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Joseph Baretti (top)
I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.
- Joseph Baretti


Samuel Butler (top)
Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
- Samuel Butler


Mahatma Gandhi (top)
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
- Mahatma Gandhi


André Gide (top)
So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
- André Gide


Homer (top)
The fates have given mankind a patient soul.
- Homer


Samuel Johnson (top)
As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly.
- Samuel Johnson


Blaise Pascal (top)
I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.
- Blaise Pascal


Bertrand Russell (top)
It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.
- Bertrand Russell


Mark Twain (top)
Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to.
- Mark Twain
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
- Mark Twain


Oscar Wilde (top)
I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability.
- Oscar Wilde