Mankind Quote by Thomas Jefferson

“[A]ll experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to…

— Declaration of Independence

There is no alleviation for the sufferings of mankind except veracity of thought and of action, and the resolute facing of the world as…

— Thomas Huxley

“Misfortune and experience are lost upon mankind, when they produce neither reflection nor reformation. Evils, like poisons, have their uses, and there are diseases…

— Thomas Paine

“If you say “do unto others as you would have them do unto you” Then evil will have it way upon the world. Thus…

— Jason Cain

The evil is not that you cannot change human nature. The evil is that human nature cannot change you.

— Barrows Dunham

Human nature is so constituted that the propensity for evil is always intensified by external circumstances, and the morality of the individual depends much…

— Mikhail Bakunin

“It is human nature. If we surround ourselves with evil, even evil becomes good to us. If we are not careful, that natural light…

— Bruce Newbold

God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.

— Saint Augustine

When there exists anywhere a state of suffering, a wrong, a condition of affairs that men of feeling deplore and that troubles the conscience…

— Charles Wagner

Tolerating evil leads only to more evil. And when good people stand by and do nothing while wickedness reigns, their communities will be consumed.

— Bob Riley

“Unfortunately, evil will never be wholly defeated.Mankind is faced with a continual struggle against evil. We believe that this is where the meaning of…

— Alija Izetbegović

The evil in the world is all of our own making, and it proceeds entirely from our ruthless, senseless, wasteful, destructive, and suicidal neglect…

— Thomas Merton