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Last updated on December 12, 2024.
Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value.
But in all despotic governments, though a particular prince may favour arts and letter, there is a natural degeneracy of mankind.
I happen to think that American politics is one of the noblest arts of mankind; and I cannot do anything else but write about it.
It is not the strong who are dangerous to the world and to themselves. It is the weak and the inadequate who threaten - and sometimes destroy - mankind's peace and prosperity.
Mankind which began in a cave and behind a windbreak will end in the disease-soaked ruins of a slum.
Law is nothing else but the best reason of wise men applied for ages to the transactions and business of mankind.
The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.
Look, see, learn, become a citizen of Mankind, not just Hannibal, Missouri. That is the message of [Mark] Twain.
I'm sorry, Mankind can't get to the phone right now, cause he's got The Rock's foot in his mouth!
Art is a universal language and through it each nation makes its own unique contribution to the culture of mankind.
No one knows just how the idea of a soul or the supernatural started... It probably had its origin in the general laziness of mankind.
O Poverty, thy thousand ills combined Sink not so deep into the generous mind, As the contempt and laughter of mankind.
I am certainly convinced that it is one of the greatest impulses of mankind to arrive at something higher than a natural state.
A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions.
For there is in mankind an unfortunate propensity to make themselves, their views and their works, the measure of excellence in every thing whatsoever
Mankind owns four things that are no good at sea: rudder, anchor, oars and the fear of going down.
God invented mankind because he loved silly stories. Ralph Steadman I like being absurd.
Some of mankind's most terrible misdeeds have been committed under the spell of certain magic words or phrases.
One of the greatest threats to mankind today is that the world may be choked by an explosively pervading but well camouflaged bureaucracy.
There is no short and easy road, no magic cure for those ills which have afflicted mankind from the dawn of history.
Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
Lay then the axe to the root, and teach governments humanity. It is their sanguinary punishments which corrupt mankind.
The most desirable state of mankind is that which maintains general security with the smallest encroachment upon individual independence.
All that mankind has ever learned is nothing more than a single grain of sand on a beach that reaches to infinity.
The virtue of pride, which was once the beauty of mankind, has given place to that fount of ugliness, Christian humility.
Whoever in prayer can say, 'Our Father', acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole race of mankind.
If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind.
Charity is a supreme virtue, and the great channel through which the mercy of God is passed onto mankind.
In the Age of Aquarius, the depression and stress on mankind will tear up people who do not have the technical knowledge of self.
All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.
Mankind are apt to be strongly prejudiced in favor of whatever is countenanced by antiquity, enforced by authority, and recommended by custom.
In absolute terms, I am the most legally persecuted man of all times, in the whole history of mankind, worldwide.
Mankind's self-alienation has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order.
Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
Mankind has many things that it never knew before. What I can tell you is that human moral values are no longer good.
Free enterprise is the sure and so far the only known way of constantly improving the well-being of mankind.
It can scarcely be denied that the fundamental phenomena which first led mankind into chemical inquiries are those of combustion.
Life is made too easy. Mankind's moral fibre is giving way under the softening influence of luxury.
If mankind had always been logical and wise, history would not be a long chronicle of folly and crime.
He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.
I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.
It has been my experience that people who are at cross-purposes with nature are cynical about mankind and ill at ease with themselves.
They must know but little of mankind who can imagine that, after they have been once seduced by luxury, they can ever renounce it.
We must pray without tiring, for the salvation of mankind does not depend upon material success . . . but on Jesus alone.
It is the habit of mankind to entrust to careless hope what they long for, and to use sovereign reason to thrust aside what they do not desire
Love is the greatest corrupter ever known and has been the numbers one downfall of mankind since the first creation.
The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind ahead even more than teamwork.
The happiness of the domestic fireside is the first boon of Heaven; and it is well it is so, since it is that which is the lot of the mass of mankind.
The gift which I am sending you is called a dog, and is in fact the most precious and valuable possession of mankind
Perhaps the best hope for the future of mankind is that ways will be found of increasing the scope and intensity of sympathy.
Climate change now represents so urgent a threat to mankind that the only way to deal with it is by suspending democracy.
Mankind divides itself into two classes,--benefactors and malefactors. The second class is vast; the first a handful.
Expose not the secret failings of mankind, otherwise you must verily bring scandal upon them and distrust upon yourself.
When mankind was in its infancy, steeped in uncertainty, ignorance, and error, was it possible to foresee what system it would adopt for preservation.
The vast majority of mankind never gives a thought of gratitude towards God for all His care and blessings.
We are not to expect perfection in this world; but mankind, in modern times, have apparently made some progress in the science of government.
It is not at all incredible, that a book which has been so long in the possession of mankind should contain many truths as yet undiscovered.
The falsification of history has done more to impede human development than any one thing known to mankind.
Mankind became hysterical in the Middle Ages because it poorly repressed the sexual impressions of its Greek boyhood.
The most wonderful study of mankind is man. Relieving human suffering and diffusing universal knowledge is humanitarian.
