#mankind

I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#contradictions #find #going #i #i write

They act as if they supposed that to be very sanguine about the general improvement of mankind is a virtue that relieves them from taking trouble about any improvement in particular. ↗

— John Morley

#act #any #general #improvement #mankind

In man - in the history of mankind, this has happened many times, and occupation leaders hang on to the land that they're occupying. People fight to liberate their land. But in the end, the people's will is what achieves victory. ↗

— Hassan Nasrallah

#end #fight #hang #happened #history

The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#brethren #country #good #mankind #world

All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#christian #churches #enslave #human #human inventions

Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#mankind #religion #tyrannies #tyranny #worst

Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other. ↗

— Albert Pike

#all things #born #bound #brotherhood #constitutes

I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#divisions #end #few #find #gain

The proper study of Mankind is Man. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#mankind #proper #proper study #study

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#know #man #mankind #presume #proper