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War is the enemy of all mankind.

War is addictive. Indeed, it is the most potent narcotic unleashed by mankind.

War is the greatest plague that can afflict mankind... Any scourge is preferable to it.

... wealth and female softness equally tend to debase mankind!

Wealth is the smallest thing on earth, the least gift that God has bestowed on mankind.

We are delighted to find a person who values us as we value ourselves, and distinguishes us from the rest of mankind, with an attention not unlike that with which we distinguish ourselves.

We are perverse creatures and never satisfied.

We are reassured almost as foolishly as we are alarmed; human nature is so constituted.

We leave as we came, and, God willing, as we shall return, with peace and hope for all mankind.

We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.

We live in the most amazing period in human history. We can have unlimited energy, unlimited food, provide education for everyone, clean water, all the things that have held mankind back.

We must shed the illusion that we can deliberately 'create the future of mankind'

We never, ever in the history of mankind have had access to so much information so quickly and so easily.

We're all mankind and humankind - so just be one and show kindness.

What is a miracle?--'Tis a reproach, 'Tis an implicit satire on mankind; And while it satisfies, it censures too.

We serve a good God who oversees the affairs of mankind.

We should expect the best and the worst from mankind as from the weather.

We want to lead mankind to the place where there is neither the Vedas, nor the Bible, nor the Koran; yet this has to be done by harmonizing the Vedas, the Bible, and the Koran.

What I really want out of life is to discover something new, something mankind didn’t know was possible to do.

We should know mankind better if we were not so anxious to resemble one another.

What is a hero without love for mankind.

What's the future of mankind? How do I know, I got left behind.

What, man, defy the devil. Consider, he's an enemy to mankind.

What science cannot discover, mankind cannot know.

What succeeds we keep, and it becomes the habit of mankind.

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

When I observe other animals, I understand their behavior. I can't say the same for mankind.

What would become of history, had we not a dependence on the veracity of the historian, according to the experience, what we have had of mankind?

When God would make His Name known to mankind He could find no better word than "I AM." When He speaks in the first person He says, "I AM"; when we speak of Him we say, "He is"; when we speak to Him we say, "Thou art." Everyone and everything else measures from that fixed point. "I am that I am," says God, "I change not.

Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.

When we suffer we have made it into a personal affair. We shut out all the suffering of mankind.

Why cannot we work at cooperative schemes and search for the common ground binding all mankind together?

Words are most malignant, the most treacherous possession of mankind. They are saturated with the sorrows of all time.

Why did God create mankind? Because God likes stories.

Worry is one of the most destructive scourges of mankind.

Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.

You draw closer to truth by shutting yourself off from mankind.

You can become a Communist only when you enrich your mind with a knowledge of all the treasures created by mankind.

You ought to love all mankind; nay, every individual of mankind. You ought not to love the individuals of your domestic circles less, but to love those who exist beyond it more.

A dread filled me, a dread unlike any I had ever felt. Not the terror of God, or his angels, but the sickly fear of man.

You see Christians and Muslims have one thing in common which they do not share with their other religions as far as I know. They claim to be the fortunate recipient of God's final message to mankind.

Accept yourself, seek the divinity within you.

A distorted perspective of mankind is a terrible independence

Adam & Eve have been degraded, reduplicated forever, photocopies of photocopies, mistakes copied, magnified, augmented.

Against ignorance, God Himself is helpless.

A god who becomes a man shows mercy. A man who becomes a god does not.

A goal of this book has been to tear down in some small part these barriers to understanding by attempting to shatter the “divinity of arithmetic,” through showing that even the methods, which we now take most for granted, were not given to us from on high, but were actually the result of centuries of scientific efforts on the part of our predecessors. p. 269

A leader has a great duty. You have to perform beyond the expectation of the people.

A great leader may be executed in the name of malevolence, yet when his followers look upon his legacy they will see not only the man who once stood, but even more will they see the ideas for which he stood.

Ah! I wish I had the courage to work for the debasement of my contemporaries. What good work it would be to defile their daughters: to insinuate something obscene into the infantile hands which caress each paternal beard and cheek; to poison them, even at the risk of perishing ourselves; to do as those Spanish monks did, who drank death in order that they might persuade the French rabble which had violated their monastery to do likewise.