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• Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.

  Alexander Pope

  Topics in God, Religion

  Tags in Study, Man, Mankind

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

  Benjamin Franklin

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Class, Political, Divided, Move, Mankind, Inaction

• 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.

  John Stuart Mill

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Mankind, Freedom, Philosophy

• 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.

  Terry Prachett

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Mankind, Humour

• Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will – his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Environment, Life, Truth

  Tags in Responsibility, Problems, Mankind

• 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 Dormer

  Topics in Fear, Respect

  Tags in Mankind

• 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.’

  Immanuel Kant

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Mankind, Evil, Praise
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  The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain.

  Khalil Gibran

  Topics in Achievement

  Tags in Mankind, Attain

• Mankind at its most desperate is often at its best.

  Bob Geldof

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Mankind, Desperate

• 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.

  Paul Robeson

  Topics in Goal

  Tags in Mankind, Powerful, Movement, Peace

• It has been a privilege to pursue knowledge for its own sake and to see how it might help mankind in more practical ways.

  Paul Nurse

  Topics in Knowledge

  Tags in Mankind

• 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.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Topics in Service

  Tags in Mankind

• 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.

  Tran Duc Luong

  Topics in Belief, History

  Tags in Mankind

• 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.

  Tran Duc Luong

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Humanistic, Mankind

• 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.

  Sophocles

  Topics in Money

  Tags in Mankind

• Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.

  George Washington

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Mankind, Government

• My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.

  George Washington

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Mankind, Plague

• 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.

  Sydney Smith

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Mankind

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

  Tom Scholz

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Mankind, Public

• Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.

  George Orwell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Salvage, Mankind, Civilization