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| Mänskligheten består av två skilda släkten: de som lånar och de som lånar ut. | Charles Lamb (1775-1834) |
| Probably all laws are useless; for good men do not need laws at all, and bad men are made no better by them | Demonax the Cynic |
| I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected. | Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935) |
| An individualist is one who pays his taxes with a smile | Al Diamond |
| The growing tip is a small proportion of mankind. They will carry on. As a matter of fact, that is what is happening with the whole humanistic synthesis now; the groundbreaking is done by a few people, and most of the stuff is just routine or mediocr | Abraham Maslow (1908-1970) |
| Man is ultimately not molded or shaped into humanness. The environment does not give him potentialities and capacities; he has them in inchoate or embryonic form, just exactly as he has embryonic arms and legs. And creativeness, spontaneity, selfhood | Abraham Maslow (1908-1970) |
| It is too simple to say `man is basically good' or `man is basically evil'. The correct way would be to say `man can become good (probably) and better and better, under a hierarchy of better and better conditions, but also it is very easy, even easie | Abraham Maslow (1908-1970) |
| Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it. | Adlai E. Stevenson (1900-1965) |
| Man counts what he has refused, not what he has given | African Proverb |
| A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. | Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
| Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world; he then tries to some extent to substitute this cosmos of his for the world of experience, and thus to overcome it. This is what the | Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
| I am a deeply superficial person. | Andy Warhol (1928-1987) |
| All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move | Arabian Proverb |
| As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying. | Arthur C. Clarke (1917-) |
| Some are weather-wise, some are otherwise. | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
| I hope... that mankind will at length, as they call themselves reasonable creatures, have reason and sense enough to settle their differences without cutting throats; for in my opinion there never was a good war, or a bad peace. | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
| Man is a feeble creature, to whom only submission and worship are besoming. Pride is insolence, and belief in human power is impiety | Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) |
| There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths | Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) |
| An evil man is trapped by his sinful talk, but a righteous man escapes trouble | Bible |
| All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room | Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) |
| Me only have one ambition, y'know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together - black, white, Chinese, everyone - that's all. | Bob Marley (1945-1981) |
| If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it; for I am a citizen of humanity first and by necessity, and a citizen of France second, and only by accident | Charles de Montesquieu (1689-1755) |
| Mankind's struggle upwards, in which millions are trampled to death, that thousands may mount on their bodies | Clara Lucas Balfour |
| Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakest creatures; but associated with his kind, he works wonders | Daniel Webster (1782-1852) |
| I may venture to affirm the rest of mankind, that they are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement. | David Hume (1711-1776) |
| All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance | Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) |
| The idealists and visionaries, foolish enough to throw caution to the winds and express their ardor and faith in some supreme deed, have advanced mankind and have enriched the world | Emma Goldman (1869-1940) |
| Often a noble face hides filthy ways | Euripides (480 f.Kr.-406 f.Kr.) |
| However evil men may be they dare not be openly hostile to virtue, and so when they want to attack it they pretend to find it spurious, or impute crimes to it | François de la Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) |
| Every man is his own ancestor, and every man is his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past. | Frederick Henry Hedge (1805-) |
| 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 Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) |
| Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom | George MacDonald (1824-) |
| (Mankind) is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell | George Orwell (1903-1950) |
| There is no dunce like a mature dunce | George Santayana (1863-1952) |
| My first wish is to see this plague of mankind banished from the earth, and the sons and daughters of this world employed in more pleasing and innocent amusements, than in preparing implements and exercising them for the destruction of mankind | George Washington (1732-1799) |
| Our true nationality is mankind. | H. G. Wells (1866-1946) |
| There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his | Helen Keller (1880-1968) |
| I should be pleased to meet man in the woods. I wish he were to be encountered like wild caribous and moose. | Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) |
| Men become civilized not in proportion to their willingness to believe but in proportion to their readiness to doubt | Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) |
| Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another | Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) |
| A man ought to carry himself in the world as an orange tree would if it could walk up and down in the garden, swinging perfume from every little censer it holds up to the air | Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) |
| Man is on earth as in an egg | Heraclitus of Ephesus |
| He possesses dominion over himself, and is happy, who can every day say, "I have lived." Tomorrow the heavenly Father may either involve the world in dark clouds, or cheer it with clear sunshine; he will not, however, render ineffectual things which | George Horace Lorimer (1867-1937) |
| The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of the dog, for the clearly demonstrable reason that Man is the more laughable of the two animals | James Thurber (1894-1961) |
| 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 (1775-1817) |
| I never yet heard man or woman much abused that I was not inclined to think the better of them, and to transfer the suspicion or dislike to the one who found pleasure in pointing out the defects of another | Jane Porter |
| Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest | Jean Paul Richter (1763-1825) |
| Already at the origin of the species man was equal to what he was destined to become. | Jean Rostand (1894-1977) |
| Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. | John Donne (1572-1631) |
| Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, but good men starve for want of impudence. | John Dryden (1631-1700) |
| If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be in silencing mankind | John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) |
| If men would consider not so much where they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world | Joseph Addison (1672-1719) |
| The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things - bread and circuses | Decimus Junius Juvenal (60-127) |
| That deed which in our guilt we today call weakness, will appear tomorrow as an essential link in the complete chain of Man | Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) |
| What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Beauty, and never see the Dawn! | Logan Pearsall Smith (1865-1946) |
| To fly from, need not be to hate mankind | Lord Byron (1788-1824) |
