For the vast majority of mankind's history, economic activity consisted of finding energy and using energy. — Li Lu Copy Share Image
My idealism is clearly one reason I'm an artist. I see art as one of mankind's more sublime acts, as a vital… — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
Every king springs from a race of slaves, and every slave had kings among his ancestors — Plato Copy Share Image
I see that mankind still survives after all its attempts to destroy itself and so I surmise that it is the law… — David Richo Copy Share Image
Poverty can turn a person into a flaming torch for change and revolution, without which mankind would come to a standstill. — Jean Sasson Copy Share Image
The sooner mankind realizes that this universe, this energy, is thought suggestive, the sooner mankind will advance. — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
Study men laying down their lives without hurting anyone else in the cause of their country's freedom. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Remember, for a society to truly progress we don't need woman or man, we need a fully-fledged human - nothing short of… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Mankind is engaged in an eternal quest for that ‘something else' he hopes will bring him happiness, complete and unending.For those individual… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
The world can therefore seize the opportunity (the Persian Gulf crisis) to fulfill the long held promise of a New World Order… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
What we want is to destroy our false, inorganic connections, especially those related to money, and re-establish the living organic connections, with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A revolution is to bring on change and we're spiritual people trying to bring on spiritual change. It might sound like I'm… — Damian Marley Copy Share Image
China, with her five thousand years of history, her vast territory and her enormous population stands like a mountain peak among the… — Chiang Kai-shek Copy Share Image
We are delighted to find a person who values us as we value ourselves, and distinguishes us from the rest of mankind,… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
For mankind as a whole, a possession infinitely more valuable than individual life is our genetic heritage, our link with past and… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
In all the known history of Mankind, advances have been made primarily in physical technology; in the capacity of handling the inanimate… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
A bureaucracy is sure to think that its duty is to augment official power, official business, or official members, rather than to… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
“Until every soul is freely permitted to investigate every book, and creed, and dogma for itself, the world cannot be free. Mankind… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“What is the future of men who have lost sight of the past? Earl Hollsopple lived on the edge of civilization in… — Jennifer Ott Copy Share Image
“The truly apocalyptic view of the world is that things do not repeat themselves. It isn’t absurd, e.g., to believe that the… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Now that physics is proving the intelligence of the universe what are we to do about the stupidity of mankind? I include… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Religion is as necessary to reason as reason is to religion. The one cannot exist without the other. A reasoning being would… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Mankind occurs as male or female, as something or nothing. Woman has no share in ontological reality, no relation to the thing-in-itself,… — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Religion and science, then, in my analysis are the two great sister forces which have pulled, and are still pulling, mankind onward… — Robert Andrews Millikan Copy Share Image
The situation of America is new in the annals of mankind; her affairs cry haste, and speed must answer them. — John Paul Jones Copy Share Image
Either what we hold to be right and good and true IS right and good and true, for all mankind, or we're… — Sean Connery Copy Share Image
Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Truth is inclusive of all the virtues, is older than sects and schools, and, like charity, more ancient than mankind. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
The history of Napoleon now becomes, for 12 momentous years, the history of mankind. — John Holland Rose Copy Share Image
Among true and real friends, all is common; and were ignorance and envy and superstition banished from the world, all mankind would… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
No one should dogmatize about the capacity of human nature for degradation or exaltation. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
To speak or do anything that shall concern mankind, one must speak and act as if well, or from that grain of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Music and symbols, they're older than human race. Prehuman beings used them to teach early mankind.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
God invented mankind because he loved silly stories. Ralph Steadman I like being absurd. — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
