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Mankind Quotes
As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly. - Samuel Johnson Quotes
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it. - Thomas Jefferson Quotes
I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people. - Desiderius Erasmus Quotes
I like to watch mankind in its futile attempt to understand the unknown, when they dont even understand that which they know. - Terrence Howard Quotes
Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it. - Samuel Johnson Quotes
It is a mistake to think that we can control the breeding of mankind in the long run by an appeal to conscience. - Garrett Hardin Quotes
Equal and united people can above all become a part of the civilization toward which mankind is moving. If we cannot be at the head of the column leading to such a civilization, there is certainly no need for us to be at is tail. - Slobodan Milosevic Quotes
Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man. - Alexander Pope Quotes
Let us embrace Science and the new technologies unfettered, for it is these which will liberate mankind from the myth of god, and free us from our age old fears, from disease, death and the sweat of labor. - Claude Vorilhon Quotes
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past. - Hannah Arendt Quotes
All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move. - Benjamin Franklin Quotes
It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own. - William Ralph Inge Quotes
Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history. - Jacques Yves Cousteau Quotes
The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt. - Henry George Quotes
Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror. - David Herbert Lawrence Quotes
In particular, for younger researchers on whom the future of mankind may depend. We believe that they are working with all the scientific wisdom at their disposal for the preservation of the inheritance of the earth and for the lasting survival of mankind. - Kenichi Fukui Quotes
The proper study of Mankind is Man. - Alexander Pope Quotes
To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue. - William Hazlitt Quotes
To mankind in general Macbeth and Lady Macbeth stand out as the supreme type of all that a host and hostess should not be. - Max Beerbohm Quotes
The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses. - Edith Sodergran Quotes
The histories of mankind are histories only of the higher classes. - Thomas Malthus Quotes
Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality. - Adam Clayton Powell Jr Quotes
There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second. - Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes
What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it. - Joseph Conrad Quotes
Mankind is made great or little by its own will. - Friedrich Schiller Quotes
We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive. - Albert Einstein Quotes
Wisdom alone is true ambitions aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed. - Alfred North Whitehead Quotes
To show the world what long experience gains, requires not courage, though it calls for pains; but at lifes outset to inform mankind is a bold effort of a valiant mind. - George Crabbe Quotes
Through all of history mankind has ingested psychedelic substances. Those substances exist to put you in touch with spirits beyond yourself, with the creator, with the creative impulse of the planet. - Ray Manzarek Quotes
The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased. - Alexander Hamilton Quotes
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