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Within the gentle absurdity of imperfect symmetry lies the truth of our lived experience; in every curve and straying edge, peace arises where the sublime meets the flawed.
Author:
Isla Oakwen
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Every surprise holds an emblematic dance, weathering between intention and impulse; elegance lies in the unfinished pirouettes pixilated across our timeline.
Author:
Linette Pavros
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Whisperries scatter silencemaker seeds, nurturfires drawn like constellations unknown; allied fully except their Vulturnish repose-- discrete revelations lifting obscuating mists among combustible er belongings in many-only knotegrass worlds.
Author:
Akisha Velgos
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I wrote my thesis on the benefits of war and very near got thrown out of college. But I can show you where the greatest advancement of mankind comes under stress and strain, not comfort.
Author:
Don Young
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We pray that henceforth not only Japan but all mankind may know the blessings of harmony and progress.
Author:
Shigeru Yoshida
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I think we're entering a very dangerous time. The West has set itself up, decided it's in charge, not for good intentions, not for the benefit of mankind.
Author:
Thom Yorke
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I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.
Author:
William Yeats
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The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language.
Author:
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain.
Author:
Walter Winchell
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What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.
Author:
Woodrow Wilson
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The question of armaments, whether on land or sea, is the most immediately and intensely practical question connected with the future fortunes of nations and of mankind.
Author:
Woodrow Wilson
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If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
Author:
E. Wilson
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Your future is still before you. Your land is a vast storehouse of mineral and agricultural wealth awaiting further development for the benefit of mankind. It potentialities are magnificent.
Author:
Charles Wilson
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God has never, in the history of mankind, allowed his name to go long offended.
Author:
David Wilkerson
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The combination of hatred and technology is the greatest danger threatening mankind.
Author:
Simon Wiesenthal
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Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.
Author:
Elie Wiesel
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I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.
Author:
Walt Whitman
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Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom the source of virtue, and of fame, obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.
Author:
William Whitehead
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Wisdom alone is true ambition's 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.
Author:
Alfred Whitehead
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Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
Author:
Alfred Whitehead
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Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
Author:
Alfred Whitehead
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I happen to think that American politics is one of the noblest arts of mankind; and I cannot do anything else but write about it.
Author:
Theodore White
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Our true nationality is mankind.
Author:
H. Wells
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Nothing would be more profitable to us than a right history of mankind.
Author:
Adam Weishaupt
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The head of every family will be what Abraham was, the patriarch, the priest and the unlettered lord of his family, and Reason will be the code of laws to all mankind.
Author:
Adam Weishaupt
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What love is to man, music is to the arts and to mankind.
Author:
Carl Weber
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Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.
Author:
George Washington
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My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.
Author:
George Washington
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The bulk of mankind have indeed, in all countries in their turn, been made the prey of ambition.
Author:
Mercy Warren
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The sexual abuse and exploitation of children is one of the most vicious crimes conceivable, a violation of mankind's most basic duty to protect the innocent.
Author:
James Walsh
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To the mass of mankind religion of some kind is a necessity.
Author:
Alfred Wallace
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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.
Author:
Claude Vorilhon
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It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.
Author:
Voltaire
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I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.
Author:
Leonardo Vinci
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The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.
Author:
Marquis Vauvenargues
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Emotions have taught mankind to reason.
Author:
Marquis Vauvenargues
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We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather.
Author:
Marquis Vauvenargues
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Mankind's role is to fulfil his heaven-sent purpose through a sincere heart that is in harmony with all creation and loves all things.
Author:
Morihei Ueshiba
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To see how Christ was prophesied and described therein, consider and mark, how that the kid or lamb must be with out spot or blemish; and so was Christ only of all mankind, in the sight of God and of his law.
Author:
William Tyndale
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Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.
Author:
Mark Twain
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You are Americans. You love this country. Together we are entrusted with the principles that represent mankind's greatest political and social achievement.
Author:
Paul Tsongas
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The Earth is the cradle of humanity, but mankind cannot stay in the cradle forever.
Author:
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
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Circumstances give in reality to every political principle, its distinguishing colour, and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.
