All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones. In my opinion, there never was a good war or a bad… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Present company excluded, this looked to be the most pleasant detention ever experienced by mankind. Further proof that librarians should run the… — Heather Brewer Copy Share Image
In dedicating his estate to the honoring of endeavors that benefit mankind, Alfred Nobel expressed a lifelong concern that is even more… — Stanford Moore Copy Share Image
Love binds people too, in matrimony's sacred bonds where chaste lovers are met, and friends cement their trust and friendship. How happy… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for… — Robert Francis Kennedy Copy Share Image
Each lodge is an oasis if equality and good will in a desert of strife, working to wield mankind into a great… — Joseph Fort Newton Copy Share Image
We must not confuse religion with God, or technology with science. Religion stands in relationship to God as technology does in relation… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
“What a Chimera is man! What a novelty, a monster, a chaos, a contradiction, a prodigy! Judge of all things, an imbecile… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Books seem to me to be pestilent things, and infect all that trade in them...with something very perverse and brutal. Printers, binders,… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Its guilt therefore in these cases, is not to be measure by its effects on the happiness of mankind; nor is it… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
Through all history, from the beginning, a noble army of martyrs have fought fiercely and fallen bravely for that unseen mistress, their… — George William Curtis Copy Share Image
To higher or lower ends, they [the majority of mankind] move too often with something of a sad countenance, with hurried and… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
“the phantom of the man-who-would-understand, the lost brother, the twin --- for him did we leave our mothers, deny our sisters, over… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
[Golf]is deceptively simple, endlessly complicated. A child can play it well, and a grown man can never master it. Any single round… — Arnold Palmer Copy Share Image
“To love mankind for the sake of God-that has been the most nobel and far-fetched feeling yet achieved by human beings. The… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Your pain is not prescribed by your creator, He is the healer thus not giver of misery. We are victims of others;… — Zarina Bibi Copy Share Image
We have built a government so large and so expensive here in Washington that not even the richest economy in the history… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
The reasons for legal intervention in favour of children apply not less strongly to the case of those unfortunate slaves and victims… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Man has regarded woman as his tool. She has learnt to be his tool and in the end found it is easy… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The question of armaments, whether on land or sea, is the most immediately and intensely practical question connected with the future fortunes… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Destitution and excessive luxury develop apparently the same ideals, the same marauding attitude towards mankind, the intensity of struggle for material goods,… — Alice James Copy Share Image
It isn't pleasant to surrender to the hegemony of a nation which is still wild and primitive, and to concede the absolute… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
Hardly any original thoughts on mental or social subjects ever make their way among mankind or assume their proper importance in the… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Any scientist of any age who wants to make important discoveries must study important problems. Dull or piffling problems yield dull or… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
Propaganda must appeal to mankind's better judgment and to the necessary belief in a better future. For this belief, the valley of… — Christian Lous Lange Copy Share Image
The most unhappy of all men is the man who cannot tell what he is going to do, who has got no… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
My opinion of mankind is founded upon the mournful fact that, so far as I can see, they find within themselves the… — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
How will it end?... a vision of a universal religion, which will embrace all creeds; a universal government which will embrace all… — Carl H. Claudy Copy Share Image
Resort to science has rendered modern war so destructive of life and property that it presents a new problem to mankind, such,… — John Hessin Clarke Copy Share Image
Forget the noose. Forget the Iron Maiden. Forget the electric chair or the guillotine. The mind was mankind's most painful torture chamber,… — Tiffanie DeBartolo Copy Share Image
Because I have confidence in the power of truth and in the spirit, I believe in the future of mankind. Affirmation of… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Music is a manifestation of the human spirit, similar to language. Its greatest practitioners have conveyed to mankind things not possible to… — Zoltan Kodaly Copy Share Image
In prehistoric times, mankind often had only two choices in crisis situations: fight or flee. In modern times, humor offers us a… — Robert Orben Copy Share Image
What does the artist do? He draws connections. He ties the invisible threads between things. He dives into history, be it the… — Anselm Kiefer Copy Share Image
The whole social structure is now tumbling down, dethroning its God, undermining all its certainties. All this, wonderfully enough, is being done… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
In the early ages of the world, according to the scripture chronology, there were no kings; the consequence of which was there… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I question if Epicurus and Hume have done mankind a greater service by the looseness of their doctrines than by the purity… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country.… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
To us Americans much has been given; of us much is required. With all our faults and mistakes, it is our strength… — Norman Thomas Copy Share Image
The history of the human race, viewed as a whole, may be regarded as the realization of a hidden plan of nature… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image