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Mankind Quotes
"Mankind is made great or little by its own will."
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"The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity."
51
"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind."
38
"By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade."
37
"Christendom appears clearly to me to be one of those trifling, insignificant arts, which has never been of any substantial advantage to mankind."
35
"If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present."
35
"Visions describe what best should be, could be - if and when mankind has the will to make them real."
31
"To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind."
29
"Mankind is considered (by the radical environmentalists) the lowest and the meanest of all species and is blamed for everything."
29
"It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead."
28
"If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?"
28
"Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response."
27
"A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind."
27
"I like to watch mankind in its futile attempt to understand the unknown, when they don't even understand that which they know."
25
"The histories of mankind are histories only of the higher classes."
25
"An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind."
25
"All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind."
25
"The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind."
24
"She has great problems of her own to solve, very grim and perilous problems, and a right solution, if we can attain to it, would largely benefit mankind."
24
"All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind."
22
"If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures."
21
"We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather."
19
"To live in mankind is far more than to live in a name."
18
"The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments."
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"Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious."
17
"One sees a blatant disregard for the precious souls of mankind."
17
"Mankind have their local attachments. They have a particular regard for the spot, in which they were born and nurtured."
15
"Mankind, in all his lusts, punishes himself. The gods have to do very little."
15
"A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners."
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