William Macneile Dixon Quotes

There is more than a morsel of truth in the saying, "He who hates vice hates mankind."

William Macneile Dixon

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• Mankind can be very magnanimous, given the chance.

  

  Karin Fossum
  • Chance
  • Mankind
  • Given

• The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • World
  • Mankind
  • Joke

• In general, comedians are attracted to vice.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • General
  • Vice
  • Comedians

• A new type of thinking is essential if mankind is to survive and move toward higher levels.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Thinking
  • Mankind
  • Levels

• As far as I'm concerned I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Virtue
  • Concerned
  • Prefer

• 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
  • People
  • Great
  • Power

• In the long run, we must focus on what is the better good for mankind.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • Good
  • Long
  • Focus

• I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't met me yet.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Ridiculous
  • Hates
  • Psychiatrist

• Iraq will triumph and with Iraq will our Arab nation and mankind also triumph.

  

  Saddam Hussein
  • Mankind
  • Iraq
  • Triumph

• I have this self-conscious inclination to just say "anyone who hates it, that's cool that's fine!"

  

  Philip Morrison
  • Hates
  • Inclination
  • Self-Conscious

• Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Child
  • Laugh
  • Hates

• The male has more teeth than the female in mankind, and sheep and goats, and swine. This has not been observed in other animals. Those persons which have the greatest number of teeth are the longest lived; those which have them widely separated, smaller, and more scattered, are generally more short lived.

  

  Aristotle
  • Animals
  • Mankind
  • Lived

• Every virtue is a mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice.

  

  Aristotle
  • Virtue
  • Extremes
  • Vice

• Both Self-restraint and Unrestraint are a matter of extremes as compared with the character of the mass of mankind; the restrained man shows more and the unrestrained man less steadfastness than most men are capable of.

  

  Aristotle
  • Character
  • Mankind
  • Mass

• 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
  • Nature
  • Rules
  • Mankind

• Through artists mankind becomes an individual, in that they unite the past and the future in the present. They are the higher organ of the soul, where the life spirits of entire external mankind meet and in which inner mankind first acts.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Past
  • Present
  • Mankind

• Mankind led on by gods err all too easily.

  

  Euripides
  • Mankind
  • Gods
  • Led

• Mankind . . . possesses two supreme blessings. First of these is the goddess Demeter, or Earth whichever name you choose to call her by. It was she who gave to man his nourishment of grain. But after her there came the son of Semele, who matched her present by inventing liquid wine as his gift to man. For filled with that good gift, suffering mankind forgets its grief; from it comes sleep; with it oblivion of the troubles of the day. There is no other medicine for misery.

  

  Euripides
  • Man
  • Choose
  • Mankind

• The most important part of education is right training in the nursery. The soul of the child in his play should be trained to that sort of excellence in which, when he grows to manhood, he will have to be perfected.

  

  Plato
  • Education
  • Manhood
  • Nursery

• There are three sorts of pleasures which are advantageous, and three which are injurious. Finding pleasure in the discriminating study of ceremonies and music, finding pleasure in discussing the good points in the conduct of others, and finding pleasure in having many wise friends, these are advantageous. But finding pleasure in profligate enjoyments, finding pleasure in idle gadding about, and finding pleasure in feasting, these are injurious.

  

  Confucius
  • Friends
  • Study
  • Advantageous

• I love composing and writing music and dancing and performing and conceptualizing creatively for visual mediums. I love to create.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Music
  • Dancing
  • Performing

• I have always encouraged my restaurant operators and team members to give back to the local community.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • Team
  • Community
  • Restaurant

• There is more than a morsel of truth in the saying, "He who hates vice hates mankind."

  

  William Macneile Dixon
  • Mankind
  • Vice
  • Hates