#mankind

This devil loves mankind because men are going to always make the choice that will send him into ascendancy. He's been winning the game for a long time. ↗

— Taylor Hackford

#ascendancy #because #been #choice #devil

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased. ↗

— Alexander Hamilton

#divinity #erased #hand #human #human nature

For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because it spells out so vividly the kind of happiness that most people actually want, regardless of what they are told they ought to want. ↗

— Ferdinand Mount

#america #because #best #faults #happiness

Do not commit the error, common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed. ↗

— Jan de Hartog

#assuming #cannot #commit #common #error

To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#highest wisdom #ill #mankind #perhaps #them

A troubled and afflicted mankind looks to us, pleading for us to keep our rendezvous with destiny; that we will uphold the principles of self-reliance, self-discipline, morality, and, above all, responsible liberty for every individual that we will become that shining city on a hill. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#self-reliance #mankind

Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked ↗

— Richard Buckminster Fuller

#mankind #stupidity #intelligence

Since the war, we're the only intelligent species left in the universe, therefore we think everything in this universe has to conform to our paradigm of what makes sense. Do you have any idea how arrogant that view is and on how little of this universe we base it? ↗

— Robert Buettner

#conformity #grand-picture #human-behavior #human-superiority #humankind

They say God appeared in history and used it for his purposes, but if that was so he had no pity for men. ↗

— Bernard Malamud

#history #mankind #men #pity #men

The invisible people knew that happiness is not the natural state of mankind, and is never achieved from the outside in. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#mankind #nature