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  • The whole of mankind is one and only one, one race, one class and one society. -- Maria Montessori
  • If animal history has been a history of evolution, then the history of mankind is one of retrogression. Hooray for monsters! Monsters are the great embodiments of the weak. -- Kobo Abe
  • Internal peace is an essential first step to achieving peace in the world. How do you cultivate it? It's very simple. In the first place by realizing clearly that all mankind is one, that human beings in every country are members of one and the same family. -- Dalai Lama
  • One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests. -- Max Beerbohm
  • It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind. -- Voltaire
  • Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend. -- Ludwig van Beethoven
  • A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants. -- Plato
  • However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing is impossible. -- Lewis Mumford
  • Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other. -- Victor Hugo
  • I happen to think that American politics is one of the noblest arts of mankind; and I cannot do anything else but write about it. -- Theodore White
  • The sexual abuse and exploitation of children is one of the most vicious crimes conceivable, a violation of mankind's most basic duty to protect the innocent. -- James T. Walsh
  • If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry. -- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken. -- Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Real art is one of the most powerful forces in the rise of mankind, and he who renders it accessible to as many people as possible is a benefactor of humanity. -- Zoltan Kodaly
  • The fact is, every thinker, every philosopher, the moment he is forced to abandon his one-sided intellectual occupation by practical necessity, immediately returns to the general point of view of mankind. -- Ernst Mach
  • True prayer is not asking God for love; it is learning to love, and to include all mankind in one affection. Prayer is the utilization of the love wherewith He loves us. -- Mary Baker Eddy
  • All the food we eat, whether Brussels sprouts or pork bellies, has been modified by mankind. Genetic engineering is only one particularly powerful way to do what we have been doing for eleven thousand years. -- Michael Specter
  • The right of conscience and private judgment is unalienable, and it is truly the interest of all mankind to unite themselves into one body for the liberty, free exercise, and unmolested enjoyment of this right. -- Ezra Stiles
  • 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
  • There's one fundamental law that all of nature obeys that mankind breaks every day. Now, this is a law that's evolved over billions of years, and the law is this: Nothing in nature takes more than it needs. -- Tom Shadyac
  • There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world. -- Karl Popper
  • Mankind is one human family. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
  • To govern mankind, one must not overrate them. -- Lord Chesterfield
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  • The one who comes to question himself cares for mankind. -- Kenneth Patchen
  • Worry is one of the most destructive scourges of mankind. -- Maxwell Maltz
  • Does mankind truly hate itself? How can one surmount such irreverence~? -- Brom
  • That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. -- Neil Armstrong
  • One sees a blatant disregard for the precious souls of mankind. -- Thomas S. Monson
  • One of mankind's problems is we keep committing the same errors. -- Ronald Reagan
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  • I wish all mankind had one neck so I could choke it! -- Carl Panzram
  • I feel that one species, mankind, doesn't have the right to exterminate -- Ernst Mayr
  • Ah, why should all mankind For one man's fault, be condemned, If guiltless? -- John Milton
  • He had one illusion - France; and one disillusion - mankind, including Frenchmen. -- John Maynard Keynes
  • Commerce links all mankind in one common brotherhood of mutual dependence and interests. -- James A. Garfield
  • One must be stark mad, to believe that mankind can subsist without magistrates. -- Pierre Bayle
  • We're all mankind and humankind - so just be one and show kindness. -- Amani
  • An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind. -- Walter Bagehot
  • This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. -- Neil Armstrong
  • The best service to mankind is to become immersed in one's True Self. -- Asaram
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  • One day, music will take its rightful place as the true religion of Mankind. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
  • If there's one thing you can say about mankind, there's nothing kind about man. -- Tom Waits
  • Liberty ... is one of the most valuable blessings that Heaven has bestowed upon mankind. -- Miguel de Cervantes
  • Mankind's glorious and people's happy ending is inevitable. No one will be left behind. -- Stefan Emunds
  • I cannot picture to myself a time when all mankind will have one religion. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. -- Arthur C. Clarke
