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Henry B. Adams

"The proper study of mankind is woman."

Henry B. Adams, American Historian
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"All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind."

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"The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind."

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"The histories of mankind are histories only of the higher classes."

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"The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher
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"The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind."

H. P. Lovecraft, American Novelist
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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
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"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind."

Rudyard Kipling, English Writer
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"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
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"By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade."

Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch Philosopher
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"To live in mankind is far more than to live in a name."

Vachel Lindsay, American Poet
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"Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education."
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