Character Quote by Georg Simmel

Gratitude, as it were, is the moral memory of mankind. In this respect, it differs from faithfulness by being more practical and impulsive: although…

— Georg Simmel

“Whatever the legend, somewhere in the shadows of its memory mankind knew that its glory began with one and that that one paid for…

— The Fountainhead Ayn Rand

If all the historic books of the Bible were blotted from the memory of mankind, nothing of value would be lost..

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Each man, therefore, is the entire world, bearing within his genes a memory of all mankind. Or as Leibniz put it: ‘Every living substance…

— Paul Auster

Every superior personality, and every superior performance, has, for the average of mankind, something mysterious.

— Georg Simmel

On the dogmas of religion, as distinguished from moral principles, all mankind, from the beginning of the world to this day, have been quarrelling,…

— Thomas Jefferson

While it is generally agreed that the visible expressions and agencies are necessary instruments, civilization seems to depend far more fundamentally upon the moral…

— Mary Ritter Beard

The greatest threat to mankind comes from the renunciation of individual scruple in favor of institutional denominators. . . . Real heroism lies, as…

— John le Carre

It is the moral element contained in it that alone gives value and dignity to a religion, and only in so far as its…

— Felix Adler

It is not till it is discovered that high individual incomes will not purchase the mass of mankind immunity from cholera, typhus, and ignorance,…

— R. H. Tawney

Pure, hard-core liberals believe in a superior race. They think they're it. They believe they're more intelligent than the general run of mankind, better…

— Dean Koontz

Greek philosophers considered sport a religious and civic-in a word, moral-undertaking. Sport, they said, is morally serious because mankind's noblest aim is the loving…

— George Will