Asks Quote by William Hazlitt

Mankind are creatures of books, as well as of other circumstances; and such they eternally remain,--proofs, that the race is a noble and believing…

— Leigh Hunt

Race is the idea that a human being is more superior than another human being, race in society grants illusional rights to mistreat each…

— Jeremy Limn

It is a curious fact that of all the illusions that beset mankind none is quite so curious as that tendency to suppose that…

— Elbert Hubbard

Mankind are very odd creatures: one half censure what they practice, the other half practice what they censure; the rest always say and do…

— Benjamin Franklin

We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others,…

— Walter Winchell

“There are no superior or inferior races. No one is intrinsically inferior or superior. All have the same value as creatures of god. Those…

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

Mankind are dastardly when they meet with opposition.

— Benjamin Franklin

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

— Thomas Jefferson

Races are very often invented from ignorance, or for evil purposes.

— Francis Lieber

“Before dehumanizing a population, we set them apart as a "race." That is, a variety of people who are fundamentally different from "us." The…

— David Livingstone Smith

For the most part we stupidly confound one man with another. The dull distinguish only races or nations, or at most classes, but the…

— Henry David Thoreau

Mankind are apt to be strongly prejudiced in favor of whatever is countenanced by antiquity, enforced by authority, and recommended by custom.

— Robert Hall