Mankind Quote by Benjamin Franklin Download Open image “Mankind are dastardly when they meet with opposition.” — Benjamin Franklin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Mankind Nature of man Opposition
It is easy and dismally enervating to think of opposition as merely perverse or actually evil -- far more invigorating to see it as… — Jill Tweedie Copy Share Image
Mankind are a herd of knaves and fools. It is necessary to join the crowd, or get out of their way, in order not… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols -- it is all that they ask; the distinctions of right and wrong,… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
People more easily tolerate opposition than a contradiction — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
The common enemy of humanity is man. In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution,… — Aurelio Peccei Copy Share Image
Opposition doesn't mean to take arms and kill people and destroy everything. — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
I know why there must be opposition in all things. Adversity, if handled correctly, can be a blessing in our lives. We can learn… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
So many of us have become spectators to the evils of this world. Refusing to acknowledge that our lack of participation in life has… — Scarlet Koop Copy Share Image
“We have a perfect idea of a natural enemy when we think of the devil, because the enmity is perpetual, unalterable and unabateable. It… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
It is an oftentimes dangerous world, and not all of the people in it are nice, sweet and benevolent. It is the nature of… — Mike Medavoy Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Flowers are the alphabet of angels, whereby they write on the hills and fields mysterious truths. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I have thought that wild flowers might be the alphabet of angels, — whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious truths, which it… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
How do you become better tomorrow? By improving yourself, the world is made better. Be not afraid of growing too slowly. Be afraid of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“But on the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The good particular men may do separately, in relieving the sick, is small, compared with what they may do collectively. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Mankind have been slow to believe that order reigns in the universe-that the world is a cosmos and a chaos. — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
“If attempting to make the world a civilized one, makes you a bad woman in the eyes of the dumb patriarchal society, then, by… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
A time will come when the science of destruction shall bend before the arts of peace; when the genius which multiplies our powers, which… — Francois Arago Copy Share Image
Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind. — Horace Copy Share Image
Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Because I have confidence in the power of truth, and of the spirit, I have confidence in the future of mankind. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
The temptations of God were always more dangerous for mankind than those of Satan. — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
A South Korean inventor has finally created the robot that mankind has been waiting for. Scientists who have been worried about the robot apocalypse… — Mike Pesca Copy Share Image
My dreams were always small and puny. All I ever needed was a little house with a little picket fence by the sea. Little… — Imelda Marcos Copy Share Image
You should avoid hedging, at least that's what I think. You should be ashamed to die until you've made some contribution to mankind. — Vernon Johns Copy Share Image
