Quotes with mankind

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  • Phillips Brooks No man has come to true greatness who has not felt that his life belongs to his race, and that which God gives to him, He gives him for mankind.
    Phillips Brooks
    American Minister, Poet (1835 - 1893)
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  • Phillips Brooks No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the people, and what God has given them he gives it for mankind.
    Phillips Brooks
    American Minister, Poet (1835 - 1893)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Carl Sandburg Not often in the story of mankind does a man arrive on earth who is both steel and velvet, who is as hard as rock and soft as drifting fog, who holds in his heart and mind the paradox of terrible storm and peace unspeakable and perfect.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Adam Weishaupt Nothing would be more profitable to us than a right history of mankind.
    Adam Weishaupt
    German philosopher (1748 - 1830)
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  • Francis Bacon Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Shelby Foote Of all the passions of mankind, the love of novelty most rules the mind. In search of this, from realm to realm we roam. Our fleets come loaded with every folly home.
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  • Thomas Paine Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Machiavelli Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
    Machiavelli
    Florentine state philosopher (1469 - 1527)
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  • Sir Max Beerbohm One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.
    Sir Max Beerbohm
    British Actor (1872 - 1956)
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  • Woodrow Wilson Only free peoples can hold their purpose and their honor steady to a common end and prefer the interest of mankind to any narrow interest of their own.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • William Lloyd Garrison Our country is the world, our countrymen are all mankind.
    William Lloyd Garrison
    American abolitionist, journalist and suffragist (1805 - 1879)
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  • H.G. Wells Our true nationality is mankind.
    H.G. Wells
    British-born American author (1866 - 1946)
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  • Thomas Jefferson Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Albert Camus Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness. Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • John Adams Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.
    A Defence of the Constitutions of Government (1787)
    John Adams
    President of the USA (2nd) (1735 - 1826)
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