… — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
I've never believed in the end of times. We are mankind. Our footprints are on the moon. When the last trumpet sounds… — Travis Beacham Copy Share Image
“Mankind has never been in this position before. Without having improved appreciably in virtue or enjoying wiser guidance, it has got into… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
For many people during many centuries, mankind's history before the coming of Christianity was the history of the Jews and what they… — John Roberts Copy Share Image
Yes, Eden was beautiful- and if I had to squeeze through corporeal keyholes to crash it- so be it. (Hasn’t it bothered… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
I do not overlook the fact that there are irrationalists who love mankind, and that not all forms of irrationalism engender criminality.… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
But my belief is growing that our political and social evils are remediable, if only all of us who want a change… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
That atomic energy though harnessed by American scientists and army men for destructive purposes may be utilised by other scientists for humanitarian… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I don't think drugs are a problem; I think they're a symptom. As long as Americans are empty, spiritually, emotionally, morally empty,… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Any sensible ruler would have killed off Leonard, and Lord Vetinari was extremely sensible and often wondered why he had not done… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I cannot conceive such a Being could make such a Species as the human, merely to live and die on this earth — John Adams Copy Share Image
Mankind is destined to step beyond his earthly bonds just as his ancestors once crawled out of the seas. Colonizing new worlds… — Charles Sheldon Copy Share Image
Liberty ... is one of the most valuable blessings that Heaven has bestowed upon mankind. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A man who wants to control his animal passions easily does so if he controls his palate. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
At the very beginning of my creative life I loved humanity. I wanted to do something good for mankind. Soon I understood… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
Is it true that one travels in order to know mankind? It is easier to get to know other people at home,… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
...one can hardly deny that mankind has a common store of thoughts which is transmitted from one generation to another. — Gottlob Frege Copy Share Image
“Our gods are here, below, with us---in the office, the kitchen, the workshop, the toilet; the gods have become like us. Ergo,… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
...so mankind is now trapped by the failure of its energies and by the depletion of those natural resources that men have… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
Until mankind realizes that there is, in truth, no good, and there is, in truth, no evil-there will be no peace. — Shirley MacLaine Copy Share Image
Friend Tim shakes hands with Perfect Specimen of Mankind. Will never wash right hand again. — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
Not nature, but the "genius of mankind," has knotted the hangman's noose with which it can execute itself at any moment. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
If Euclid's point, though incapable of being drawn by any human agency, has an imperishable value, my picture has its own for… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Whoever in prayer can say, 'Our Father', acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole race of mankind. — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
If no God, mankind is a set of bi-pedal carbon units of mostly water. And nothing else — Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image