Mankind Quotes

Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

Bertrand Russell

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The law, which restrains a man from doing mischief to his fellow citizens, though it diminishes the natural, increases the civil liberty of mankind.

William Blackstone

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Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.

Niccolo Machiavelli

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I cannot but think that it would be a great step if mankind could familiarise themselves with the idea that they are spirits incorporated for a time in the flesh re spirits incorporated for a time in the flesh.

Catherine Crowe

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All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.

Benjamin Franklin

ThreeDividedMankindMoveThose

I do not regret the part I have taken in a cause so just and interesting to mankind.

Samuel Adams

RegretInterestingMankindJustPart

It has been wisely observed by the greatest of modern thinkers that mankind has progressed more rapidly in every other respect than in morality.

Lafcadio Hearn

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Our true nationality is mankind.

H. G. Wells

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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.

Abdus Salam

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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

Edmund Burke

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How could you fear a dearth? Have not mankind tho' slain by millions, millions left behind?

Joel Barlow

FearYouMankindLeftBehindHow

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

StandLadyOutMankindHostSupreme

The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.

John Stuart Mill

PowerWorldMediocrityMankindAmong

The public has been sold a bill of goods about the free market being a panacea for mankind.

Tom Scholz

FreeMankindMarketBeenFree Market

The history of mankind is the history of ideas.

Luigi Pirandello

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Words are most malignant, the most treacherous possession of mankind. They are saturated with the sorrows of all time.

Louis Sullivan

TimeWordsMankindMostSaturated

By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.

Desiderius Erasmus

CarpenterMankindOnlyMadeRemade

Mankind at its most desperate is often at its best.

Bob Geldof

BestMankindDesperateMostOften

It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.

William Inge

WisdomLittleOwnMankindHow

In the mass of mankind, I fear, there is too great a majority of fools and knaves; who, singly from their number, must to a certain degree be respected, though they are by no means respectable.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

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I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.

Thomas Jefferson

WarViewMankindGreatestAbhor

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.

Nursultan Nazarbayev

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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.

Kenneth Scott Latourette

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Music is the universal language of mankind.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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