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Quotations by Subject: Mankind
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.: Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)
To deny our own impulses is to deny the very thing that makes us human.: Andy and Larry Wachowski, The Matrix, 1999
It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.: Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)
The fates have given mankind a patient soul.: Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Iliad
I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.: Joseph Baretti, quoted in Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.: Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Following the Equator (1897)
I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.: Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.: Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)


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