Mankind Quotes
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Mankind are a herd of knaves and fools. It is necessary to join the crowd, or get out of their way, in order not to be trampled to death by them.
William Hazlitt -
Animals were given freedom. Mankind took it away.
Anthony Douglas Williams
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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 -
It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead.
Larry Ellison -
A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
Isaac Bashevis Singer -
Not until the creation and maintenance of decent conditions of life for all men are recognized and accepted as a common obligation of all men and all countries — not until then shall we, with a certain degree of justification, be able to speak of mankind as civilized.
Albert Einstein -
Our cause is noble; it is the cause of mankind!
George Washington -
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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All mankind love a lover.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
You can believe that he was taught to love and respect all mankind - but to fear no man.
Wellington Mara -
The Mandelbrot set is the most complex mathematical object known to mankind.
Benoit Mandelbrot -
If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?
Abigail Adams -
Mankind deserves sacrifice - but not of mankind.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec -
We have ourselves begun to put our house in order by banning some experiments that may contain a risk for mankind. We would like to see society take a similar attitude, abandoning selfish practices that are dangerous for society itself.
Renato Dulbecco
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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 -
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 -
Riches are of little avail in many of the calamities to which mankind are liable.
Miguel de Cervantes -
All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
Moliere -
Our true nationality is mankind.
H. G. Wells -
After there is great trouble among mankind, a greater one is prepared. The great mover of the universe will renew time, rain, blood, thirst, famine, steel weapons and disease. In the heavens, a fire seen
Nostradamus
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Mankind has grown strong in eternal struggles and it will only perish through eternal peace.
Adolf Hitler -
Nor need it cause surprise that things disagreeable to the good man should seem pleasant to some men; for mankind is liable to many corruptions and diseases, and the things in question are not really pleasant, but only pleasant to these particular persons, who are in a condition to think them so.
Aristotle -
Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.
John Tillotson -
Religion is as necessary to reason as reason is to religion. The one cannot exist without the other. A reasoning being would lose his reason, in attempting to account for the great phenomena of nature, had he not a Supreme Being to refer to; and well has it been said, that if there had been no God, mankind would have been obliged to imagine one.
George Washington