Among Mankind Quotes

24 Among Mankind quotes by 23 unique authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Today there's more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings. — Juvenal
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
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
Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally, among mankind. — Thomas Carlyle
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
The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind. — John Stuart Mill
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
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
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
Yes, yes," said the Beast, "my heart is good, but still I am a monster." Among mankind," says Beauty, "there are many that deserve that… — Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont
It put me upon reflecting how little repining there would be among mankind at any condition of life, if people would rather compare their condition… — Daniel Defoe
What is a Poet? He is a man speaking to men: a man, it is true, endued with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm and tenderness,… — William Wordsworth
Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by a difference of sentiments in religion appear to be the most… — George Washington

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