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Quotes By subject - Starting with M - Mankind
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There are 84 quotes for the subject Mankind
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The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Author: Albert Einstein
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Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.
Author: John F. Kennedy
Work: Speech to UN General Assembly, Sept. 25, 1961
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A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Author: Mark Twain
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If you look for the bad in people expecting to find it, you surely will.
Author: Abraham Lincoln
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Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.
Author: Plato
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The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.
Author: Mark Twain
Work: What Is Man? (1906)
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Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
Author: John F. Kennedy
Work: speech at The American University, Washington, D.C., June 10, 1963
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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.
Author: Albert Einstein
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Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
Author: Fran Lebowitz
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
Author: Aristotle
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Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men.
Author: Albert Einstein
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The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession, what there is of it.
Author: Mark Twain
Work: Following the Equator
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Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.
Author: Mark Twain
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If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. That is the difference between dog and man.
Author: Mark Twain
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He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain.
Author: Mark Twain
Work: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", Chapter 2
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Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the creatures ever made man is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he is the only one that possesses malice. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain.
Author: Mark Twain
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Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
Author: Abraham Lincoln
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Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
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The whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that man are convertible.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
Author: Winston Churchill
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