Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Fowler

I don't want to save a creek for the creek's sake, but what's in it for human beings.

Jami Gertz

That's human nature - the ups and downs.

Jane Smiley

There can never be such a thing as a free market, because it is human nature to cheat, monopolize, and buy off others so as to corner the market.

Jane Smiley

English majors understand human nature better than economists do.

Tom Shales

Larry King's show got to be an increasingly lonely outpost of humane civility in a mephitic menagerie of hotheads, saber rattlers, cretins and crackpots.

Tom Cotton

Ambition characterizes and distinguishes national officeholders from other kinds of human beings.

Troian Bellisario

You have to remember what's most important in life. I am loved by so many people and have a wonderful job. I know I'm incredibly blessed. I am a completely lucky human being.

Brian Eno

A culture is the sum of all the things about which humanity can choose to differ.

Eckhart Tolle

There's something in human beings, not all human beings, that is ready for the change in consciousness. It needs to happen now if humanity is not to destroy itself and the planet.

Eckhart Tolle

But there's a shift happening in humanity, a shift in consciousness, happening now because it has to happen now.

Elif Safak

A saint belongs to all humanity.

Elie Wiesel

Humanity? Humanity is not concerned with us. Today anything is allowed. Anything is possible.

Elie Wiesel

Humanity would never tolerate it

Edward Gibbon

History, in fact, is no more than a list of the crimes of humanity, human follies and accidents

Edward Gibbon

The peace of the Eastern church was invaded by a swarm of fanatics [monks], incapable of fear, or reason, or humanity; and the Imperial troops acknowledged, without shame, that they were much less apprehensive of an encounter with the fiercest Barbarians.

Edward Gibbon

Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity.

Edward Gibbon

If we are more affected by the ruin of a palace than by the conflagration of a cottage, our humanity must have formed a very erroneous estimate of the miseries of human life.

David Icke

A group of reptilian humanoids, called the Babylonian Brotherhood, control humanity.

David Hume

Never literary attempt was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human Nature. It fell dead-born from the press.

David Hume

Custom is the great guide to human life.

Anything which is a huge problem for humanity we'll sign up for, if we can find a way to fix it.

Edmund Wilson

The Jew lends himself easily to Communism because it enables him to devote himself to a high cause, involving all of humanity, characteristics which are natural to him as a Jew.

Benjamin Franklin

A good spouse and health is a person's best wealth.

Ben Bernanke

Both humanity's capacity to innovate and the incentives to innovate are greater today than at any other time in history.

Ben Affleck

I'm human, just like anybody else.

Anton Chekhov

What must human beings be, to destroy what they can never create?

Baltasar Gracian

What the multitude says, is so, or soon will be so.

Austin Butler

When you're doing fantasy, you can get so caught up in the magic of it that you lose the humanity.

Ariel Pink

I love everybody. You have to embrace all facets of humanity; love and accept everyone as being part of yourself.

Arianna Huffington

What preoccupies us is the way we define success. If you see your life purely in terms of money and power, then everything in your life becomes about 'Am I getting ahead?' and that is truly a barbaric way to live, because it eliminates huge chunks of our humanity.

Dean Koontz

You know what's wrong with humanity?... The greatest gift we were given is our free will, and we keep misusing it.

Dean Koontz

Humanity is a parade of fools, and I am at the front of it, twirling a baton.

Dean Koontz

The most identifying trait of humanity is our abilty to be inhumane to one another.