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Mankind

«Mankind's struggle upwards, in which millions are trampled to death, that thousands may mount on their bodies»
Author: Clara Lucas Balfour | About: Mankind | Keywords: upwards
«Man's chief enemy is his own unruly nature and the dark forces pent up within him»
«Mankind has survived all catastrophes. It will also survive modern medicine.»
«Mankind, in the gross, is a gaping monster, that loves to be deceived, and has seldom been disappointed»
Author: Henry MacKenzie | About: Mankind | Keywords: gaping, gross
«Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.»
Author: Samuel Adams (Politician) | About: Mankind | Keywords: feelings, governed, mankind
«Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain»
«Mankind are always happy for having been happy; so that, if you make them happy now, you make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it»
Author: Sydney Smith (Clergyman, Essayist, Wit) | About: Happiness, Humanity, Mankind | Keywords: hence
«Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.»
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne (Novelist, Writer) | About: Mankind | Keywords: jug, jugs
«Man, biologically considered, and whatever else he may be in the bargain, is simply the most formidable of all the beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own species»
«Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism. In heroism, we feel, life's supreme mystery is hidden. We tolerate no one who has no capacity whatever for it in any direction. On the other hand»