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A politician divides mankind into two classes; tools and enemies.
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More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
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Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind.
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A famous person is often remembered for the ability to take from mankind rather than for his ability to give to mankind.
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A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong.
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All mankind
Is born for perfection
And each shall attain it
Will he but follow
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All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.
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All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.
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Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for competitors.
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Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.
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Idealists are foolish enough to throw caution to the winds. They have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.
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In the exhaustless catalogue of Heaven's mercies to mankind the power we have of finding some germs of comfort in the hardest trials, must ever occupy the foremost place.
Source: Barnaby Rudge -
It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
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It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshipped in civilized countries is not at all divine, though he bears a divine name, but is the overwhelming authority and respectability of mankind combined. Men reverence one another, not yet God.
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Mankind differs from the animals only by a little and most people throw that away.
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Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking, and its greatest failures by not talking.
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Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.
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More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
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Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
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My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.
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