Mankind

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  • Our humanity is trapped by moral adolescents. We have too many men of science, too few men of God. The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom and power without conscience.
        General Omar Bradley   Best?
  • Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of power.
        Thomas Hobbes   Best?
  • Besides anarchy, the worst thing in this world is government.
        Henry Ward Beecher   Best?
  • To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.
        William Blake   Best?
  • Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. Even before there were large numbers of Negroes on our shore, the scar of our racial hatred had already disfigured colonial society. From the sixteenth century forward, blood flowed in battles over racial supremacy. We are perhaps the only nation which tried as a matter of national policy to wipe out its indigenous population. Moreover, we elevated that tragic experience into a noble crusade. Indeed, even today we have not permitted ourselves to reject or feel remorse for this shameful episode. Our literature, our films, our drama, our folklore all exalt it. Our children are still taught to respect the violence which reduced a red-skinned people of an earlier culture into a few fragmented groups herded into impoverished reservations.
        John F. Kennedy   Best?
  • Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
        Louisa May Alcott   Best?
  • Wisdom born of experience should tell us that war is obsolete. There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force... If we assume that life is worth living, if we assume that mankind has the right to survive, then we must find an alternative to war.
        Martin Luther King Jr.   Best?
  • Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
        Jose Ortega y Gasset   Best?
  • The vow of silence, that's the mind-blower. See, talking is what I do... [i] t's a real need with me, a craving, I'm like a word junkie. I never shut up. I talk to myself, I talk in my sleep. The idea of voluntarily turning off that tap, I can't imagine it! It'd be like, I don't know, all the rivers in the world just slammed to a stop. No churning, no flowing, no white water, just stillness, crushing stillness. I don't think I could stand it, locked up like that in my own psyche. I'd collapse into myself, I'd implode!
        Northern Exposure   Best?
  • Dreams are postcards from our subconscious, inner self to outer self, right brain trying to cross that moat to the left. Too often they come back unread: "return to sender, addressee unknown." That's a shame because it's a whole other world out there--or in here depending on your point of view.
        Dennis Koenig and Jordan Budde   Best?
  • You know, I think that if parents would spend less time worrying about what their kids watch on TV and more time worrying about what's going on in their kids' lives, this world would be a much better place.
        Trey Parker and Matt Stone   Best?
  • We're like actors, turned loose in this world to wander in search of a phantom, endlessly searching for a half formed shadow of our lost reality. When others demand that we become the people they want us to be, they force us to destroy the person we really are. It's a subtle kind of murder. The most loving parents and relatives commit this murder with smiles on their faces.
        Jim Morrison   Best?
  • The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair; and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.
        J. R .R. Tolkien   Best?
  • Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.
        don Miguel Ruiz   Best?
  • Morality is the greatest of all tools for leading mankind by the nose.
        Frederich Nietzsche   Best?
  • Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
        George Bernard Shaw   Best?
  • But in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
        Benjamin Franklin   Best?
  • The shortest and surest way to live with honour in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be; and if we observe, we shall find, that all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice of them.
        Socrates   Best?
  • I am a man, and whatever concerns humanity is of interest to me.
        Terence, Roman Dramatist   Best?
  • In the arena of human life the honours and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities.
        Aristotle   Best?
  • Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.
        J. R .R. Tolkien   Best?
  • The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • I don't know much about history, and I wouldn't give a nickel for all the history in the world. History is more or less bunk. It is tradition. We want to live in the present, and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today.
        Henry Ford   Best?
  • I am loving before I am patriotic: I am human before I am American.
        A. F. Shaw   Best?
  • The ocean is a body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • If you laid all of the lawyers in the world, end to end, on the equator ---- It would be a good idea to just leave them there.
        Unknown   Best?
  • It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.
        Voltaire   Best?
  • Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.
        Iris Murdoch   Best?
  • The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore.
        Henry Louis Mencken   Best?
  • The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
        Albert Einstein   Best?
  • Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.
        John F. Kennedy   Best?
  • The individual must not merely wait and criticize, he must defend the cause the best he can. The fate of the world will be such as the world deserves.
        Albert Einstein   Best?
  • For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
        Rainer Maria Rilke   Best?
  • Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. ...The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive.
        Frank Herbert   Best?
  • Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.
        Ben Hecht   Best?
  • Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
        Aldous Huxley   Best?
  • Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.
        Aristotle   Best?
  • Treat me good, I'll treat you better; treat me bad, I'll treat you worse.
        Sonny Barger   Best?
  • The greatest thing that I have learned is probably the simplest thing any of us can learn: I am who I am.
        Sonny Barger   Best?
  • My flesh is not yet warm, nor is it but winter.
        KaseyL   Best?

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