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Last updated on December 12, 2024.
But I fear that I also underestimate the stupidity of the rest of mankind. Are we absolutely sure that we ought to win this war?
There is no doubt in my mind that this is the greatest problem confronting mankind at this time and that it has reached the level of a state of emergency.
That experience is the parent of wisdom is an adage the truth of which is recognized by the wisest as well as the simplest of mankind.
Mankind invented a system to cope with the fact that we are so intrinsically lousy at manipulating numbers. It's called the graph.
It is certain that the easy and obvious philosophy will always, with the generality of mankind, have preference above the accurate.
Fight on land and sea All men want to be free If they don't never mind we'll abolish all mankind
Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.
There is no history of mankind, there is only an indefinite number of histories of all kinds of aspects of human life.
All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.
The truly and deliberately evil men are a very small minority; it is the appeaser who unleashes them on mankind.
By paying our other debts, we are equal with all mankind; but in refusing to pay a debt of revenge, we are superior.
Music, to me, is mankind's greatest possible achievement because look at all the good it does.
A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants.
Today we are confronted with reality on the vastest scale mankind has known and this puts a greater responsibility on the photographer.
Beauty is one in the universe, and, whatever form it assumes, it always arouses a religious feeling in the hearts of mankind.
What forests of laurel we bring, and the tears of mankind, to those who stood firm against the opinion of their contemporaries!
The well-being of mankind, its peace and security, are unattainable unless and until its unity is firmly established.
You can go to the end of time, the last World Cup in the history of mankind, and the All-Blacks will be favourites for it.
The atomic bomb embodies the results of a combination genius and patience as remarkable as any in the history of mankind.
If state, party and social policy will not be based on morality, then mankind has no future to speak of.
The whole of mankind's progress has had to be achieved against the resistance and opposition of the state and its power of coercion.
Mankind's greatest error, the biggest deception of the past thousand years is this: to confuse poverty with stupidity.
So natural to mankind is intolerance ... that religious freedom has hardly anywhere been practically realized.
Is it not strange that mankind should so willingly battle for religion and so unwillingly live according to its precepts?
All my work, all my efforts, all my prayers and tears are for humanity, and the spread of peace and love among mankind.
Capitalism is the greatest poverty-fighting machine in the history of mankind, and I'm proud of the role I've played in it.
Idleness is a great enemy to mankind. There is no friend like energy, for, if you cultivate that, it will never fail.
There is no distrust of men and mankind in me. They will answer before God, so why should I worry?
For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense.
I am often surprised by the cleverness, and now and again by the stupidity, of my dog; and I have similar experiences with mankind.
The image of the frontier is probably one of the oldest images of mankind, and it is not surprising that we should find it hard to get rid of.
How unfortunate for mankind that the Lord is reported by Holy Writ as having said 'Vengeance is mine!'
All mankind's unhappiness derives from one thing: his inability to know how to remain in repose in one room.
According to the now almost universally accepted theory, all the races of mankind had a common origin.
Democracy is the common pursuit of mankind, and all countries must earnestly protect the democratic rights of the people.
Bethink you of the blessedness. Every wife is like the Mother of God and has the hope of bearing a saviour of mankind.
Shall I ask the brave soldier who fights by my side In the cause of mankind, if our creeds agree?
Bankruptcies of governments have, on the whole, done less harm to mankind than their ability to raise loans.
Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
Imbodied spirits constitute the mankind. It is not restricted to the earth only but instead it inhabits all the worlds in space.
I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
The sentiment of justice is so natural, and so universally acquired by all mankind, that it seems to be independent of all law, all party, all religion.
What generally passes for 'thought' among the majority of mankind is the time one takes out to rearrange one's prejudices.
That incessant envy wherewith the common rate of mankind pursues all superior natures to their own.
I do not believe making money in order to consume goods is mankind's sole purpose on this planet.
I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.
All that makes a lunatic are the very ordinary ideas of mankind shut up inside a man's head.
A state arises,as I conceive,out of the needs of mankind;no one is self-sufficing,but all of us have many wants
Above all we should not forget, that government is an evil, an usurpation upon the private judgment and individual conscience of mankind.
Almost certainly, however, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind.
It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it.
Not nature, but the "genius of mankind," has knotted the hangman's noose with which it can execute itself at any moment.
I work very much on the principle that anything created by mankind has mischief and error hardwired into its inception.
Life is writing. The sole purpose of mankind is to engrave the thoughts of divinity onto the tablets of nature.
The dance lives in all mankind as a necessary motor-rhythmic expression of excess energy and the joy of living.
We never, ever in the history of mankind have had access to so much information so quickly and so easily.
Do not commit the error, common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed.
If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures.
All mankind is now learning that these nuclear weapons can only serve to destroy, never become beneficial.
A man's word and his intestinal fortitude are two of the most honorable virtues known to mankind.
