#mankind

To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for. ↗

— Henry Van Dyke

#choice #desire #doing #good #happiness

Poems in a way are spells against death. They are milestones, to see where you were then from where you are now. To perpetuate your feelings, to establish them. If you have in any way touched the central heart of mankind's feelings, you'll survive. ↗

— Richard Eberhart

#any #central #death #establish #feelings

Humankind cannot bear very much reality. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#cannot #humankind #much #reality #very

Liberty is not the unique right of Americans or even Westerners, but is mankind's right. ↗

— Virginia Foxx

#liberty #mankind #right #unique #westerners

Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected. ↗

— Robert Frank

#black #black and white #colors #despair #forever

The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#chief danger #danger #extraordinary #fiend #man

A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#been #book #books #cannot #devil

Be it whim or emergency, the modern laboratory is equally at the service of romance, equally ready to gratify mankind with a torpedo or a toy. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

#equally #gratify #laboratory #mankind #modern

The histories of mankind are histories only of the higher classes. ↗

— Thomas Malthus

#higher #histories #mankind #only

History loved to lie, through simple distortion or complete fabrication. Lies were the cosmetics of history, and when history could not be beautiful, it preferred to be shocking. ↗

— Sean DeLauder

#history-of-mankind #beauty