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“In short, I conceive that great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by the false estimates they have made of the value of things, and by their giving too much for their whistles.”

Made Values Mankind Gratitude Misery Priorities Great Value

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“It may seem to your conceited to suppose that you can do anything important toward improving the lot of mankind. But this is a fallacy. You must believe that you can help bring about a better world. A good society is produced only by good individuals, just as truly as a majority in a presidential election is produced by the votes of single electors. Everybody can do something toward creating in his own environment kindly feelings rather than anger, reasonableness rather than hysteria, happiness rather than misery.”

Source: A Fresh Look at Empiricism: 1927-42

“There is a strain in Marx of the cleric, of the vulgar moralist. He paints the capitalist and the bourgeois as incarnations of evil; it is they who are responsible for the woes of mankind. The dismissal of the individual's responsibility for his own misery is the quintessence of clericalism.”

Evil Individual Responsibility Mankind Responsible Misery Paint Capitalist Woe Vulgar Strain Incarnation Bourgeois Moralist Quintessence Dismissal

Book:Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky

Source: Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky

“I am conscious that an equal division of property is impracticable, but the consequences of this enormous inequality producing so much misery to the bulk of mankind, legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property.”

Wisdom Politics Economy Mankind Equal Conscious Consequence Property Misery Enormous Inequality Liberalism Devices Division Legislators

Book:The Essential Jefferson

Source: The Essential Jefferson

“The movement of comets is part of the ordinary works of nature which, without regard to the happiness or misery of mankind, are transported from one part of the heavens to another by virtue of the general laws of motion.”

Law Heaven Virtue Atheism Mankind Movement Ordinary Regard Misery Positive Atheism Comets Laws Of Motion

Author:Pierre Bayle

“All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. All intellectual and artistic ambitions are permissible, up to and even beyond the limit of prudent sanity. They can hurt no one.”

Hurt Atheism Mankind Limits Ambition Intellectual Misery Positive Atheism Artistic Climbs Sanity Prudent Credulity

Book:Joseph Conrad’s Sea Tales - Premium Collection: An Outcast of the Islands, The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’, A Smile of Fortune, Typhoon and more: Classics of World Literature from One of the Greatest English Novelists (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)

Source: Joseph Conrad’s Sea Tales - Premium Collection: An Outcast of the Islands, The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’, A Smile of Fortune, Typhoon and more: Classics of World Literature from One of the Greatest English Novelists (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)

“The supernatural Christ of the New Testament, the god of orthodox Christianity, is dead. But priestcraft lives and conjures up the ghost of this dead god to frighten and enslave the masses of mankind. The name of Christ has caused more persecutions, wars, and miseries than any other name has caused. The darkest wrongs are still inspired by it. The wails of anguish that went up from Kishenev, Odessa, and Bialystok still vibrate in our ears.”

“the wealthy white western minority of the world could not hope to prosper if most of the rest of mankind were foundering in hopeless poverty. Islands of plenty in a vast ocean of misery never have been a good recipe for commercial success.”

Ifs World Has Beens White Poor Poverty Rich Mankind Ocean Misery Western Plenty Islands Minorities Hopeless Wealthy Recipes Rich And Poor Vast Ocean

Author:Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

“There is less misery in being cheated than in that kind of wisdom which perceives, or thinks it perceives, that all mankind are cheats.”

Thinking Kind Mankind Misery Perceive Deceit Cheat Cheated

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“Philosophy can add to our happiness in no other manner but by diminishing our misery; it should not pretend to increase our present stock, but make us economists of what we are possessed of. Happy were we all born philosophers; all born with a talent of thus dissipating our own cares by spreading them upon all mankind.”

Should Philosophy Care Born Mankind Talent Increase Add Misery Philosopher Possessed Economist

Book:Enquiry into the present state of polite learning. The citizen of the world

Source: Enquiry into the present state of polite learning. The citizen of the world

“Is there anything more true than human pain? Is there anything more sincere than the cry for help from those who suffer? Only a great wave of mankind's pity can surmount an immense wave of human misery?”

