Best Mankind Qoutes
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The fates have given mankind a patient soul.
— Homer
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Our survival, the future of our civilization, possibly the existence of mankind, depends on American leadership
— Charles Lindbergh
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What vast additions to the conveniences and comforts of living might mankind have acquired, if the money spent in wars had been employed in works…
— Benjamin Franklin
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Religion is the belief in an ever-living God, that is, in a Divine Mind and Will ruling the Universe and holding moral relations with mankind.
— James Martineau
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.
— Luc de Clapiers
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She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much…
— Oliver Goldsmith
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However horrible the incidents of war may be, the soldier who is called upon to offer and to give his life for his country is…
— Douglas MacArthur
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Our great error is that we suppose mankind to be more honest than they are.
— Alexander Hamilton
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A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Night's deepest gloom is but a calm; that soothes the weary mind: The labored days restoring balm; the comfort of mankind.
— Leigh Hunt
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I weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better.
— William Wycherley
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Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness.
— Thomas Carlyle
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Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness.
— Jean Paul
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Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind.
— Joseph Addison
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Is man a savage at heart, skinned o'er with fragile Manners? Or is savagery but a faint taint in the natural man's gentility, which erupts…
— John Barth
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I do not value any view of the universe into which man and the institutions of man enter very largely and absorb much of the…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Man desired concord; but nature knows better what is good for his species; she desires discord. Man wants to live easy and content; but nature…
— Immanuel Kant
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Human nature, if healthy, demands excitement; and if it does not obtain its thrilling excitement in the right way, it will seek it in the…
— Oswald Chambers
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Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock. Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient world to our purposes, ignorant…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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Occident: The part of the world lying west (or east) of the Orient. It is largely inhabited by Christians, a powerful subtribe of the Hypocrites,…
— Ambrose Bierce
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So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing the agonies…
— Russell Baker
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The UN wasn't created to take mankind into paradise, but rather, to save humanity from hell.
— Dag Hammarskjold
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Mankind is at its best when it is most free. This will be clear if we grasp the principle of liberty. We must recall that…
— Dante Alighieri
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