“ What, man, defy the devil? Consider, he's an enemy to mankind. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 1.7K
“ The history of mankind is confined within a limited period, and from every quarter brings an intimation that human affairs have had a beginning. ”
- Adam Ferguson- Copy
- 772
“ Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
- 2.8K
“ A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well-being of mankind. ”
- Henry Ward Beecher- Copy
- 1.8K
“ Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man. ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
- 1.7K
“ Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it. ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
- 1.6K
“ Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn. ”
- Joseph Addison- Copy
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“ The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind — not the fiend or the sadist. ”
- Erich Fromm- Copy
- 2K
“ A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind. ”
- Isaac Bashevis Singer- Copy
- 711
“ 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. ”
- Robert Louis Stevenson- Copy
- 2.1K
“ The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind forward. ”
- Igor Sikorsky- Copy
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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. ”
- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne- Copy
- 2K
“ History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind. ”
- Edward Gibbon- Copy
- 2.1K
“ Work is the grand cure for all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind,honest work, which you intend getting done. ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
- 2.3K
“ Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind. ”
- John Stuart Mill- Copy
- 1.8K
“ The reign of Antoninus is marked by the rare advantage of furnishing very few materials for history, which is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, and misfortunes of mankind. ”
- Edward Gibbon- Copy
- 1.1K
“ In short, I conceive that a great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by the false estimates they have made of the value of things, and by their giving too much for their whistles. ”
- Benjamin Franklin- Copy
- 3.5K
“ When we really begin to live in the world, then we understand what is meant by brotherhood or mankind, and not before. ”
- Swami Vivekananda- Copy
- 2K
“ 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. ”
- Mikhail Gorbachev- Copy
- 295
“ The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind. ”
- Joseph Conrad- Copy
- 695
“ The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments. The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster. ”
- Ludwig von Mises- Copy
- 1.9K
“ Families are the Nurseries of all Societies; and the First combinations of mankind. ”
- Cotton Mather- Copy
- 2.4K
“ Anger wishes that all mankind had only one neck; love, that it had only one heart; grief, two tear-glands; and pride, two bent knees. ”
- Jean Paul Richter- Copy
- 2.8K
“ All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books. ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
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