Author:
David Trimble
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At the same time it offered the hope, as it still does, that improved understanding could better the lot of mankind. For me, growing up in the 1930s, the two motivations powerfully reinforced each other.
Author:
James Tobin
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Mankind's problems can no longer be solved by national governments. What is needed is world government.
Author:
Jan Tinbergen
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Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.
Author:
John Tillotson
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Ingratitude is treason to mankind.
Author:
James Thomson
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To us Americans much has been given; of us much is required. With all our faults and mistakes, it is our strength in support of the freedom our forefathers loved which has saved mankind from subjection to totalitarian power.
Author:
Norman Thomas
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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
Author:
Jonathan Swift
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It is not necessary to argue to those for whom I write that the two great needs of mankind, that all men may be lifted up into the light of the highest Christian civilization, are, first, a pure, spiritual Christianity, and second, civil liberty.
Author:
Josiah Strong
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Mankind advances only through struggle.
Author:
Gustav Stresemann
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A Shakespeare could have arisen only on English soil. In the same way, your great dramatists and poets express the nature and essence of the Norwegian people, but they also express that which is universally valid for all mankind.
Author:
Gustav Stresemann
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The great men of a nation reach out to all mankind. They are unifying, not divisive; internationally conciliating and still great nationally.
Author:
Gustav Stresemann
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All the forms of civil polity have been tried by mankind, except one, and that seems to have been reserved in Providence to be realized in America.
Author:
Ezra Stiles
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
Author:
Robert Stevenson
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Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
Author:
Robert Stevenson
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In a World where people are surrounded by darkness, ignorance and fear, it is a sign of hope to be celebrating Islam's message of peace and light, and the last great Messenger, born and chosen to deliver them to all mankind.
Author:
Cat Stevens
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God invented mankind because he loved silly stories.
Author:
Ralph Steadman
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To live for a principle, for the triumph of some reform by which all mankind are to be lifted up to be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
Author:
Elizabeth Stanton
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It is probable that for a long time to come the mass of mankind in civilized countries will find it both necessary and advantageous to labor for wages, and to accept the condition of hired laborers.
Author:
Leland Stanford
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Legislation has been and is still directed towards the protection of wealth, rather than towards the far more important interests of labor on which everything of value to mankind depends.
Author:
Leland Stanford
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Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.
Author:
Joseph Stalin
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Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.
Author:
Sophocles
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The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
Author:
Sophocles
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The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
Author:
Alexander Solzehnitsyn
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The object of preaching is to constantly remind mankind of what they keep forgetting; not to supply the intellect, but to fortify the feebleness of human resolutions.
Author:
Sydney Smith
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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.
Author:
Logan Smith
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I'm not surprised that Spielberg was able to capture the heroism of Schindler; so many of his movies are about the better part of mankind.
Author:
Gene Siskel
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A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
Author:
Isaac Singer
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The proper study of mankind is the science of design.
Author:
Herbert Simon
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Every superior personality, and every superior performance, has, for the average of mankind, something mysterious.
Author:
Georg Simmel
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If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism, a new path must be found, a new civilization based on some other method than technology.
Author:
Clifford Simak
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The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind ahead even more than teamwork.
Author:
Igor Sikorsky
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The future may be made up of many factors but where it truly lies is in the hearts and minds of men. Your dedication should not be confined for your own gain, but unleashes your passion for our beloved country as well as for the integrity and humanity of mankind.
Author:
Li Shing
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A man has generally the good or ill qualities, which he attributes to mankind.
Author:
William Shenstone
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Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
Author:
George Shaw
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General consultant to mankind.
Author:
George Shaw
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What, man, defy the devil. Consider, he's an enemy to mankind.
Author:
William Shakespeare
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A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.
Author:
Lucius Seneca
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A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.
Author:
Lucius Seneca
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The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.
Author:
Walter Scott
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Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.
Author:
Albert Schweitzer
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I love mankind; it's people I can't stand.
Author:
Charles Schulz
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National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.
Author:
Arthur Schopenhauer
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The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.
