Mankind Quotes

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The less men are fettered by tradition, the greater becomes the inward activity of their motives, and greater again in proportion to their outer restlessness. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else. — Bertrand Russell
In men this blunder still you find; all think their little set mankind. — Hannah More
Man is at the bottom an animal, midway a citizen, and at the top divine. But the climate of this world is such that few… — Henry Ward Beecher
The misery which follows pleasure is the pleasure which follows misery. The pleasure and misery of mankind revolve like a wheel. — Akkineni Nagarjuna
In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity. — Alexander Pope
Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts. — Plotinus
The efforts of governments alone will never be enough. In the end, the people must choose and the people must help themselves. — John F. Kennedy
The populace drags down the gods to their own level. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
God is what man finds that is divine in himself. It is the best way man can behave in the ordinary occasions of life, and… — Max Lerner
If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom. The two are inseparable partners in the great adventure of humanity. — Robert Kennedy
Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and a sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery. — Joseph Wood Krutch
If you're anxious to shine in the high aesthetic line as a man of culture rare, you must get up all the germs of the… — W. S. Gilbert
Every man carries the entire form of human condition. — Michel de Montaigne
What men call civilization is the condition of present customs; what they call barbarism, the condition of past ones. — Anatole France
A man may have strong humanitarian and democratic principles, but if he happens to have been brought up as a bath-taking, shirt-changing lover of fresh… — Aldous Huxley
A cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap. — Hermann Hesse
The mass of mankind is divided into two classes, the Sancho Panza's who have a sense for reality, but no ideals, and the Don Quixote's… — George Santayana
As vivacity is the gift of woman, gravity is that of men. — Joseph Addison

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