Quotes about hum
humanity flaws capacity
The truly frightening flaw in humanity is our capacity for cruelty - we all have it. Gillian Flynn
humbling
It’s humbling, to become the very thing you once mocked. Gillian Flynn
humidity filled
I am filled with humidity. Gib Lewis
humanity illusion communism
Communism has been the greatest and bloodiest illusion that humanity ever bore Gianfranco Fini
humility judging judgment-of-others
We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts. Harold Nicolson
humorous reality kind
When you lead a life of scholarship you can't be bothered with the humorous realities, you know, tits, that kind of thing. Harold Pinter
humanity intellectual heritage
There is no firm reason to anticipate that the intellectual capacities of peoples geographically separated in their evolution should prove to have evolved identically. Our wanting to reserve equal powers of reason as some universal heritage of humanity will not be enough to make it so. James D. Watson
humor
Follow your own weird. James Broughton
humor democracies-have sheep
Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. James Bovard
humble people police
Some people call Police Story the greatest action film of all time, and while I have to be humble and say that I disagree, it's definitely the favorite action film I've ever made. Jackie Chan
humble pins pretension
Oh, for a pin that would puncture pretension! Isaac Asimov
humorous all-time-low world
Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all time low over the world. Isaac Asimov
humanity sides economics
Economics is on the side of humanity now. Isaac Asimov
humility tolerance world
The world can be better if there's love, tolerance and humility. Irena Sendler
humanity als timber
Aus so krummen Holze, als woraus der Mensch gemacht ist, kann nichts ganz Gerades gezimmert werden. Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing can ever be made. Immanuel Kant
humility pride order
Humility is often merely feigned submissiveness assumed in order to subject others, an artifice of pride which stoops to conquer, and although pride has a thousand ways of transforming itself it is never so well disguised and able to take people in as when masquerading as humility. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
humility gains power-over-others
Humility is often a false front we employ to gain power over others. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
humility sacrifice wish
Humility is the altar upon which God wishes that we should offer Him His sacrifices. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
humility pride order
Humility is often only feigned submission which people use to render others submissive. It is a subterfuge of pride which lowers itself in order to rise. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
humility form conceit
Humility is the worst form of conceit. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
humble people want
Plenty of people want to be pious, but no one yearns to be humble. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
humorous ideas passionate
I love the protest signs protected by the First Amendment - some of them humorous, some of them passionate, some factual, some entirely incorrect - all of them free ideas. Jennifer Granholm
human-nature introspection
Introspection is always retrospection Jean-Paul Sartre
humility institutions refuse
A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution. Jean-Paul Sartre
humble modesty virtue
I will not be modest. Humble, as much as you like, but not modest. Modesty is the virtue of the lukewarm. Jean-Paul Sartre
humble sacrifice thinking
Let us lose none of their humble words, let us note their slightest gestures, and tell me, tell me that we will think of them together, now and later, when we realise the misery of the times and the magnitude of their sacrifice. Georges Duhamel
humanity tasks world
Humanity-attached-to-the-task-of-changing-the-world, which is only a single and fragmentary aspect of humanity, will itself be changed in humanity-as-entirety. Georges Bataille
humanity want realizing
If I want to realize totality in my consciousness, I have to relate myself to an immense, ludicrous, and painful convulsion of all of humanity. Georges Bataille
humility eye men
God, give me a deep humility, a well-guided zeal, a burning love and a single eye, and then let men or devils do their worst! George Whitefield
humble thinking littles
Be humble, talk little, think and pray much. George Whitefield
humorous air-travel airplanes-and-flying
I like terra firma; the more firma, the less terra. George S. Kaufman
humor savages curious
Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that Humour excites in those who lack it. George Saintsbury
humanity outraged
Humanity is outraged in me and with me. George Sand