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“If I were to give a summary of the tendency of our times, I would say, Quantity. The multitude, the mass spirit, dominates everywhere, destroying quality. Our entire life--production, politics, and education--rests on quantity, on numbers. The worker who once took pride in the thoroughness and quality of his work, has been replaced by brainless, incompetent automatons, who turn out enormous quantities of things, valueless to themselves, and generally injurious to the rest of mankind. Thus quantity, instead of adding to life's comforts and peace, has merely increased man's burden.”

Source: Anarchism and Other Essays

“If we could suppose a great multitude of men to consent to the observation of justice, and other laws of Nature, without a common Power to keep them all in awe; we might as well suppose all mankind to do the same; and then there neither would be nor need to be any civil government or commonwealth at all, because there would be Peace without subjection.”

Ifs Men Needs Wells Government Might Would Be Law Justice Common Mankind Observation Awe Multitudes Consent Laws Of Nature Commonwealth Subjection

Book:Leviathan: Or the Matter, Forme, and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil

Source: Leviathan: Or the Matter, Forme, and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil

“We meet With few utterly dull and stupid souls: the sublime and transcendent are still fewer; the generality of mankind stand between these two extremes: the interval is filled with multitudes of ordinary geniuses, but all very useful, and the ornaments and supports of the commonwealth.”

Stills Two Soul Support Mankind Stupid Genius Ordinary Filled Extremes Dull Mediocrity Fewer Multitudes Sublime Transcendent Ornaments Intervals Commonwealth Generalities Two Extremes

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“Happy those Who in the after-days shall live, when Time Hath spoken, and the multitude of years Taught wisdom to mankind!”

Years Wisdom Mankind Taught Multitudes

Book:The Poetical Works of Robert Southey: Complete in One Volume

Source: The Poetical Works of Robert Southey: Complete in One Volume

“Mankind might be divided between multitude who hate to be kept waiting because they get bored and the happy few who rather like it because it gives them time for thought.”

Giving Might Hate Waiting Mankind Bored Divided Multitudes

Author:Ernest Dimnet

“The goodness of God to mankind is no less evinced in the chastisement with which He corrects His children than in the smiles of His providence; for the Lord will not cast off forever, but though He cause grief, yet will He have compassion according to the multitude of His mercies.”

Children Causes Grief Compassion Lord Forever Mankind Goodness Mercy Casts Punishment Providence Multitudes Chastisement Goodness Of God

Author:Hosea Ballou

“Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them, while on the other hand to know and understand a multitude of things renders men cautious in passing judgment upon anything new.”

People Knows Men Long Matter Hands Mankind Taught Judgment Regard Arguing Passing Passings Multitudes Positively Cautious Passing Judgment

Author:Galileo Galilei