#mankind

To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue. ↗

— William Hazlitt

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To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#extraordinary #mankind #must #pretensions #race

A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

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It has been wisely observed by the greatest of modern thinkers that mankind has progressed more rapidly in every other respect than in morality. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

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It has been a privilege to pursue knowledge for its own sake and to see how it might help mankind in more practical ways. ↗

— Paul Nurse

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I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

#death #desire #general #i #inclination

I like to watch mankind in its futile attempt to understand the unknown, when they don't even understand that which they know. ↗

— Terrence Howard

#even #futile #i #know #like

I sometimes think God allows Great Britain to be unprincipled for the good of mankind. ↗

— Julia Ward Howe

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Democracy is the common pursuit of mankind, and all countries must earnestly protect the democratic rights of the people. ↗

— Jinato Hu

#countries #democracy #democratic #earnestly #mankind

Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue. ↗

— David Hume

#bad #distinct #float #good #greatest