Humans Helping Pain Suffering Mankind Cry Misery Wave Pity Sincere Immense

Author:Ignacy Jan Paderewski

“It is confidently expected that the period is at hand, when man, through ignorance, shall not much longer inflict unnecessary misery on man; because the mass of mankind will become enlightened, and will clearly discern that by so acting they will inevitably create misery to themselves.”

Men Hands Acting Mankind Ignorance Periods Mass Misery Expected Enlightened Unnecessary

Book:First American from the third London edition

Source: First American from the third London edition

“All the miseries of mankind come from one thing, not knowing how to remain alone.”

Knowing One Thing Mankind Misery Not Knowing

Author:Blaise Pascal

“In all the known history of Mankind, advances have been made primarily in physical technology; in the capacity of handling the inanimate world about Man. Control of self and society has been left to to chance or to the vague gropings of intuitive ethical systems based on inspiration and emotion. As a result no culture of greater stability than about fifty-five percent has ever existed, and these only as the result of great human misery.”

Source: The foundation trilogy: three classics of science fiction

“The more weapons of violence, the more misery to mankind. The triumph of violence ends in a festival of mourning.”

Ends Violence Mankind Weapons Misery Triumph Mourning Festivals

Author:Laozi

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

Humans Ideas Atheism Mankind Stage Misery Atheist Human History There Being No God

Author:Madalyn Murray O'Hair

“With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.”

Long Mankind Periods Machines Madness Misery Operations Farms Farmers Agriculture Farming Introduction Meanness Farming And Farmers

Book:The Conquest of Happiness

Source: The Conquest of Happiness

“Young man, two are the forces most precious to mankind. The first is Demeter, the Goddess. She is the Earth -- or any name you wish to call her -- and she sustains humanity with solid food. Next came Dionysus, the son of the virgin, bringing the counterpart to bread: wine and the blessings of life's flowing juices. His blood, the blood of the grape, lightens the burden of our mortal misery. Though himself a God, it is his blood we pour out to offer thanks to the Gods. And through him, we are blessed.”

“Thinking aloud is a habit which is responsible for most of mankind's misery.”

Thinking Mankind Habit Responsible Misery

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind.”

Moral Mankind Intellectual Universal Blind Misery Credulity Covetousness

Book:Nostromo

Source: Nostromo

“The generosity of the Earth allows us to feed all mankind; we know enough about ecology to keep the Earth a healthy place; there is enough room on the Earth, and there are enough materials, so that everybody can have adequate shelter; we are quite competent enough to produce sufficient supplies of necessities so that no one need live in misery.”

Knows Needs Enough Earth Rooms Mankind Produce Materials Healthy Misery Generosity Sufficient Shelter Ecology Adequate Competent Supplies

Author:E. F. Schumacher

“Jesus Christ is the Son of God, who condescended to come into this world of misery, struggle, and pain to touch men's hearts for good, to teach the way of eternal life, and to give Himself as a sacrifice for the sins of mankind. How different, how empty our lives would be without Him. How infinite is our opportunity for exaltation made possible through His redeeming love.”

“The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time; our sense of that, not a disinterested love of science, and certainly not wisdom, is why we devote such a huge proportion of the ingenuity and income of our societies to finding faster ways of doing things - as if the final aim of mankind was to grow closer not to a perfect humanity, but to a perfect lightning-flash.”

Source: THE FRENCH LIEUTENTANT'S WOMAN

“There is not much to be got anywhere in the world. It is filled with misery and pain; if a man escapes these, boredeom lies in wait for him at every corner. Nay more; it is evil which generally has the upper hand, and folly that makes the most noise. Fate is cruel and mankind pitiable.”

Ifs Men World Hands Pain Lying Evil Waiting Fate Mankind Filled Misery Corners Noise Folly Upper Hand Wait For Him Misery And Pain

Book:Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer

Source: Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer