(756 quotes found)
“I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Mankind differs from the animals only by a little and most people throw that away.”
Confucius
“I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Man is a being with free will; therefore, each man is potentially good or evil, and it's up to him and only him (through his reasoning mind) to decide which he wants to be.”
Ayn Rand
“Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“We are all alike on the inside”
Mark Twain
“Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots.”
Frank A. Clark
“Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.”
Viktor Frankl
“Masturbation: the primary sexual activity of mankind. In the nineteenth century it was a disease; in the twentieth, it's a cure.”
Thomas S. Szasz
“Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.”
George Bernard Shaw