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• I don’t think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.

  Bob Dylan

  Topics in Future, Past

  Tags in Illusion, Manipulate, Mankind, Mind

• Men are only as loyal as their options.

  Bill Maher

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Opinions, Mankind, Loyal, Men And Women, Men

• There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.

  Bertrand Russell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ethical, Philosophical, Contemptible, Mankind

• The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.

  Bertrand Russell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Redeem, Mankind, Cooperation

• It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.

  Bertrand Russell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Mankind, Men And Women

• Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people’s happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.

  Bertrand Russell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Elegant, Happiness, Hate, Mankind

• 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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  Tags in Boredom, Moralist, Half, Mankind

• When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?

  Benjamin Franklin

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Arbitration, Agree, Will, Mankind

• Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.

  Arthur Ashe

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Manners, Appearance, Mankind, Clothes

• In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Topics in Nature

  Tags in Political, Glutton, Gluttony, Mankind

• 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.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Values, Miseries, Mankind

• I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man’s self-respect is a sin.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

  Topics in Self Respect

  Tags in Sin, Right, Mankind, Criticism

• 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

• We cannot learn men from books.

  Benjamin Disraeli

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  Tags in Learning, Mankind, Book

• Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Readiness, Mankind

• Comforts and syphilis are the greatest enemies of mankind.

  Alexis Carrel

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  Tags in Syphilis, Greatest, Enemies, Mankind, Comfort

• So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

  Alexander Pope

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Wit, Mankind

• 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

• Everything will be all right – you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction and see it as a drawing they made themselves.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Abstraction, Thinking, Mankind

• 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.

  Alexander Pope

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Division, Unhappy, Spirit, Hoping, Madness, Mankind