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Quotations by Subject: Mankind (28 quotes)

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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.: H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946), The Outline of History, vol.2, chapter 41, 1921
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But society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but the deficiency, of personal impulses and preferences.: John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873), On Liberty,chapter 3, 1859
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Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heartone of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of Man.: Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849), The Black Cat, 1843
There are similarities between absolute power and absolute faith: a demand for absolute obedience, a readiness to attempt the impossible, a bias for simple solutionsto cut the knot rather than unravel it, the viewing of compromise as surrender. Both absolute power and absolute faith are instruments of dehumanization. Hence, absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983), The New York Times Magazine, April 25, 1971
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The essence of government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.: James Madison (1751 - 1836), Speech in the Virginia constitutional convention, Richmond, Virginia, December 2, 1829
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There are similarities between absolute power and absolute faith: a demand for absolute obedience, a readiness to attempt the impossible, a bias for simple solutionsto cut the knot rather than unravel it, the viewing of compromise as surrender. Both absolute power and absolute faith are instruments of dehumanization. Hence, absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983), The New York Times Magazine, April 25, 1971, p. 24
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The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.: James Madison (1751 - 1836), Speech in the Virginia constitutional convention, Richmond, Virginia, December 2, 1829
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The advancement of the arts from year to year taxes our credulity, and seems to presage the arrival of that period when human improvement must end.: Henry L. Ellsworth, U.S. commissioner of patents, Annual Report, 1843
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There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945)
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Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepare to see them misunderstood.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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