I always seek the good that is in people and leave the bad to Him who made mankind and knows how to… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Politics and the fate of mankind are formed by men without ideals and without greatness...” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Plato is philosophy, and philosophy, Plato,--at once the glory and the shame of mankind, since neither Saxon nor Roman have availed to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Believing that the dream of freedom, brotherhood, and peace for all mankind will someday come true. — Abigail Van Buren Copy Share Image
When I observe other animals, I understand their behavior. I can't say the same for mankind. — Anthony D. Williams Copy Share Image
Mankind is still embryonic ... [man is] the bud from which something more complicated and more centered than man himself should emerge. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
I am certainly convinced that it is one of the greatest impulses of mankind to arrive at something higher than a natural… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
Only the naive inflationist's could believe that government could enrich mankind through fiat money. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Because we live in a largely free society, we tend to forget how limited is the span of time and the part… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The Grecians and Romans were strongly possessed of the spirit of liberty but not the principle, for at the time they were… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,--I mean good-nature,--are of daily… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
The institution of religion exists only to keep mankind in order, and to make men merit the goodness of God by their… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Before this century shall run out, journalism will be the whole press. Mankind will write their book day by day, hour by… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
In a world which furnishes so many employments which are useful, and so many which are amusing, it is our own fault… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Civilisation will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind unite together… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue,… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
For the Humanist, . . . head and heart . . . must function together. . . . The constitution of the… — Corliss Lamont Copy Share Image
“It sounds like a fairy-tale, but not only that; this story of what man by his science and practical inventions has achieved… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The French Revolution, Fichte's Theory of Knowledge, and Goethe's Wilhelm Meister are the three greatest tendencies of the age. Whoever takes offence… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
It must be admitted that the tendency of the human race toward liberty is largely thwarted, especially in France. This is greatly… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
It is justly considered as the greatest excellency of art to imitate nature; but it is necessary to distinguish those parts of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
What are wanted ...are not Constitutions and Revolutions, nor all sorts of Conferences and Congresses, nor the many ingenious devices for submarine… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Sad hours and glad hours, and all hours, pass over; One thing unshaken stays: Life, that hath Death for spouse, hath Chance… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
Usually without realizing it, our ultimate peace starts and ends in the authority of God alone, which means the solution to living… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
O Poverty, thy thousand ills combined Sink not so deep into the generous mind, As the contempt and laughter of mankind. — Juvenal Copy Share Image
Man is the broken giant, and in all his weakness both his body and his mind are invigorated by habits of conversation… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I happen to think that American politics is one of the noblest arts of mankind; and I cannot do anything else but… — Theodore White Copy Share Image
“Believing passionately in the palpably not true... is the chief occupation of mankind.” — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
To err is common to all mankind, but having erred he is no longer reckless nor unblest who haven fallen into evil… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
It is still an open question as to whether mankind or insects shall ultimately inherit the earth. It is my opinion that… — Henry F. Ashurst Copy Share Image
all mankind, not excluding Americans, are sinners--miserable sinners, as even no few Bostonians themselves nowadays contritely respond in the liturgy. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The missing link between animals and a truly humane mankind is man himself, who does not yet see himself as a part… — Michael Fox Copy Share Image
“Mankind will not be perfect until it can create and destroy like God. It can already destroy: that's half the battle.” — Alexander Dumas Copy Share Image
In a world wracked by hatred, economic crisis, and political tension, America remains mankind's best hope. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“People are like the tall grasses of the field. They will bend in whatever direction the wind blows.” — Molly Collier Copy Share Image
Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share… — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
The goal of the World Federalists is peace through unity of government. We must support their vision of oneness in diversity, for… — Jean Stapleton Copy Share Image
The bulk of mankind have indeed, in all countries in their turn, been made the prey of ambition. — Mercy Otis Warren Copy Share Image
I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Men have desired to gain knowledge and then power so that they can accomplish their goals of conquest, control, and manipulation. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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