Famous Quotes & Sayings

Albert Schweitzer

Never for a moment do we lay aside our mistrust of the ideals established by society, and of the convictions which are kept by it in circulation. We always know that society is full of folly and will deceive us in the matter of humanity. ... humanity meaning consideration for the existence and the happiness of individual human beings.

Albert Schweitzer

Who shall enumerate the many ways in which that costly piece of fixed capital, a human being , may be employed! More of him is wanted everywhere! Hunt, then, for some situation in which your humanity may be used.

Albert Schweitzer

Search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.

Elbert Hubbard

All success consists in this: You are doing something for somebody - benefiting humanity - and the feeling of success comes from the consciousness of this.

Eleanor Roosevelt

What we must learn to do is to create unbreakable bonds between the sciences and the humanities. We cannot procrastinate. The world of the future is in our making. Tomorrow is now.

Deepak Chopra

If you are not astonished that you exist, your humanity is not complete.

Abraham Lincoln

Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity. Democracy will rise superior to the money power.

Aaron Brown

I have been incredibly impressed by the humanity of the coverage.

Aberjhani

Nation-building is never a 'done deal' confined to history already established.

Andrea Dworkin

Touch is the meaning of being human.

David Coverdale

The audience will make you feel like a demigod. But when you leave the stage, get back to being human.

George Bernard Shaw

Stop being Jews and start being human beings.

Ernest Cline

Being human totally sucks most of the time. Videogames are the only thing that make life bearable.

Jean Anouilh

Chacun de nous a un jour, plus ou moins triste, plus ou moins lointain, o u' il doit enfin accepter d'e" tre un homme. There will come a day for each of us, more or less sad, more or less distant, whenwe must accept the condition of being human.

Matthias Schoenaerts

Being human is being a lot of things at the same time.

Mariella Frostrup

The great advantage of being human is that we can employ rational thought and resolve to change our circumstances.

John Irving

… but only because exhaustion is a life-sign; it is at least a form of being human.

Terry Tempest Williams

What is private belongs to me alone. What is personal belongs to all of us through the shared experience of being human.

Barry Commoner

Nothing can survive on the planet unless it is a cooperative part of larger global life.

Edward James Olmos

Chiapas is probably the main concern I have right now for the planet.

Jan Eliasson

We usually say there is always a ‘Plan B,’ but there is no ‘Planet B’.

Eckhart Tolle

To me, inner and outer are so strongly linked that any collective change that happens within human beings, within the human psyche, inevitably will be reflected externally in what happens on the whole planet.

Seth Shostak

The planets and moons of our solar system are blatantly visible because they reflect sunlight. Without the nearby Sun, these planets would be cryptic and dark on the sky.

Ann Druyan

We batter this planet as if we had someplace else to go.

Alice Walker

Activism is my rent for living on the planet.

Alex Van Halen

You come to the planet with nothing and you leave with nothing, so youd better do some good while you are here.

Alex Van Halen

When you leave the planet, you leave music behind.