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If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures.
Words are most malignant, the most treacherous possession of mankind. They are saturated with the sorrows of all time.
Bethink you of the blessedness. Every wife is like the Mother of God and has the hope of bearing a saviour of mankind.
The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.
Nothing is more important to God than prayer in dealing with mankind. But it is likewise all-important to man to pray.
The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.
Mankind have their local attachments. They have a particular regard for the spot, in which they were born and nurtured.
Mankind had the agricultural revolution, the industrial revolution, and now this third one, the information revolution.
I work very much on the principle that anything created by mankind has mischief and error hardwired into its inception.
Ah, in every age there is always some new wonder to astound mankind until they grow accustomed to it and lose interest.
The most wonderful study of mankind is man. Relieving human suffering and diffusing universal knowledge is humanitarian.
Few consider how much we are indebted to government, because few can represent how wretched mankind would be without it.
Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else.
The more rapidly truth is spread among mankind the better it will be for them. Only let us be sure that it is the truth.
Not nature, but the "genius of mankind," has knotted the hangman's noose with which it can execute itself at any moment.
Man talks about everything, and he talks about everything as though the understanding of everything were all inside him.
All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.
To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind.
Democracy is the common pursuit of mankind, and all countries must earnestly protect the democratic rights of the people.
There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.
Happy those Who in the after-days shall live, when Time Hath spoken, and the multitude of years Taught wisdom to mankind!
The Savior of all mankind left the ninety and nine to find the one lost. That one who was lost need not have become lost.
I thought that all of the sacrifices and blessings of the whole history of mankind have devolved upon me. Thank you, God.
It is not by delusion, however exalted, that mankind can prosper, but only by unswerving courage in the pursuit of truth.
Far more has been accomplished for the welfare and progress of mankind by preventing bad actions than by doing good ones.
It has been a privilege to pursue knowledge for its own sake and to see how it might help mankind in more practical ways.
I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.
I always seek the good that is in people and leave the bad to Him who made mankind and knows how to round off the corners.
The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
So perverse is mankind that every nationality prefers to be misgoverned by its own people than to be well ruled by another
To mankind in general Macbeth and Lady Macbeth stand out as the supreme type of all that a host and hostess should not be.
If Islam's sole interest is the welfare of mankind, then Islam is the strongest advocate of human rights anywhere on Earth.
What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.
But the trek that starts with the feet always rises in time to the head. There had never been any of mankind's that didn't.
Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.
I think that the worst thing is realizing that mankind - that - that human beings can be so horrible to other human beings.
The great community of mankind had been subdivided into ten thousand communities, each organized for the ruin of the other.
The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.
Let our weakness be what it will, mankind will still be weaker; and whilst there is a world, 'tis woman that will govern it.
The generation that has the greatest access to knowledge in the history of mankind is the one that cares the least about it.
I believe in God--in spite of God! I believe in Mankind--in spite of Mankind! I believe in the Future--in spite of the Past!
Pain and Oblivion make mankind afraid to die; but all creatures are afraid of the one, none but mankind afraid of the other.
I hold that while a man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.
Angels, demons, spirits, wizards, gods and witches have peppered folk religions since mankind first started telling stories.
Whatever science and philosophy may do for mankind, the world can never outgrow its need of the simplicity that is in Christ.
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 are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser.
I like to watch mankind in its futile attempt to understand the unknown, when they don't even understand that which they know
Poetry is the universal possession of mankind, revealing itself everywhere, and at all times, in hundreds and hundreds of men.