Quotes on mankind
It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.
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Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes
People are like birds: on the wing, all beautiful; up close, all beady little eyes.
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Mignon McLaughlin Quotes
Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom and lakes die.
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Gil Stern Quotes
I viewed my fellow man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape.
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Desmond Morris Quotes
Man uses his intelligence less in the care of his own species than he does in his care of anything else he owns or governs.
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Abraham Meyerson Quotes
Is man a savage at heart, skinned o'er with fragile Manners? Or is savagery but a faint taint in the natural man's gentility, which erupts now and again like pimples on an angel's arse?
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John Barth Quotes
Acedia is not in every dictionary; just in every heart.
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Mignon McLaughlin Quotes
We are perverse creatures and never satisfied.
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Nan Fairbrother Quotes
Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.
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Martin Luther Quotes
A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.
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Christopher Morley Quotes