Follies Of Mankind Quotes

#1. The follies of mankind; they are like a night without stars.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#2. I never look at things again once they're done.

Brian Michael Bendis

#3. History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.

Edward Gibbon

#4. Spirit is like the wind, in that we can't see it but can see its effects, which are profound.

Jimmy Carter

#5. Nineteen twentieths of [mankind is] opaque and unenlightened. Intimacy with most people will make you acquainted with vices and errors and follies enough to make you despise them.

John Adams

#6. I am sensible that he who means to do mankind a real service must set down with the determination of putting up, and bearing with all their faults, follies, prejudices and mistakes until he can convince them that he is right.

Thomas Paine

#7. We met less than a week ago and in that time I've done nothing but lie and cheat and betray you. I know. But if you give me a chance ... all I want is to protect you. To be near you. For as long as I'm able.

Marissa Meyer

#8. The secret of life is not in the Die And Live,
The secret of life is Don't ever lose your senses in the NOW.

Sushil Singh

#9. And what did the great British historian Edward Gibbon have to say about the human record so far? He said, "History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind." The same can be said about this morning's issue of The New York Times.

Kurt Vonnegut

#10. And all of the big shots of the car industry are there, strutting their stuff. And that year, they're feeling especially good because cars were selling more than ever before.

David Maraniss

#11. History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
Edward Gibbon

Simon Sebag Montefiore

#12. Perverse mankind! whose wills, created free, Charge all their woes on absolute degree; All to the dooming gods their guilt translate, And follies are miscall'd the crimes of fate.

Homer

#13. Theological religion is the source of all imaginable follies and disturbances. It is the parent of fanaticism and civil discord; it is the enemy of mankind.

Voltaire

#14. We believe that to govern perfectly it is necessary to avoid governing too much.

James Hilton

#15. In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral revolution, an abandonment of its entire traditional ethic of self-restraint.

Jonathan Sacks

#16. For as health is but one thing, and has been always the same, whereas diseases are by thousands, besides new and daily additions, so all the virtues that have been ever in mankind are to be counted upon a few fingers, but his follies and vices are innumerable, and time adds hourly to the heap.

Jonathan Swift

#17. The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.

H.L. Mencken

#18. Huh! Mankind always comes up with ideas to make up for the follies of the status quo. But what happens if those ideas are inflexible and fail to respond to the changing times. They end up betraying the people who believed in them.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#19. In our world photographs of one dead terrorist mastermind carry no real news or information about the nature or horror of war. They just create sensation instead of deeper understanding.

Philip Gourevitch

#20. So once these needs are fulfilled, nobody is going to value these things. If you are well-fed, peaceful, blissful, happy, well-loved, with nothing to complain about, you will not value food, peace, love, compassion so much.

Sadhguru

#21. The great minds approaching understanding will admit they continually gain more questions and less answers.

Doug Berry

#22. Happiness comes in small doses folks. It's a cigarette butt, or a chocolate chip cookie or a five second orgasm. You come, you smoke the butt you eat the cookie you go to sleep wake up and go back to fucking work the next morning, THAT'S IT! End of fucking list!

Denis Leary

#23. Comedy naturally wears itself out - destroys the very food on which it lives; and by constantly and successfully exposing the follies and weaknesses of mankind to ridicule, in the end leaves itself nothing worth laughing at.

William Hazlitt