Author:
Arthur Schopenhauer
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The public has been sold a bill of goods about the free market being a panacea for mankind.
Author:
Tom Scholz
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Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.
Author:
Karl Schlegel
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It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.
Author:
Karl Schlegel
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If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry.
Author:
Karl Schlegel
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Mankind is made great or little by its own will.
Author:
Friedrich Schiller
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All through the years since World War II, the Japanese people have, I am convinced, made strenuous efforts to preserve and promote world peace, contributing to the progress and prosperity of mankind.
Author:
Eisaku Sato
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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
Author:
George Santayana
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We peruse one ideal, that of bringing people together in peace, irrespective of race, religion and political convictions, for the benefit of mankind.
Author:
Juan Samaranch
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The creation of Physics is the shared heritage of all mankind. East and West, North and South have equally participated in it.
Author:
Abdus Salam
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Scientific thought and its creation is the common and shared heritage of mankind.
Author:
Abdus Salam
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The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
Author:
Marquis Sade
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It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.
Author:
Bertrand Russell
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Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
Author:
Bertrand Russell
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Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
Author:
Bertrand Russell
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With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.
Author:
Bertrand Russell
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The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
Author:
Bertrand Russell
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Visions describe what best should be, could be - if and when mankind has the will to make them real.
Author:
James Rouse
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For many years, I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning and architectural design suffers for lack of real and basic purpose. The ultimate purpose, it seems to me, must be the improvement of mankind.
Author:
James Rouse
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War was forced upon mankind in his original civil and social condition.
Author:
Elihu Root
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Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
Author:
Theodore Roosevelt
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Only when every one of us and every nation learns the secret of love for all mankind will the world become a great orchestra, following the beat of the Greatest Conductor of all.
Author:
Artur Rodzinski
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I think I did every drug known to mankind, smoked crack, boozed, dropped acid, you name it.
Author:
Kid Rock
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In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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I know that if the peace movement takes its message boldly to the Negro people a powerful force can be secured in pursuit of the greatest goal of all mankind. And the same is true of labor and the great democratic sections of our population.
Author:
Paul Robeson
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But when, in the first setting out, he takes it for granted without proof, that distinctions found in the structure of all languages, have no foundation in nature; this surely is too fastidious a way of treating the common sense of mankind.
Author:
Thomas Reid
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I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.
Author:
Ronald Reagan
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A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality.
Author:
William Reade
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In the evolution of mankind there has always been a certain degree of social coherence.
Author:
Herbert Read
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I have not the slightest doubt that this form of individuation represents a higher stage in the evolution of mankind.
Author:
Herbert Read
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Mankind is considered (by the radical environmentalists) the lowest and the meanest of all species and is blamed for everything.
Author:
Dixie Ray
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The kingdom of God is a theocracy. And as it is the only form of government which will redeem and save mankind, it is necessary that every soul should be rightly and thoroughly instructed in regard to its nature and general characteristics.
Author:
Orson Pratt
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Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon.
Author:
Terry Prachett
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Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.
Author:
Alexander Pope
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I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
Author:
Alexander Pope
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The proper study of Mankind is Man.
Author:
Alexander Pope
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
Author:
Plotinus
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A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants.
Author:
Plato
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The history of mankind is the history of ideas.
Author:
Luigi Pirandello
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Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other.
Author:
Albert Pike
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We consider Christmas as the encounter, the great encounter, the historical encounter, the decisive encounter, between God and mankind. He who has faith knows this truly; let him rejoice.
Author:
Pope Paul VI
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No man is so great as mankind.
Author:
Theodore Parker
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The most wonderful study of mankind is man. Relieving human suffering and diffusing universal knowledge is humanitarian.
Author:
Daniel Palmer
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The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
Author:
Thomas Paine
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Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.
Author:
Thomas Paine
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All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
Author:
Thomas Paine
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Finding that no religion is based on facts and cannot be true, I began to reflect what must be the condition of mankind trained from infancy to believe in error.
Author:
Robert Owen
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Boldness and decision command, often even in evil, the respect and concurrence of mankind.
Author:
Robert Owen
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Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.
