We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.
All the kindness which a man puts out into the world works on the heart and thoughts of mankind.
Fairy tales since the beginning of recorded time, and perhaps earlier, have been “a means to conquer the terrors of mankind through metaphor.
The atomic bomb embodies the results of a combination genius and patience as remarkable as any in the history of mankind.
Music is the universal language of mankind.
Mankind thinks either too much or too little of sin.
It is not the possessions but the desires of mankind which require to be equalized.
The Jews looked for a special savior, a messiah, who was to redeem mankind by the agreeable process of restoring the fabulous glories of David and Solomon, and bringing the whole world at last under the firm but benevolent Jewish heel.
The passion for power over others can never cease to threaten mankind, and is always sure of finding new and unforseen allies in continuing its martyrology.
People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.
The devil himself can become beauty, so we are told, to corrupt mankind. " (Marco)
A vision of truth which does not call upon us to get out of our armchair - why, this is the desideratum of mankind.
Self-love leads men of narrow minds to measure all mankind by their own capacity.
A knowledge of mankind and of things that surround us gives us that second education which proves far move valuable than our first because it alone turns out a truly accomplished man.
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.
The great community of mankind had been subdivided into ten thousand communities, each organized for the ruin of the other.
mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.
Apology is mankind's nearest course to perfection.
How did mankind ever come by the idea of liberty? What a grand thought it was!
Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols -- it is all that they ask; the distinctions of right and wrong, of truth and falsehood, of good and evil, are worse than indifferent to them.