Among Mankind Quotes
24 quotes by 23 authors
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no one more sincerely wishes the spread of information among mankind than I do, and none has greater confidence in it's effect towards supporting free…
— Thomas Jefferson
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I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind, if he first forms a…
— Benjamin Franklin
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The institution of delegated power implies that there is a portion of virtue and honor among mankind which may be a reasonable foundation of confidence.
— Alexander Hamilton
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It is unreasonable to expect science to produce a system of ethics-ethics are a kind of highway code for traffic among mankind-and the fact that…
— Sigmund Freud
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Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest…
— Sophocles
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There is no loftier mission than to approach the Divinity nearer than other men, and to disseminate the divine rays among mankind.
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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After there is great trouble among mankind, a greater one is prepared. The great mover of the universe will renew time, rain, blood, thirst, famine,…
— Nostradamus
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But at power or wealth, for the sake of which wars, and all kinds of strife, arise among mankind, we do not aim; we desire…
— Sallust
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Superstitions and belief in magic are perennial in just the same way as religion, and something near to being universal among mankind; and why this…
— Bryan Magee
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Like the crow among mankind are the Zanj [African Blacks] for they are the worst of men and the most vicious of creatures in character…
— Al-Jahiz
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Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by difference of sentiment in religion appear to be the most inveterate…
— George Washington
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Today there's more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.
— Juvenal
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Drive my dead thoughts over the universe Like withered leaves to quicken a new birth! And, by the incantation of this verse, Scatter, as from…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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We profess to be republicans, and yet we neglect the only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government; that is, the universal…
— Benjamin Rush
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Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally, among mankind.
— Thomas Carlyle
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The more rapidly truth is spread among mankind the better it will be for them. Only let us be sure that it is the truth.
— Thomas Huxley
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The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
— John Stuart Mill
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I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
— Michel de Montaigne
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Remember that the best and greatest among mankind are those who do themselves no worldly good. Every successful man is more or less a selfish…
— Thomas Hardy
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The first among mankind will always be those who make something imperishable out of a sheet of paper, a canvas, a piece of marble, or…
— Alfred de Vigny
Who Wrote These Among Mankind Quotes
23 authors contributed a total of 24 Among Mankind Quotes as follows: