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“For each of the four hundred and four bodily ailments celebrated physicians have produced infallible remedies, but the malady which brings the greatest distress to mankind - to even the wisest and cleverest of us - is the plague of poverty.”

Poverty Four Mankind Hundred Remedy Physicians Distress Plague Wisest Infallible Malady Ailments

Author:Ihara Saikaku

“One world, one mankind cannot exist in the face of six, four or even two scales of values: We shall be torn apart by this disparity of rhythm, this disparity of vibrations.”

World Two Wisdom Faces Values Politics Economy Four Mankind Six Scales Rhythm Liberalism Torn Vibrations Disparity Torn Apart

Book:The Gulag Archipelago Volume 2: An Experiment in Literary Investigation

Source: The Gulag Archipelago Volume 2: An Experiment in Literary Investigation

“My History of the Jesuits is in four volumes.... This society has been a greater calamity to mankind than the French Revolution, or Napoleon's despotism or ideology. It has obstructed progress of reformation and the improvement of the human mind in society much longer and more fatally.”

Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

“Let us meet four times a year in a grand temple with music, and thank God for all his gifts. There is one sun. There is one God. Let us have one religion. Then all mankind will be brethren.”

Years Religion Sun Four Mankind Temples Thank God Brethren

Author:Voltaire

“Fate! This four letter little word gave the biggest harm to mankind! We must totally get rid of this degrading concept of primitiveness!”

Littles Four Fate Mankind Concepts Letters Harm Degrading

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“The history of mankind for the last four centuries is rather like that of an imprisoned sleeper, stirring clumsily and uneasily while the prison that restrains and shelters him catches fire, not waking but incorporating the crackling and warmth of the fire with ancient and incongruous dreams, than like that of a man consciously awake to danger and opportunity.”

Men Dream Lasts Opportunity Fire Four Mankind Century Danger Prison Ancient Awake Warmth Waking Shelter Stirring Sleepers Incorporating

Book:A Short History of the World

Source: A Short History of the World

“There’s no point in acting surprised about it. All the planning charts and demolition orders have been on display at your local planning department in Alpha Centauri for 50 of your Earth years, so you’ve had plenty of time to lodge any formal complaint and it’s far too late to start making a fuss about it now... What do you mean you’ve never been to Alpha Centauri? Oh, for heaven’s sake, mankind, it’s only four light years away, you know. I’m sorry, but if you can’t be bothered to take an interest in local affairs, that’s your own lookout. Energize the demolition beams.”