Author:
George Orwell
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In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the forces of nature than the ancients ascribed to their gods.
Author:
John Orr
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In prehistoric times, mankind often had only two choices in crisis situations: fight or flee. In modern times, humor offers us a third alternative; fight, flee - or laugh.
Author:
Robert Orben
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Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.
Author:
Madalyn O'Hair
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It has been a privilege to pursue knowledge for its own sake and to see how it might help mankind in more practical ways.
Author:
Paul Nurse
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What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.
Author:
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.
Author:
Friedrich Nietzsche
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We have to acknowledge peace is in danger and mankind still has not realised the priority to be given to world dialogue versus armed contradiction and bloodshed.
Author:
Nursultan Nazarbayev
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In man - in the history of mankind, this has happened many times, and occupation leaders hang on to the land that they're occupying. People fight to liberate their land. But in the end, the people's will is what achieves victory.
Author:
Hassan Nasrallah
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All mankind is now learning that these nuclear weapons can only serve to destroy, never become beneficial.
Author:
Alva Myrdal
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However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing is impossible.
Author:
Lewis Mumford
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How mankind defers from day to day the best it can do, and the most beautiful things it can enjoy, without thinking that every day may be the last one, and that lost time is lost eternity!
Author:
Max Muller
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The god of the Christians, as we have seen, is the god who makes promises only to break them; who sends them pestilence and disease in order to heal them; a god who demoralizes mankind in order to improve it.
Author:
Johann Most
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Anyone who knows how difficult it is to keep a secret among three men - particularly if they are married - knows how absurd is the idea of a worldwide secret conspiracy consciously controlling all mankind by its financial power; in real, clear analysis.
Author:
Oswald Mosley
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They act as if they supposed that to be very sanguine about the general improvement of mankind is a virtue that relieves them from taking trouble about any improvement in particular.
Author:
John Morley
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In dedicating his estate to the honoring of endeavors that benefit mankind, Alfred Nobel expressed a lifelong concern that is even more timely in 1972 than it was in his lifetime.
Author:
Stanford Moore
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Throughout history no one has suffered more than God. He has suffered because his own children fell away from him. Ever since the Fall, God has been working tirelessly for the restoration of mankind. People do not know this brokenhearted aspect of God.
Author:
Sun Moon
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I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
Author:
Michel Montaigne
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One sees a blatant disregard for the precious souls of mankind.
Author:
Thomas Monson
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I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.
Author:
Moliere
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All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
Author:
Moliere
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The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.
Author:
Ludwig Mises
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If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.
Author:
Ludwig Mises
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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.
Author:
Slobodan Milosevic
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If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.
Author:
John Mill
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As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other.
Author:
John Mill
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The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
Author:
John Mill
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May God be with me! May Heaven bless this New Year. May it be a year of fruitfulness, of peace and prosperity; may it be a year of peace and unity for all mankind; may the world be freed of cholera.
Author:
Giacomo Meyerbeer
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The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
Author:
H. Mencken
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Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not.
Author:
Mencius
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There are some persons in this world, who, unable to give better proof of being wise, take a strange delight in showing what they think they have sagaciously read in mankind by uncharitable suspicions of them.
Author:
Herman Melville
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No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind, such as cars that won't start.
Author:
Larry McMurtry
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Families are the Nurseries of all Societies; and the First combinations of mankind.
Author:
Cotton Mather
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The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind.
Author:
George Mason
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Religion is the belief in an ever-living God, that is, in a Divine Mind and Will ruling the Universe and holding moral relations with mankind.
Author:
James Martineau
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I think it's wrong the way they criminalize herb. There are many more uses than just smoking. Beneficial to mankind.
Author:
Ziggy Marley
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Me only have one ambition, y'know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together - black, white, Chinese, everyone - that's all.
Author:
Bob Marley
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You can believe that he was taught to love and respect all mankind - but to fear no man.
Author:
Wellington Mara
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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.
Author:
Ray Manzarek
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The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.
Author:
Og Mandino
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When I joined the Communist movement in 1935 it was based upon the belief that mankind's future was to be found there. Certainly, millions who joined it the world over, like myself, didn't join it for profit.
