In short, I conceive that great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by the false estimates they have… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
As we grow older we become more conscious of the complexity, incoherence, and unreasonableness of human beings; this indeed is the only… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression. My conscience is… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
This bill, by vesting the power to withhold or terminate Federal funds, creates a concentration of power of economic coercion unequaled in… — Strom Thurmond Copy Share Image
There is a race between mankind and the universe. Mankind is trying to build bigger, better, faster, and more foolproof machines. The… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda. Perceiving the truth has always been… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Mankind never loses any good thing, physical, intellectual, or moral, till it finds a better, and then the loss is a gain.… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
You must strive to multiply bread so that it suffices for the tables of mankind, and not rather favor an artificial control… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
From a long view of the history of mankind, seen from, say, ten thousand years from now, there can be little doubt… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
If you are remembering evil against someone, then pray for him; and as you remove through prayer the pain of the remembrance… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
Money is an instrumentality of the profit motive and must be issued and backed only by private enterprisers. Economic and political perversities… — E.C. Riegel Copy Share Image
There is scarce any one invention, which this nation has produced in our age, but it has some way or other been… — Robert Hooke Copy Share Image
Christmas means 'giving,' and the gift without the giver is bare. Give of yourselves; give of your substance; give of your heart… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Pure, hard-core liberals believe in a superior race. They think they're it. They believe they're more intelligent than the general run of… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Although I have been prevented by outward circumstances from observing a strictly vegetarian diet, I have long been an adherent to the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The theory of Reincarnation, which originated in India, has been welcomed in other countries. Without doubt, it is one of the most… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral: a thing as simple and specious as a statue to… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Whatever may be the merits of a religious system, its effects upon the mass of mankind must depend in an important degree… — Benjamin Robbins Curtis Copy Share Image
The sure foundations of the state are laid in knowledge, not in ignorance; and every sneer at education, at culture, at book… — George William Curtis Copy Share Image
“And yet how simple it is: in one day, in one hour everything could be arranged at once! The chief thing is… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
I think because the show ["Grant MacLaren"] is essentially a hopeful show. The show says that as bleak as the future is,… — Eric McCormack Copy Share Image
I do not doubt that services like social games and coupons bring delight to peoples lives, and I mean no disrespect to… — Justin Rosenstein Copy Share Image
When God's people are removed from this earth, you might as well try to dam up Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Forecasts have been fundamental to mankind's journey from a small tribe on the African savannah to a species that can sling objects… — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
Every right has its responsibilities. Like the right itself, these responsibilities stem from no man-made law, but from the very nature of… — Lewis B. Schwellenbach Copy Share Image
People love destroying mankind, for some strange reason. You make a movie about mankind's destruction, you're going to fill seats. People just… — Michelle Rodriguez Copy Share Image
No peace and security among mankind-let alone common friendship-can ever exist as long as people think that governments get their authority from… — John Locke Copy Share Image
I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
We are participants, whether we would or not, in the life of the world… We are partners with the rest. What affects… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
We must recognize that the attempt to set forth the temporal course commonly referred to as the "evolution of mankind" is merely… — Jean Gebser Copy Share Image
After there is great trouble among mankind, a greater one is prepared. The great mover of the universe will renew time, rain,… — Nostradamus Copy Share Image
This type of man who is devoted to the study of wisdom is always most unlucky in everything, and particularly when it… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
Look at Christ, my dear friend: His life was divine through and through, full of self-denial, and He did everything for mankind,… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by difference of sentiment in religion appear to be… — George Washington Copy Share Image
It is the moral element contained in it that alone gives value and dignity to a religion, and only in so far… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
You see Christians and Muslims have one thing in common which they do not share with their other religions as far as… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
Faith means making a virtue out of not thinking. It's nothing to brag about; and those who preach faith and enable and… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Our ability to look back on the past, our need or desire to make sense of it, is both a blessing and… — James Robertson Copy Share Image
May the work for the further development of chemical science, which has its strongest roots in this beautiful, strong and hard-working country… — Otto Wallach Copy Share Image