Quotes with mankind

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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes I firmly believe that if the whole material medical could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind, and all the worse for the sea.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Samuel Johnson I hate mankind, for I think of myself as one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Leonardo Da Vinci I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.
    Leonardo Da Vinci
    Italian painter, engineer and musician (1452 - 1519)
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  • Charles M. Schulz I love mankind... it's people I can't stand!
    Charles M. Schulz
    American cartoonist (1922 - 2000)
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  • Charles M. Schultz I love mankind; it's people I can't stand.
    Charles M. Schultz
    American cartoonist (1922 - 2000)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • William Butler Yeats I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Alfred Korzybski If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures.
    Alfred Korzybski
    Polish-American independent scholar (1879 - 1950)
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  • Ouida If all feeling for grace and beauty were not extinguished in the mass of mankind at the actual moment, such a method of locomotion as cycling could never have found acceptance; no man or woman with the slightest aesthetic sense could assume the ludicrous position necessary for it.
    Ouida
    English novelist, pseudonym of Maria Louise Ramé (1839 - 1908)
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  • John Stuart Mill If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • John Stuart Mill If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • William E. Gladstone If Germany is to become a colonizing power, all I say is, ''God speed her!'' She becomes our ally and partner in the execution of the great purposes of Providence for the advantage of mankind.
    William E. Gladstone
    British Liberal Prime Minister, Statesman (1809 - 1888)
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  • Bernie S. Siegel If God had made a perfect world, it would be a magic trick, not creation, with no meaning or place for us to learn and create. Mankind is not yet ready for a perfect world. We do not know how to appreciate perfection.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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  • William Hazlitt If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Albert Einstein If one were to take that goal out of out of its religious form and look merely at its purely human side, one might state it perhaps thus: free and responsible development of the individual, so that he may place his powers freely and gladly in the service of all mankind.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Andreas Capellanus If out of all mankind one finds a single friend, he has found something more precious than any treasure, since there is nothing in the world so valuable that it can be compared to a real friend.
    Andreas Capellanus
    French writer (1150 - 1220)
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  • John Adams If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?
    John Adams
    President of the USA (2nd) (1735 - 1826)
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  • Alexander Pope If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • John Tillotson Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.
    John Tillotson
    British theologist (1630 - 1694)
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