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“We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.”
Albert Einstein
“I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, the one great instinct for revenge for which no expedient is sufficiently poisonous, secret, subterranean, petty - I call it the one mortal blemish of mankind”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn't have it in the beginning.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“The discovery of nuclear reactions need not bring about the destruction of mankind any more than the discovery of matches”
“Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.”
“Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody”
Mark Twain
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
Anne Frank
“I love mankind; it's people I can't stand.”
Charles M. Schulz
“When it is darkest, men see the stars.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.”
Jane Austen