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Tag Name "Mankind" (1874)

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Mankind is at its best when it is most free. This will be clear if we grasp the principle of liberty. We must recall that the basic principle is freedom of choice, which saying many have on their lips but few in their minds.
Dante Alighieri
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Mankind, why do ye set your hearts on things That, of necessity, may not be shared?
Dante Alighieri
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Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places, that history informs us of nothing new or strange in this particular. Its chief use is only to discover the constant and universal principles of human nature.
David Hume
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Mankind spends much more on training pilots of aircraft than it does to train the nuclear reactor operators.
Abdus Salam
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Mankind does not drink alcohol because there are breweries, distilleries, and vineyards men brew beer, distill spirits, and grow grapes because of the demand for alcoholic drinks.
Ludwig von Mises
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Mankind is considered (by the radical environmentalists) the lowest and the meanest of all species and is blamed for everything.
Dixie Lee Ray
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Mankind accepts good fortune as his due, but when bad occurs, he thinks it was aimed at him, done to him, a hex, a curse, a punishment by his deity for some transgression, as though his god were a petty storekeeper, counting up the day's receipts.
Sheri S. Tepper
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Mankind is becoming a single unit, and that for a unit to fight against itself is suicide.
Havelock Ellis
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Mankind will in time discover that unbridled majorities are as tyrannical and cruel as unlimited despots.
John Adams
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Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.
Blaise Pascal
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Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else.
Bertrand Russell
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Mankind may be divided into playgoers and not playgoers.
Vernon Lee
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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.
Victor Hugo
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Mankind are tolerant of the praises of others as long as each hearer thinks that he can do as well or nearly as well himself, but, when the speaker rises above him, jealousy is aroused and he begins to be incredulous.
Thucydides
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Mankind's suffering belongs to all men.
Bernard Kouchner
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Mankind led on by gods err all too easily.
Euripides
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Mankind ought to be taught that religions are but the varied expressions of THE RELIGION, which is Oneness, so that each may choose the path that suits him best.
Swami Vivekananda
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Mankind has to get out of violence only through non-violence.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Mankind ought to end its existence of its own will.
Peter Wessel Zapffe
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Mankind has had ten-thousand years of experience at fighting and if we must fight, we have no excuse for not fighting well.
T. E. Lawrence
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Mankind adores its betrayers, and murders its saviors.
Taylor Caldwell
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Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites.
John Dewey
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Mankind is ever the same, and nothing lost out of nature, though everything is altered.
John Dryden
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Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
Thomas Jefferson
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