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Quotations by Subject: Mankind (28 quotes)

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Science may have found a cure for most evils, but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all--the apathy of human beings.: Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe... Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.: Graham Greene, The Human Factor (1978)
The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.: John Locke (1632 - 1704)
Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.: Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719)
Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.: Laurens Van der Post, The Lost World of the Kalahari (1958)
It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.: Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (1950)
When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy it implies, then the "division" of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human couple will find its true form.: Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (1950)
Understanding human needs is half the job of meeting them.: Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965), speech, October 3, 1952
Everyone who gets sleepy at night should have a simple decent place to lay their heads, on terms they can afford to pay.: Millard Fuller, founder and president, Habitat for Humanity International

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