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Letter "M" » Mankind
«Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom»
Author: George MacDonald
| About:
Mankind
| Keywords:
clergyman, clergymen, gate, kingdom, miles, nearer, The Kingdom, thief
«Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind»
«Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts»
Author: Joseph Stalin
(Communist leader, Political Dictator, Prime Minister)
| About:
Mankind,
Politics
| Keywords:
abstract, abstracting, antagonism, antagonisms, divided, division, exploited, exploits, owners
«Many men of course became extremely rich, but this was perfectly natural and nothing to be ashamed of because no one was really poor, at least no one worth speaking of.»
«Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind... War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.»
Author: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
(President)
| About:
Mankind,
War
| Keywords:
conscientious, conscientious objector, distant, enjoys, mankind, objector, prestige, reputation, warrior
«Mankind is made up of inconsistencies, and no man acts invariably up to his predominant character. The wisest man sometimes acts weakly, and the weakest sometimes wisely.»
Author: Lord Chesterfield
(Diplomat, Statesman, Wit)
| About:
Mankind
| Keywords:
inconsistencies, invariably, predominant, weakest, weakly, wisest
«Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| About:
Aggression,
Conflict,
Love,
Mankind
| Keywords:
aggression, evolve, rejects, retaliation
«Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it»
«Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Mankind,
Suffering
| Keywords:
abolishing, sufferable
«Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.»
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