"The proper study of mankind is woman."

Mankind, Study, Woman

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"If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures."

Alfred Korzybski, Polish Scientist

Mankind,

"The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind."

H. P. Lovecraft, American Novelist

Mankind, World

"Visions describe what best should be, could be - if and when mankind has the will to make them real."

James Rouse, American Businessman

Mankind, Visions, Will

"An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind."

Walter Bagehot, English Author

Mankind, Quiet

"It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind."

Karl Schlegel, German Philosopher

Mankind,

"It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for better things that it moves at all."

George Gissing, British Novelist

Mankind, Nations, Stupidity

"All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind."

Joseph Conrad, Polish Novelist

Mankind,

"I think I did every drug known to mankind, smoked crack, boozed, dropped acid, you name it."

Kid Rock, American Musician

Mankind, Name

"A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

Mankind, Statesman, Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments."

Ludwig von Mises, Austrian Economist

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"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts."

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"The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand."

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"It is always good men who do the most harm in the world."

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"Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts."

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"Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education."

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"The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing."

Trust

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"If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures."

"The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind."

"Visions describe what best should be, could be - if and when mankind has the will to make them real."

"An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind."

"It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind."

"It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for better things that it moves at all."

"All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind."

"I think I did every drug known to mankind, smoked crack, boozed, dropped acid, you name it."

"A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners."

"The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments."

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"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts."

"Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit."

"Friends are born, not made."

"Morality is a private and costly luxury."

"A friend in power is a friend lost."

"The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand."

"It is always good men who do the most harm in the world."

"Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts."

"Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education."

"The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing."