#mankind

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom the source of virtue, and of fame, obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed. ↗

— William Whitehead

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What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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God invented mankind because he loved silly stories. ↗

— Ralph Steadman

#god #invented #loved #mankind #silly

What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

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There are some persons in this world, who, unable to give better proof of being wise, take a strange delight in showing what they think they have sagaciously read in mankind by uncharitable suspicions of them. ↗

— Herman Melville

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Equal and united people can above all become a part of the civilization toward which mankind is moving. If we cannot be at the head of the column leading to such a civilization, there is certainly no need for us to be at is tail. ↗

— Slobodan Milosevic

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Boldness and decision command, often even in evil, the respect and concurrence of mankind. ↗

— Robert Dale Owen

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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts. ↗

— Plotinus

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I know that if the peace movement takes its message boldly to the Negro people a powerful force can be secured in pursuit of the greatest goal of all mankind. And the same is true of labor and the great democratic sections of our population. ↗

— Paul Robeson

#democratic #force #goal #great #greatest

At a time when science plays such a powerful role in the life of society, when the destiny of the whole of mankind may hinge on the results of scientific research, it is incumbent on all scientists to be fully conscious of that role, and conduct themselves accordingly. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#conduct #conscious #destiny #fully #hinge