| Men are much more unwilling to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known than their crimes | Lord Chesterfield (1694-1773) |
| 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. | Lord Chesterfield (1694-1773) |
| If man had created man he would be ashamed of his performance | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired. | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| I think that if mankind is an ongoing experiment , it would be better to start again from scratch. | Martin Dansky (1952-) |
| The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay. | Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) |
| The manners of mankind do not differ so widely as our voyage writers would make us believe. Perhaps it would be more entertaining to add a few surprising customs of my own invention, but nothing seems to me so agreeable as truth. | Mary Worley Montagu |
| To mankind in general Macbeth and Lady Macbeth stand out as the supreme type of all that a host and hostess should not be | Max Beerbohm (1872-1956) |
| The outward man is the swinging door; the inner man is the still hinge. | Meister Eckhart (1260-1328) |
| The finest lives, in my opinion, are those who rank in the common model, and with the human race, but without miracle, without extravagance. | Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) |
| Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom. | Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) |
| Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them. | Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) |
| There are plenty of men who philander during the summer, to be sure, but they are usually the same lot who philander during the winter-albeit with less convenience. | Nora Ephron (1941-) |
| 'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays. | Oprah Winfrey (1954-) |
| Men become old, but they never become good | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| Anybody can be good in the country | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny | Paul Tillich (1886-1965) |
| What destroys one man preserves another | Pierre Corneille (1606-1684) |
| Every king springs from a race of slaves, and every slave had kings among his ancestors | Platon (427 f.Kr.-348 f.Kr.) |
| Two conditions render difficult this historic situation of mankind: It is full of tremendously deadly armament, and it has not progressed morally as much as it has scientifically and technically | Pope Paul VI (1897-1978) |
| All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are moveable, and those that move | Proverb |
| There will be vice as long as there are men | Publius Cornelius Tacitus (55-117) |
| The emancipation of our physical nature is in attaining health, of our social being in attaining goodness, and of our self in attaining love. | Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) |
| Man is a piece of the universe made alive | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood; and if there is any truth in him, if he rests at last on the divine soul, I see not how it can be otherwise | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| We are wiser than we know. | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim. | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| Things are in the saddle, And ride mankind | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| When it is darkest, men see the stars. | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| All men in the abstract are just and good | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| Every man is a channel through which heaven floweth | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| We must be our own before we can be another's. | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| Man knows so much and does so little. | Richard Buckminster Fuller (1895-) |
| There are two kinds of people in this world - those who divide everything into two and those who don't | Robert Benchley (1889-1945) |
| Why does insanity always twist the great answers? Because only tormented persons want truth.Man is an animal like other animals, wants food and success and women, not truth. Only if the mind Tortured by some interior tension has despaired of happiness: then it hates its life-cage and seeks further, And finds, if it is powerful enough. But instantly the private agony that made the search Muddles the finding. Then search for truth is foredoomed and frustrate? Only stained fragments? Until the mind has turned its love from itself and man, from parts to the whole. | Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962) |
| It is good for man To try all changes, progress and corruption, powers, peace and anguish, not to go down the dinosaur's way Until all his capacities have been explored: and it is good for him To know that his needs and nature are no more changed, in fact, in ten thousand years than the beaks of eagles. | Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962) |
| Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering. | Saint Augustine (354-430) |
| Men go abroad to admire the heights of mountains, the mighty billows of the sea, the broad tides of rivers, the compass of the ocean, and the circuits of the stars, and pass themselves by. | Saint Augustine (354-430) |
| To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity. | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| It is natural for every man uninstructed to murmur at his condition, because, in the general infelicity of life, he feels his own miseries without knowing that they are common to all the rest of the species | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| Man at his birth is content with a little milk and a piece of flannel: so we begin, that presently find kingdoms not enough for us | Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 f.Kr.-65) |
| Human nature is so constituted, that all see and judge better in the affairs of other men than in their own | Terence (195 f.Kr.-159 f.Kr.) |
| We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed | Thomas Fuller (1608-1661) |
| Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable; that all men are created equal and independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent and inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, and liberty, and the pursuit of hap | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| We hold these truths to be self evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offence that one appreciates them. | Vauvenargues, Marquis de (1715-1747) |
| We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather. | Vauvenargues, Marquis de (1715-1747) |
| I believe that man will not merely endure. He will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance. | William Faulkner (1897-1962) |
| Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be | William Hazlitt (1778-1830) |
| Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism. In heroism, we feel, life's supreme mystery is hidden. We tolerate no one who has no capacity whatever for it in any direction. On the other hand | William James (1842-1910) |
| Man, biologically considered, and whatever else he may be in the bargain, is simply the most formidable of all the beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own species | William James (1842-1910) |
| The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds, and ambitious men of the blasts of fortune | William Penn (1644-1718) |
| Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good as someone else. | William Saroyan (1908-1981) |
| I am Misanthropos, and hate mankind | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| Lord, what fools these mortals be. | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| Neither a borrower nor a lender be. | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| Men are passionate, men are weak, men are stupid, men are pitiful; to bring to bear on them anything so tremendous as the wrath of God seems strangely inept | William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) |
| I weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better | William Wycherley (1640-1716) |