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• Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.

  Thomas Paine

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• All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

  Thomas Carlyle

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• Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

  Theodore Roosevelt

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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.

  Theodore H. White

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• For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

  Joyce Cary

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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.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

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• Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.

  Viktor Emil Frankl

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• All mankind love a lover.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

  Rudyard Kipling

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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.

  Victor Hugo

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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.

  John Stuart Mill

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• Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.

  John Stuart Mill

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• We pray that henceforth not only Japan but all mankind may know the blessings of harmony and progress.

  Shigeru Yoshida

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• If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

  Jimmy Carter

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• Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.

  Robert G. Ingersoll

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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.

  Shelby Foote

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• To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

  James Madison Jr

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• Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpation.

  James Madison Jr

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• It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.

  James Earl Jones

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• To live in mankind is far more than to live in a name.

  Vachel Lindsay

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