Mankind Quotes

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It would be one of the greatest triumphs of humanity, one of the most tangible liberations from the constraints of nature to which mankind is… — Sigmund Freud
I shall attempt to prove two things: first, that the actions and dispositions of mankind are the offspring of circumstances and events, and not of… — William Godwin
Nearly all mankind is more or less unhappy because nearly all do not know the true Self. Real happiness abides in Self-knowledge alone. All else… — Ramana Maharshi
Now for good or ill, California is the place where trends tend to be set in Western civilization - if civilization indeed it is. California,… — P.J. O'Rourke
You are Americans. You love this country. Together we are entrusted with the principles that represent mankind's greatest political and social achievement. — Paul Tsongas
The ideal of faith in ourselves is of the greatest help to us. If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I… — Swami Vivekananda
No longer enslaved or made dependent by force of law, the great majority are so by force of property; they are still chained to a… — John Stuart Mill
After all, the only thing that is going to save mankind is if enough people live their lives for something or someone other than themselves. — Leon Uris
I will lead mankind into a new world! You cannot kill me! No man can murder me! — Cesare Borgia
The Air Age faces mankind with a sharp choice - the choice between Winged Peace or Winged Death. It''s up to you. — Billy Bishop
Once you have a truly massive amount of information integrated as knowledge, then the human-software system will be superhuman, in the same sense that mankind… — Douglas Lenat
I shall endeavour still further to prosecute this inquiry, an inquiry I trust not merely speculative, but of sufficient moment to inspire the pleasing hope… — Edward Jenner
I am a man and all that affects mankind concerns me — Bhagat Singh
All mankind is one volume. When one man dies, a chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language. And… — John Donne
The history of mankind is the history of ideas. For it is ideas, theories, and doctrines that guide human action, determine the ultimate ends men… — Ludwig von Mises
Possibly the best suggestion in condensed form, as to how to live, was given by my old Headmaster, Dr. Haig Brown, in 1904, when he… — Robert Baden-Powell
He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into the short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory,… — Samuel Johnson
Pessimism is a very easy way out because it is a short view of life. If you look at what is happening around us today,… — Robertson Davies
The Gods in bounty work up storms about us, that give mankind occasion to exert their hidden strength, and throw our into practice virtues that… — Joseph Addison
I am going to explain to you why we went to war. Why mankind always does to war. It is not social or political. It… — John Fowles
Much had he read, Much more had he seen; he studied from the life, And in th' original perus'd mankind. — John Armstrong
Life is one, said the Buddha, and the Middle Way to the end of suffering in all its forms is that which leads to the… — Christmas Humphreys
For forms of government let fools contest; Whate'er is best administer'd is best. For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong… — Alexander Pope
Numbers are intellectual witnesses that belong only to mankind. — Honore de Balzac
O sancta simplicitas! What strange simplification and falsification mankind lives on! One can never cease to marvel once one has acquired eyes for this marvel!… — Friedrich Nietzsche

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