#mankind

All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#christian #churches #enslave #human #human inventions

Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#mankind #religion #tyrannies #tyranny #worst

Mankind's problems can no longer be solved by national governments. What is needed is world government. ↗

— Jan Tinbergen

#governments #longer #mankind #national #needed

Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other. ↗

— Albert Pike

#all things #born #bound #brotherhood #constitutes

A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants. ↗

— Plato

#conceive #i #mankind #many #needs

Mankind is considered (by the radical environmentalists) the lowest and the meanest of all species and is blamed for everything. ↗

— Dixie Lee Ray

#blamed #considered #environmentalists #everything #lowest

I think I did every drug known to mankind, smoked crack, boozed, dropped acid, you name it. ↗

— Kid Rock

#crack #did #dropped #every #i

Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty. ↗

— John Adams

#mankind #property #real #right #surely

How could you fear a dearth? Have not mankind tho' slain by millions, millions left behind? ↗

— Joel Barlow

#could #dearth #fear #how #left

Being in an area of the planet where scientists believe mankind started is quite amazing. ↗

— Jan de Bont

#area #being #believe #mankind #planet