I happen to think that American politics is one of the noblest arts of mankind; and I cannot do anything else but write about it.
What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.
You can know all there is to know about life and mankind, but what do you really know about yourself?
I think it's wrong the way they criminalize herb. There are many more uses than just smoking. Beneficial to 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.
All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated... As therefore the bell that rings to a sermon, calls not upo...
Laziness and cowardice are the reasons why so great a portion of mankind, after nature has long since discharged them from external direction (naturaliter maiorennes), nevertheless remains under lifelong tutelage, and why it is so easy for others to ...
A great deal of democratic enthusiasm descends from the ideas of people like Rousseau, who believed in democracy because they thought mankind so wise and good that everyone deserved a share in the government. The danger of defending democracy on thos...
Christianity is just simple. Preach as if Jesus Christ is on the first seat listening to you. Work as if Jesus Christ is your immediate supervisor. Give as if you are giving to Christ. Eat and drink as if you are dining with Christ. Walk as if you ar...
When mankind ascended to the stars, he came no closer to God.
...Mankind is not a race of noble savages - but primitive monsters hide inside us, elusive as Sasquatch...
For mankind knows hardly a joy which will surpass that of approval of his work.
The boulder is the truth that the great men know by instinct, and the mountain is the stupidity of mankind.
Could mankind declare it was truly wise? Did man know everything on earth, or would he ever? Certainly not!
The Bible is God speaking to mankind. The more you read the Bible, the more you will hear God speaking to you.
Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.
Our ideal is to make her ever stronger and better and finer, because in that way alone, as we believe, can she be of the greatest service to the world's peace and to the welfare of mankind.
Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.
Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom the source of virtue, and of fame, obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.
Art to me is a humanitarian act and I believe that there is a responsibility that art should somehow be able to effect mankind, to make the word a better place.
The devil himself can become beauty, so we are told, to corrupt mankind." (Marco)
