Mankind Quotes

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We are not to expect perfection in this world; but mankind, in modern times, have apparently made some progress in the science of government. — George Washington
Patriotism, or the peculiar relation of an individual to his country, is like the family instinct. In the child it is a blind devotion; in… — George William Curtis
There are only two great currents in the history of mankind: the baseness which makes conservatives and the envy which makes revolutionaries. — Edmond de Goncourt
No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it. — Samuel Johnson
Despotism has forever had a powerful hold upon the world. Autocratic government, not self-government, has been the prevailing state of mankind. The record of past… — Calvin Coolidge
Millions of men give all their energies, as well as their very souls, for the acquisition of gold. And this will continue as long as… — Robert Green Ingersoll
No one, I hope, can doubt my wish to see... all mankind exercising self-government, and capable of exercising it. But the question is not what… — Thomas Jefferson
Feelings of right and wrong that at first have their locus within the family gradually develop into a pattern for the tribe or city, then… — Corliss Lamont
The common sense of mankind demands that law shall not stop with the punishment of petty crimes by little people. It must also reach men… — Robert H. Jackson
Sleep, thou patron of mankind, Great physician of the mind Who does nor pain nor sorrow know, Sweetest balm of every woe. — Sophocles
In this vast universe There is but one supreme truth- That God is our friend! By that truth meaning is given To the remote stars,… — Joshua L. Liebman
We cannot learn men from books. — Benjamin Disraeli
Man must begin to the unitary principle of man - knowing that there are not separate men or separate individuals, but hat the whole man… — Walter Russell
The well-being of mankind, its peace and security, are unattainable unless and until its unity is firmly established. — BahÃ¡'u'llÃ¡h
That was the real secret of the Tarahumara: they'd never forgotten what it felt like to love running. They remembered that running was mankind's first… — Christopher McDougall
The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth. — Pliny the Elder
Happiness is more effectually dispensed to mankind under a republican form of government than any other. — George Washington
World dictatorship can be established only when the victory of socialism has been achieved in certain countries or groups of countries ... [and] when these… — Joseph Stalin
Mankind has tried the other two roads to peace - the road of political jealousy and the road of religious bigotry - and found them… — Garrett P. Serviss
Moral philosophy is nothing else but the science of what is good, and evil, in the conversation, and society of mankind. Good, and evil, are… — Thomas Hobbes
History shows that great economic and social forces flow like a tide over communities only half conscious of that which is befalling them. Wise statesmen… — John Stuart Mill
Omit a few of the most abstruse sciences, and mankind's study of man occupies nearly the whole field of literature. The burden of history is… — Unknown Author
The wealth of mankind is the wisdom they leave. — John Boyle O'Reilly
A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man… — Seneca the Younger
Our responsibility is to rally and lead the whole party and the Chinese people of all ethnic groups, take up this historic baton and continue… — Xi Jinping

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