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

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

Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

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

Thomas Malthus, English Economist

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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

Mankind, Words

"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

"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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"According to the now almost universally accepted theory, all the races of mankind had a common origin."

Ellsworth Huntington, American Educator

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"Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders."

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"Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them."

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"The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything."

People

"Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success."

Government

"Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits."

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"No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation."

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"The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards."

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

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

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

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

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

"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by 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."

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

"To live in mankind is far more than to live in a name."

"According to the now almost universally accepted theory, all the races of mankind had a common origin."

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"Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders."

"Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them."

"The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything."

"Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success."

"The real essence of work is concentrated energy."

"Honor sinks where commerce long prevails."

"It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations."

"Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits."

"No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation."

"The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards."