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The universalists, the idealists, the Utopians all aim too high. They give promises of an unattainable paradise, and by doing so they deceive mankind. Whatever…
— Adolf Hitler
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Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family. But here…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Mankind is becoming a single unit, and that for a unit to fight against itself is suicide.
— Havelock Ellis
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If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.
— Ludwig von Mises
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Mankind deserves sacrifice - but not of mankind.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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The desire to know is natural to good men.
— Leonardo da Vinci
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God gave me my money. I believe the power to make money is a gift from God . to be developed and used to the…
— John D. Rockefeller
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The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain.
— Khalil Gibran
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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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There was one who thought himself above me, and he was above me until he had that thought.
— Elbert Hubbard
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It is a noteworthy fact that kicking and beating have played so considerable a part in the habits which necessity has imposed on mankind in…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Apology is mankind's nearest course to perfection.
— Wes Fesler
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That atomic energy though harnessed by American scientists and army men for destructive purposes may be utilised by other scientists for humanitarian purposes is undoubtedly…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Genuine love will always feel urged to communicate joy - to be a joy-giver. Mankind needs joy....
— Lawrence G. Lovasik
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The great enemy of the salvation of man, in my opinion, never invented a more effective means of limiting Christianity from the world than by…
— Benjamin Rush
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Christianity is the only true and perfect religion; and... in proportion as mankind adopt its principles and obey its precepts, they will be wise and…
— Benjamin Rush
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I know that love is ultimately the only answer to mankind's problems. And I'm going to talk about it everywhere I go. I know it…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Anyone who has gone through great suffering is bound to have a greater sympathy and understanding of the problems of mankind.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the people, and what God has…
— Phillips Brooks
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There is sense in hoping for recognition in a distant future only when we take it for granted that mankind will remain essentially unchanged, and…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Those things which we call extraordinary, remarkable, or unusual may make history, but they do not make real life. After all, to do well those…
— Howard W. Hunter
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...he [Muhammad] declared undistinguishing and exterminating war, as a part of his religion, against all the rest of mankind...The precept of the Koran is, perpetual…
— John Quincy Adams
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I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.
— Samuel Johnson
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If God lets me live, I shall attain more than Mummy ever has done, I shall not remain insignificant, I shall work in the world…
— Anne Frank
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If mankind is to profit freely from the small and sporadic crop of the heroically gifted it produces, it will have to cultivate the delicate…
— Wilfred Trotter
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