Mankind Quotes
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A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
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You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
William Jennings Bryan
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Of mankind in general, the parts are greater than the whole.
Aristotle
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You know how cunningly mankind is planned: We have one loving and one hating hand. The loving's made to hold each other like, While with the hating other hand we strike.
Robert Frost
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The Mandelbrot set is the most complex mathematical object known to mankind.
Benoit Mandelbrot
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The most brazen humiliation ever inflicted upon God and mankind, justifying all the curses of the synagogue, is to be found in the 'sive' of the formula Deus sive Natura.
Carl Schmitt
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Historical truth is that, and that alone, which reveals the forces that go to mould the social life of mankind.
Ahad Ha'am
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Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.
Umberto Eco
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The Auschwitz praxis was based on a new principle: for one portion of mankind, existence itself is a crime, punishable by humiliation, torture, and death. And the new world produced by this praxis included two kinds of inhabitants, those who were given the "punishment" and those who administered it.
Emil Fackenheim
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You can believe that he was taught to love and respect all mankind - but to fear no man.
Wellington Mara
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Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.
John Tillotson
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War is something of man's own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer there.
A. A. Milne
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Riches are of little avail in many of the calamities to which mankind are liable.
Miguel de Cervantes
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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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You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns; you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
William Jennings Bryan
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When men are engaged in war and conquest, the tools of science become as dangerous as a razor in the hands of a child of three. We must not condemn man because his inventiveness and patient conquest of the forces of nature are being exploited for false and destructive purposes. Rather, we should remember that the fate of mankind hinges entirely upon man’s moral development.
Albert Einstein
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All art is propaganda. ... The only difference is the kind of propaganda. Since art is essential for human life, it can't just belong to the few. Art is the universal language, and it belongs to all mankind. All painters have been propagandists or else they have not been painters. ... Every artist who has been worth anything in art has been such a propagandist. ... Every strong artist has been a propagandist. I want to be a propagandist and I want to be nothing else. ... I want to use my art as a weapon.
Diego Rivera
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Animals were given freedom. Mankind took it away.
Anthony Douglas Williams
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Iraq will triumph and with Iraq will our Arab nation and mankind also triumph.
Saddam Hussein
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If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?
Abigail Adams
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The freedom of Mankind does not lie in the fact that can do what we want, but that we do not have to do that which we do not want.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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So perverse is mankind that every nationality prefers to be misgoverned by its own people than to be well ruled by another.
Charles James
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Mankind must cease harming the harmless.
Anthony Douglas Williams
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If you ever go behind the glass and look at the focus groups that are deciding what you're gonna watch, it's scary. This cross-section of people they just happen to bring in to decide the fate of mankind on television is really scary.
Adrian Pasdar Band from TV