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Certainty is the enemy of mankind. If you're certain about everything, you have the Inquisition, you have Nazis and you have - that certainty is something to be guarded about.

Christianity is usually called a religion. As a religion it has had a wider geographic spread and is more deeply rooted among more peoples than any other religion in the history of mankind.

Comforts and syphilis are the greatest enemies of mankind.

Common sense is the genius of mankind.

Consciousness is Gods' gift to mankind.

Countless the various species of mankind, Countless the shades which sep'rate mind from mind; No general object of desire is known, Each has his will, and each pursues his own.

Critics, like the rest of mankind, are very frequently misled by interest.

Customs represent the experience of mankind.

Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.

Death offers mankind a full view of truth.

Every year a thousand kilometers of motor-roads will be opened until the greatest work in the history of mankind is completed.

Do not tell me you don’t know you’re pretty. If so, I’m about to lose all faith in mankind. You don’t want to be responsible for that.

Don't ever sell mankind short by saying there's anything he can't do, ever, or anything that he isn't going to do.

Either what we hold to be right and good and true IS right and good and true, for all mankind, or we're just another robber tribe.

Even like as St. Paul was converted, just so are all others converted; for we all resist God, but the Holy Ghost draws the will of mankind, when he pleases, through preaching.

Do not take too artificial a view of mankind but judge them from a natural standpoint, deeming them neither over good nor over bad.

Every man has a vocation. The talent is the call.

Every other man is a piece of myself, for I am a part and a member of mankind.

Every superior personality, and every superior performance, has, for the average of mankind, something mysterious.

Families are the Nurseries of all Societies; and the First combinations of mankind.

Faith is the wors curse of mankind, as the exact antithesis and enemy of thought.

Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.

Few consider how much we are indebted to government, because few can represent how wretched mankind would be without it.

General consultant to mankind.

For most of the wild things on earth, the future must depend on the conscience of mankind.

For there is in mankind an unfortunate propensity to make themselves, their views and their works, the measure of excellence in every thing whatsoever

Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.

Geometry is the only science that it hath pleased God hitherto to bestow on mankind.

For earthly princes lay aside their power when they rise up against God, and are unworthy to be reckoned among the number of mankind. We ought, rather, utterly to defy them.

Free enterprise is the sure and so far the only known way of constantly improving the well-being of mankind.

Friend Tim shakes hands with Perfect Specimen of Mankind. Will never wash right hand again.

Gaming corrupts our disposition and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind.

Geniuses must never die, the progress of mankind depends on us

Gluttony is mankind's exclusive prerogative.

Happy contractedness of youth, nay, of mankind in general, that they think neither of the high nor the deep, of the true nor the false, but only of what is suited to their own conceptions.

God is certainly one. He has no second. He is unfathomable, unknowable and unknown to the vast majority of mankind.

Gratitude, as it were, is the moral memory of mankind. In this respect, it differs from faithfulness by being more practical and impulsive: although it may remain, of course, something purely internal, it may yet engender new actions. It is an ideal bridge which the soul comes across again and again, so to speak, and which, upon provocations too slight to throw a new bridge to the other person, it uses to come closer to him.

Greed and selfishness do seem to be central motivators of mankind.

Here is a good revolution in conscious and a good salvation formula for mankind: Get rid of religion, keep the God!

Hemp will be the future of all mankind, or there won't be a future.

Here is the basic question: Are we marionettes, or are we creatures of free will who just happen to have a lot of jerky reflexes?

Herb is the unification of mankind.

Here let me sit in sorrow for mankind.

He's trying not to laugh. I tell him I would have doomed mankind for him, and he's trying not to laugh.

History proves abundantly that pure science, undertaken without regard to applications to human needs, is usually ultimately of direct benefit to mankind.

How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.

How do you expect mankind to be happy in pairs when it is miserable separately?

Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies and to their exquisite nonsense, till death stares them in the face.

If content with himself and mankind, a man is never harsh or curt.

Human beings invent just as many ways to sabotage their lives as to improve them.