James Boswell Quotes
I think there is a blossom about me of something more distinguished than the generality of mankind.James Boswell
Quotes to Explore
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Mankind can be very magnanimous, given the chance.
Karin Fossum -
The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.
H. P. Lovecraft -
All mankind love a lover.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?
Abigail Adams -
Advocating the expansion of the powers of the state is treason to mankind, goddamnit!
P. J. O'Rourke -
I do not believe in a God who maliciously or arbitrarily interferes in the personal affairs of mankind. My religion consists of an humble admiration for the vast power which manifests itself in that small part of the universe which our poor, weak minds can grasp!
Albert Einstein
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A new type of thinking is essential if mankind is to survive and move toward higher levels.
Albert Einstein -
Only freedom from prejudice and tireless zeal avail for the most holy of the endeavours of mankind, the practice of the true art of healing.
Samuel Hahnemann -
Mankind may be divided into playgoers and not playgoers.
Vernon Lee -
To the mass of mankind religion of some kind is a necessity.
Alfred Russel Wallace -
It's difficult to understand why people don't realize that pets are gifts to mankind.
Linda Blair -
Power is what spoils people. Yes, it seems to me that the seeking after power is the great danger and the great corruptor of mankind.
Baldur von Schirach
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In the long run, we must focus on what is the better good for mankind.
Dennis Hastert -
Iraq will triumph and with Iraq will our Arab nation and mankind also triumph.
Saddam Hussein -
Though well to decorate the blossom, it is far better to prepare for the harvest.
Emma Willard -
(He) mourned mankind, and the blindness of men, who thought that the Kosmos had rules and limits that would shelter them from their own freedom. There were no shelters. There were no final purposes. Futility, and freedom, were Absolute
Bruce Sterling -
The mass of mankind are evidently slavish in their tastes, preferring a life suitable to beasts.
Aristotle -
Meanness is more ingrained in man's nature than Prodigality; the mass of mankind are avaricious rather than open-handed.
Aristotle
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Again, the male is by nature superior, and the female inferior; and the one rules, and the other is ruled; this principle, of necessity, extends to all mankind.
Aristotle -
Mankind cannot, I submit, save itself from destruction through mere cleverness of scientific technology selfishly applied, nor through wishful thinking. But through a deep sense of brotherhood of all life, and a willingness and eagerness on the part of each and every person to work constructively for the preservation and enhancement of life, mankind may yet be preserved and go forward into the next millennium with confidence, competence and compassion.
Hom Jay Dinshah -
The most-honored ancestors of your matriarch besmirched the season of the orange blossom.
Nick Bakay -
All that Shakespeare says of the king, yonder slip of a boy that reads in the corner feels to be true of himself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Reckless action is worse than wise restraint.
Danielle Trussoni -
I think there is a blossom about me of something more distinguished than the generality of mankind.
James Boswell