Author:
Albert Maltz
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The histories of mankind are histories only of the higher classes.
Author:
Thomas Malthus
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Superstitions and belief in magic are perennial in just the same way as religion, and something near to being universal among mankind; and why this is so may be interesting, but in most cases the beliefs themselves are devoid of interesting content, at least to me.
Author:
Bryan Magee
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Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
Author:
Niccolo Machiavelli
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The fact is, every thinker, every philosopher, the moment he is forced to abandon his one-sided intellectual occupation by practical necessity, immediately returns to the general point of view of mankind.
Author:
Ernst Mach
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The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay.
Author:
Martin Luther
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Humanistic values of equality and equal rights for all nations and individuals as crystallized in the principles of the United Nations Charter are mankind's great achievements in the 20th century.
Author:
Tran Luong
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However, we all share the firm belief in the triumph of humanist and progressive values that mankind has achieved during its long history of struggle and creativeness.
Author:
Tran Luong
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The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.
Author:
H. Lovecraft
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Mankind invents things to fight about.
Author:
Mike Love
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The history of mankind is a history of war.
Author:
Mike Love
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Music is the universal language of mankind.
Author:
Henry Longfellow
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Strong, generous, and confident, she has nobly served mankind. Beware how you trifle with your marvellous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin.
Author:
Henry Lodge
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She has great problems of her own to solve, very grim and perilous problems, and a right solution, if we can attain to it, would largely benefit mankind.
Author:
Henry Lodge
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Our ideal is to make her ever stronger and better and finer, because in that way alone, as we believe, can she be of the greatest service to the world's peace and to the welfare of mankind.
Author:
Henry Lodge
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To live in mankind is far more than to live in a name.
Author:
Vachel Lindsay
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Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.
Author:
Georg Lichtenberg
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We hope that this honor you have done us will bring the time of further realization of these benefits closer and will help all mankind to live better and be happier through the atom and isotopes.
Author:
Willard Libby
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What is a hero without love for mankind.
Author:
Doris Lessing
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Mankind deserves sacrifice - but not of mankind.
Author:
Stanislaw Lec
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The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity.
Author:
David Lawrence
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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.
Author:
David Lawrence
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Christianity is usually called a religion. As a religion it has had a wider geographic spread and is more deeply rooted among more peoples than any other religion in the history of mankind.
Author:
Kenneth Latourette
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Happy indeed is the scientist who not only has the pleasures which I have enumerated, but who also wins the recognition of fellow scientists and of the mankind which ultimately benefits from his endeavors.
Author:
Irving Langmuir
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History proves abundantly that pure science, undertaken without regard to applications to human needs, is usually ultimately of direct benefit to mankind.
Author:
Irving Langmuir
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Internationalism is a community theory of society which is founded on economic, spiritual, and biological facts. It maintains that respect for a healthy development of human society and of world civilization requires that mankind be organized internationally.
Author:
Christian Lange
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Propaganda must appeal to mankind's better judgment and to the necessary belief in a better future. For this belief, the valley of the shadow of death is but a war station on the road to the blessed summit.
Author:
Christian Lange
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The simultaneous reactions elicited all over the world by the reading of newspaper dispatches about the same events create, as it were, a common mental pulse beat for the whole of civilized mankind.
Author:
Christian Lange
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Mankind are divided into sects, and individuals think very differently on religious subjects, from the purest motives; and that gracious common Parent, who loves all his children alike, beholds with approbation every one who worships him in sincerity.
Author:
Joseph Lancaster
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Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.
Author:
Alphonse Lamartine
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We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.
Author:
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.
Author:
Joseph Krutch
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If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures.
Author:
Alfred Korzybski
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Art to me is a humanitarian act and I believe that there is a responsibility that art should somehow be able to effect mankind, to make the word a better place.
Author:
Jeff Koons
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Real art is one of the most powerful forces in the rise of mankind, and he who renders it accessible to as many people as possible is a benefactor of humanity.
Author:
Zoltan Kodaly
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Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
Author:
Rudyard Kipling
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I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.
