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To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about gifts, name, things

Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.

Quote by Franz Kafka about religion, doubt, tests, faith

The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.

Quote by Franz Kafka about people, history

Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.

Quote by Madalyn Murray O'Hair about religion, history, idea, human imperfections

Finding that no religion is based on facts and cannot be true, I began to reflect what must be the condition of mankind trained from infancy to believe in error.

Quote by Robert Owen about religion, error, faith

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.

Quote by Thomas Paine about opinion, christianity, power, human imperfections

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

Quote by Thomas Paine about religion

The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.

Quote by Thomas Paine about world, religion, country, good, good luck

The most wonderful study of mankind is man. Relieving human suffering and diffusing universal knowledge is humanitarian.

Quote by Daniel D. Palmer about miracle, suffering, knowledge, human imperfections, man

No man is so great as mankind.

Quote by Theodore Parker about man

The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind not the fiend or the sadist.

Quote by Erich Fromm about power, danger, man

I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.

Quote by Walt Whitman about god

Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.

Quote by Niccolo Machiavelli about people

The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.

Quote by H. P. Lovecraft about world, joke

Ingratitude is treason to mankind.

Quote by James Thomson about opinion, ingratitude, treason

In the dark, equality for all of mankind couldn't seem brighter.

Quote by Robert M. Hensel about equality, dark

To find equality for mankind, we must first remove the barriers that have divided us for so long.

Quote by Robert M. Hensel about equality

My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.

Quote by George Washington about war, wish, earth

All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.

Quote by Jack Kerouac about people, dream, human imperfections

The history of mankind is the history of ideas.

Quote by Luigi Pirandello about history