#mankind

Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#buried #consists #deeply #fundamental #lies

Never have things of the spirit counted for so little. Never has hatred for everything great been so manifest – disdain for beauty, execration of literature. I have always tried to live in an ivory tower, but a tide of shit is beating at its walls, threatening to undermine it. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#life #mankind #beauty

Ingratitude is treason to mankind. ↗

— James Thomson

#mankind #treason

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind. ↗

— Voltaire

#become #enemy #good #lamentable #mankind

This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it. ↗

— Voltaire

#dear #gives #instrument #love is #mankind

The sexual abuse and exploitation of children is one of the most vicious crimes conceivable, a violation of mankind's most basic duty to protect the innocent. ↗

— James T. Walsh

#basic #children #conceivable #crimes #duty

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government. ↗

— George Washington

#left #mankind #own #their #themselves

My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth. ↗

— George Washington

#earth #first #mankind #plague #see

What love is to man, music is to the arts and to mankind. ↗

— Carl Maria von Weber

#love #love is #man #mankind #music

I happen to think that American politics is one of the noblest arts of mankind; and I cannot do anything else but write about it. ↗