Mankind Quotes
3075 quotes by 1608 authors
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It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history…
— Hannah Arendt
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Most people would rather give than get affection.
— Aristotle
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This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
— Neil Armstrong
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Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.
— Neil Armstrong
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Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at…
— Saint Augustine
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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
— Saint Augustine
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Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of…
— Jane Austen
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A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress,…
— Irving Babbitt
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An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.
— Walter Bagehot
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Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to…
— Douglas Adams
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Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.
— Henry Adams
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The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when…
— James M. Barrie
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I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination…
— John Adams
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Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.
— John Adams
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What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little…
— Bruce Barton
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I would point out that if you're a believer in the Bible, one would have to say the Great Flood is an example of climate…
— Joe Barton
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Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed…
— Frederic Bastiat
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Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil…
— Samuel Adams
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
— Samuel Adams
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