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Mankind

11/17/2007 8:27:00 PM quoteslover
433 Posts

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)

Re: Mankind

11/17/2007 8:27:17 PM quoteslover
433 Posts

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

Re: Mankind

11/17/2007 8:27:32 PM quoteslover
433 Posts

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)

Re: Mankind

11/17/2007 8:27:48 PM quoteslover
433 Posts

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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