Author:
Martin King, Jr.
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Far more has been accomplished for the welfare and progress of mankind by preventing bad actions than by doing good ones.
Author:
William King
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The law established by the Creator, which has existed from the beginning, extends over the whole globe, is everywhere and at all times binding upon mankind.
Author:
Rufus King
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Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay mad and you'll never be bitten. Dogs don't respect humility and sorrow.
Author:
Jack Kerouac
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
Author:
Jack Kerouac
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Art must unquestionably have a social value; that is, as a potential means of communication it must be addressed, and in comprehensible terms, to the understanding of mankind.
Author:
Rockwell Kent
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We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.
Author:
John Kennedy
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Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.
Author:
John Kennedy
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There is no short and easy road, no magic cure for those ills which have afflicted mankind from the dawn of history.
Author:
Frank Kellogg
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Before the discovery of agriculture mankind was everywhere so divided, the size of each group being determined by the natural fertility of its locality.
Author:
Arthur Keith
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Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'
Author:
Immanuel Kant
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From a scientific perspective there is some indication that a nuclear war could deplete the earth's ozone layer or, less likely, could bring on a new Ice Age - but there is no suggestion that either the created order or mankind would be destroyed in the process.
Author:
Herman Kahn
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The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.
Author:
Franz Kafka
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Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.
Author:
Franz Kafka
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I address myself to the Communists, to those Communists who were prompted to join the Party by the progressive ideas of mankind and socialism, and not by selfish personal interests - let us represent our pure and just ideas by pure and just means.
Author:
Janos Kadar
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To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.
Author:
Samuel Johnson
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In the world of the present, in our time, we feel that suffering, anguish, the torments of body and soul, are greater than ever before in the history of mankind.
Author:
Eyvind Johnson
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I shall endeavour still further to prosecute this inquiry, an inquiry I trust not merely speculative, but of sufficient moment to inspire the pleasing hope of its becoming essentially beneficial to mankind.
Author:
Edward Jenner
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I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.
Author:
Thomas Jefferson
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Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
Author:
Thomas Jefferson
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Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
Author:
Thomas Jefferson
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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
Author:
Thomas Jefferson
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The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.
Author:
Thomas Jefferson
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The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.
Author:
Thomas Jefferson
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The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.
Author:
William James
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Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.
Author:
Robert Ingersoll
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It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
Author:
William Inge
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The more rapidly truth is spread among mankind the better it will be for them. Only let us be sure that it is the truth.
Author:
Thomas Huxley
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The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.
Author:
Thomas Huxley
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The proper study of mankind is books.
Author:
Aldous Huxley
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According to the now almost universally accepted theory, all the races of mankind had a common origin.
Author:
Ellsworth Huntington
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For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end.
Author:
Hubert Humphrey
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Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.
Author:
David Hume
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Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
Author:
Victor Hugo
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Democracy is the common pursuit of mankind, and all countries must earnestly protect the democratic rights of the people.
Author:
Jinato Hu
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I sometimes think God allows Great Britain to be unprincipled for the good of mankind.
Author:
Julia Howe
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I like to watch mankind in its futile attempt to understand the unknown, when they don't even understand that which they know.
Author:
Terrence Howard
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A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong.
Author:
Horace
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By the by, if the English race had done nothing else, yet if they left the world the notion of a gentleman, they would have done a great service to mankind.
Author:
Gerard Hopkins
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If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind.
Author:
Harri Holkeri
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I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.
Author:
Thomas Hobbes
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Mankind has grown strong in eternal struggles and it will only perish through eternal peace.
Author:
Adolf Hitler
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Christendom appears clearly to me to be one of those trifling, insignificant arts, which has never been of any substantial advantage to mankind.
Author:
Edward Hicks
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The vast upheaval of the World War set in motion forces that will either destroy civilization or raise mankind to undreamed of heights of human welfare and prosperity.
Author:
Arthur Henderson
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The forces that are driving mankind toward unity and peace are deep-seated and powerful. They are material and natural, as well as moral and intellectual.
Author:
Arthur Henderson
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A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind.
