Mankind Quotes

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Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way to the common feelings of mankind. — Edward Gibbon
The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately,… — Thomas Jefferson
Let us, then, fellow citizens, unite with one heart and one mind. Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which liberty… — Thomas Jefferson
In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in… — Thomas Jefferson
The gratification which affluence of wealth, extent of power, and eminence of reputation confer, must be always, by their own nature, confined to a very… — Samuel Johnson
There is reason to suspect, that the distinctions of mankind have more show than value, when it is found that all agree to be weary… — Samuel Johnson
The power, indeed, of every individual is small, and the consequence of his endeavours imperceptible, in a general prospect of the world. Providence has given… — Samuel Johnson
The gift of God to this enlightened age is the knowledge of the oneness of mankind and of the fundamental oneness of religion. War shall… — Abdu'l-BahÃ¡
There are some solitary wretches who seem to have left the rest of mankind, only, as Eve left Adam, to meet the devil in private. — Alexander Pope
Man is nature's sole mistake. — W. S. Gilbert
We are perverse creatures and never satisfied. — Nan Fairbrother
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race. — Mark Twain
It is the nature of mortals to kick a fallen man. — Aeschylus
Acedia is not in every dictionary; just in every heart. — Mignon McLaughlin
God doesn't measure His bounty, but oh how we do! — Mignon McLaughlin
O poor mortals, how ye make this earth bitter for each other. — Thomas Carlyle
We have a world for each one, but we do not have a world for all. — Antonio Porchia
Man, when he is merely what he seems to be, is almost nothing. — Antonio Porchia
In creating the human brain, evolution has wildly overshot the mark. — Arthur Koestler
That in man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness. — Antonio Porchia
The thief and the murderer follow nature just as much as the philanthropist. — Thomas Huxley
God has given a great deal to man, but man would like something from man. — Antonio Porchia
We have no choice but to be guilty. God is unthinkable if we are innocent. — Archibald MacLeish
Nothing feebler does earth nurture than man, Of all things breathing and moving. — Homer
The human species is made up of seven billion subspecies each consisting of one specimen. — Robert Breault

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