  • There is only one way to degrade mankind permanently and that is to destroy language. -- Northrop Frye
  • All the miseries of mankind come from one thing, not knowing how to remain alone. -- Blaise Pascal
  • A universal beauty clothes the world, And one heart seems to beat for all mankind! -- Robert Montgomery
  • We should know mankind better if we were not so anxious to resemble one another. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • All mankind's troubles are caused by one single thing, which is their inability to sit quietly. -- Blaise Pascal
  • One of the main weaknesses of mankind is the average man's familiarity with the word 'impossible. -- Napoleon Hill
  • One of the joys of reading is the ability to plug into the shared wisdom of mankind. -- Ishmael Reed
  • It is enough that one man hate another for hate to gain, little by little, all mankind. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Education is one of the greatest gift for mankind. Each one of us must seek this enlightenment. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
  • Thus I live in the world rather as a spectator of mankind than as one of the species. -- Joseph Addison
  • Recent history is the record of one vast conspiracy to impose one level of mechanical consciousness on mankind. -- Allen Ginsberg
  • The falsification of history has done more to impede human development than any one thing known to mankind. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • He that accuses all mankind of corruption ought to remember that he is sure to convict only one. -- Edmund Burke
  • Faith is one of only two things in mankind's consciousness that defies discussion. The other is one's marriage. -- Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
  • Food is a central activity of mankind and one of the single most significant trademarks of a culture. -- Mark Kurlansky
  • Sacrifice self to bless one another, even as God has blessed you. Forget self in laboring for mankind... -- Mary Baker Eddy
  • All mankind's unhappiness derives from one thing: his inability to know how to remain in repose in one room. -- Blaise Pascal
  • The armament industry is indeed one of the greatest dangers that beset mankind. It is the hidden evil power. -- Albert Einstein
  • All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions. -- John Locke
  • ...one can hardly deny that mankind has a common store of thoughts which is transmitted from one generation to another. -- Gottlob Frege
  • In the common run of mankind, for one that is wise and good you find ten of a contrary character. -- Joseph Addison
  • It is the art of mankind to polish the world, and every one who works is scrubbing in some part. -- Henry David Thoreau
  • I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am. -- Samuel Johnson
  • Mankind is one, seeing that all are equally subject to the moral law. All men are equal in God's eyes. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • What generally passes for 'thought' among the majority of mankind is the time one takes out to rearrange one's prejudices. -- Clare Boothe Luce
  • God is certainly one. He has no second. He is unfathomable, unknowable and unknown to the vast majority of mankind. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • Love is the greatest corrupter ever known and has been the numbers one downfall of mankind since the first creation. -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
  • Racism and religious bigotry are two essential pieces of baggage mankind carries as it moves from one century to the next. -- R.N. Prasher
  • Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else. -- Bertrand Russell
  • True prayer is not asking God for love; it is learning to love, and to include all mankind in one affection. -- Mary Baker Eddy
  • God is everywhere! the God who framed Mankind to be one, mighty family, Himself our Father, and the world our home. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • Listen to no one's advice except that of the wind in the trees. That can recount the whole history of mankind... -- Claude Debussy
  • Surely the church is a place where one day's truce ought to be allowed to the dissensions and animosities of mankind. -- Edmund Burke
  • LOVE of others is the appreciation of one's self. MAY your egotism be so gigantic that you comprise mankind in your self-sympathy. -- Mina Loy
  • While on that old grey stone I sat Under the old wind-broken tree, I knew that One is animate, Mankind inanimate phantasy. -- William Butler Yeats
  • Beauty is one in the universe, and, whatever form it assumes, it always arouses a religious feeling in the hearts of mankind. -- Madame de Stael
  • No one has the right to change Paris, the protesters say, and argue that the city is the patrimony of all mankind. -- John Vinocur
  • The generation that has the greatest access to knowledge in the history of mankind is the one that cares the least about it. -- James St. James
  • Pain and Oblivion make mankind afraid to die; but all creatures are afraid of the one, none but mankind afraid of the other. -- Margaret Cavendish
  • We peruse one ideal, that of bringing people together in peace, irrespective of race, religion and political convictions, for the benefit of mankind. -- Juan Antonio Samaranch