Author:
Lafcadio Hearn
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It has been wisely observed by the greatest of modern thinkers that mankind has progressed more rapidly in every other respect than in morality.
Author:
Lafcadio Hearn
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To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
Author:
William Hazlitt
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It avoids a self-conscious relationship to the act. We live in the most self-conscious society in the history of mankind. There are good things in that, but there are also terrible things. The worst of it is, that we find it hard to give ourselves to the cultural process.
Author:
Larry Harvey
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Do not commit the error, common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed.
Author:
Jan Hartog
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Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.
Author:
Augustus Hare
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It is a mistake to think that we can control the breeding of mankind in the long run by an appeal to conscience.
Author:
Garrett Hardin
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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.
Author:
Alexander Hamilton
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The end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind.
Author:
Manly Hall
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This devil loves mankind because men are going to always make the choice that will send him into ascendancy. He's been winning the game for a long time.
Author:
Taylor Hackford
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Mankind is getting smarter every day. Actually, it only seems so. At least we are making progress. We're progressing, to be sure, ever more deeply into the forest.
Author:
Franz Grillparzer
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It would be naive to think that the problems plaguing mankind today can be solved with means and methods which were applied or seemed to work in the past.
Author:
Mikhail Gorbachev
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Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.
Author:
Emma Goldman
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Idealists are foolish enough to throw caution to the winds. They have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.
Author:
Emma Goldman
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Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind.
Author:
William Godwin
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It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for better things that it moves at all.
Author:
George Gissing
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History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
Author:
Edward Gibbon
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History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
Author:
Edward Gibbon
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The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.
Author:
Henry George
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Mankind at its most desperate is often at its best.
Author:
Bob Geldof
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My country is the world; my countrymen are mankind.
Author:
William Garrison
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Our country is the world - our countrymen are all mankind.
Author:
William Garrison
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Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.
Author:
Mohandas Gandhi
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Be it whim or emergency, the modern laboratory is equally at the service of romance, equally ready to gratify mankind with a torpedo or a toy.
Author:
Richard Gallienne
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A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.
Author:
John Galbraith
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Chemistry itself knows altogether too well that - given the real fear that the scarcity of global resources and energy might threaten the unity of mankind - chemistry is in a position to make a contribution towards securing a true peace on earth.
Author:
Kenichi Fukui
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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.
Author:
Kenichi Fukui
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The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.
Author:
Erich Fromm
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The man of science, like the man of letters, is too apt to view mankind only in the abstract, selecting in his consideration only a single side of our complex and many-sided being.
Author:
James Frazer
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In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.
Author:
Benjamin Franklin
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I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.
Author:
Benjamin Franklin
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When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?
Author:
Benjamin Franklin
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All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.
Author:
Benjamin Franklin
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Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.
Author:
Robert Frank
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Liberty is not the unique right of Americans or even Westerners, but is mankind's right.
Author:
Virginia Foxx
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You may count on Mexico's support, since your commitment to the noblest causes of mankind and your vast experience are and will be invaluable in enabling us, together, to achieve a better world.
Author:
Vicente Fox
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Of all the passions of mankind, the love of novelty most rules the mind. In search of this, from realm to realm we roam. Our fleets come loaded with every folly home.
Author:
Shelby Foote
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The history of mankind is confined within a limited period, and from every quarter brings an intimation that human affairs have had a beginning.
Author:
Adam Ferguson
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I certainly feel that the time is not far distant when a knowledge of the principles of diet will be an essential part of one's education. Then mankind will eat to live, be able to do better mental and physical work and disease will be less frequent.
Author:
Fannie Farmer
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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.
Author:
Desiderius Erasmus
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By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.
Author:
Desiderius Erasmus
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All mankind love a lover.
Author:
Ralph Emerson
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It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead.
Author:
Larry Ellison
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The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
Author:
Pliny Elder
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We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.
Author:
Albert Einstein
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Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
Author:
Albert Einstein
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I hesitate to predict whether this theory is true. But if the general opinion of Mankind is optimistic then we're in for a period of extreme popularity for science fiction.
Author:
David Eddings