  • Angels listen when she speaks; She's my delight, all mankind's wonder; But my jealous heart would break Should we live one day asunder. -- John Wilmot
  • I am certainly convinced that it is one of the greatest impulses of mankind to arrive at something higher than a natural state. -- James A. Baldwin
  • A state arises,as I conceive,out of the needs of mankind;no one is self-sufficing,but all of us have many wants -- Plato
  • Laziness is the one common deficiency in mankind that blocks the establishment of a perfect world in which everyone leads a happy life. -- William Feather
  • Only one in command: that's the way in the home And the way in the state when it must find Measures best for mankind. -- Euripides
  • The dead outnumber the living fourteen to one, and we ignore the accumulated experience of such a huge majority of mankind at our peril -- Niall Ferguson
  • It is derogatory to the dignity of mankind, it is derogatory to the dignity of India, to entertain for one single moment hatred towards Englishmen. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • . . . there is a wish in the heart of mankind to be distracted and confused. Truth is but one attraction, and not always the most powerful. -- Joyce Carol Oates
  • Some one called Sir Richard Steele the "vilest of mankind," and he retorted with proud humility, "It would be a glorious world if I were. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
  • To sell oneself for thirty pieces of silver is an honest transaction; but to sell oneself to one s own conscience is to abandon mankind. -- Arthur Koestler
  • THE MAN. Can't they realize that mankind was founded on two basic principles? Religion and Death? The one motivates the other. Both motivate the man! -- Candice Bergen
  • No one knows just how the idea of a soul or the supernatural started... It probably had its origin in the general laziness of mankind. -- John B. Watson
  • One of the fundamental rights of mankind should be that of wearing as many or as few clothes as one likes inside one's own home. -- Sachin Kundalkar
  • If mankind were born tomorrow it would divide into groups; each would scramble to invent their one and only god, and set about butchering each-other. -- Voltaire
  • Friendless I can never be, for all mankind are my kindred, and I am on ill terms with no one member of my great family. -- Charles Dickens
  • My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • I think when the United States of America put a man on the moon in 1969, that was one of the greatest accomplishments mankind has ever done. -- Doug Liman
  • Bad roads and indifferent inns, ... the continual converse one is obliged to have with the vilest part of mankind - innkeepers, post-masters, and custom house officers. -- Edward Gibbon
  • One man is more concerned with the impression he makes on the rest of mankind, another with the impression the rest of mankind makes on him. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Omnicompetence,' the ability to obtain whatever one wants or needs, is an unattainable but continuously approachable ideal for all mankind - past, present, and future. -- Russell L. Ackoff
  • Depending upon one another's hearts, ye had still hoped that virtue were not all a dream. Now are ye undeceived. Evil is the nature of mankind. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • ...What will the present chaos lead to? How will it all end? It can only end in one way. Mankind will be sick of it all.... -- Meher Baba
  • It is Hell, of course, that makes priests powerful, not Heaven, for after thousands of years of so-called civilization fear remains the one common denominator of mankind -- H. L. Mencken
  • The religions of mankind must be classed among the mass-delusions of this kind. No one, needless to say, who shares a delusion ever recognizes it as such... -- Sigmund Freud
  • Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree If mankind perished utterly; And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn, Would scarcely know that we were gone. -- Sara Teasdale
  • Mankind are very odd creatures: one half censure what they practice, the other half practice what they censure; the rest always say and do as they ought. -- Benjamin Franklin
  • no one more sincerely wishes the spread of information among mankind than I do, and none has greater confidence in it's effect towards supporting free & good government. -- Thomas Jefferson
  • One wants to tell a story, like Scheherezade, in order not to die. It's one of the oldest urges in mankind. It's a way of stalling death. -- Carlos Fuentes
  • To speak or do anything that shall concern mankind, one must speak and act as if well, or from that grain of health which he has left. -- Henry David Thoreau
  • My idealism is clearly one reason I'm an artist. I see art as one of mankind's more sublime acts, as a vital counterbalance to our base impulses . -- Richard Schmid
  • One only "right" we have to assert in common with mankind--and that is as much in our hands as theirs--is the right of having something to do. -- Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
  • All the forms of civil polity have been tried by mankind, except one, and that seems to have been reserved in Providence to be realized in America. -- Ezra Stiles
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