Famous Quotes & Sayings

Daniel H. Wilson

...humanity learns true lessons only in cataclysm.

Coco Chanel

One should refrain from contempt for the baser specimens of humanity, for whom liberation amounts to shaving the heads of women who have slept with Germans.

Charles Bukowski

Humanity, you never had it from the beginning." That was my motto.

Charles Bukowski

Humanity, you never had it to begin with.

Charles Bukowski

If I bet on humanity, I'd never cash a ticket.

John Cassavetes

We have problems, terrible problems, but our problems are human problems.

Jane Goodall

If you look through all the different cultures. Right from the earliest, earliest days with the animistic religions, we have sought to have some kind of explanation for our life, for our being, that is outside of our humanity.

Jamie Campbell Bower

For every person that likes you there is going to be a person that doesn't like you. It's the nature of humanity.

Ken Stott

I like to play these unconventional characters, yes. They're close to the way I feel as a human being.

Kristin Gore

I can go days without meaningful human interaction.

Koren Zailckas

If mothers are our first teachers, then having a narcissistic one teaches us that human closeness is terrifying, and the world is a heartless, inconsistent place.

Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so, there can be no human society as we know it.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold.

Evangeline Lilly

If you can't sit in a cafe quietly and be ignored, how can you observe human nature and write a story?

Lee Kuan Yew

I have always thought that humanity was animal-like. The Confucian theory was man could be improved, but I'm not sure he can be. He can be trained; he can be disciplined.

Religion is everywhere. There are no human societies without it, whether they acknowledge it as a religion or not.

Edward G. Robinson

Nothing human is foreign to us

Alan Rudolph

Anyway, I just haven't been able to find any humanity in any Republican candidate ever in my entire life.

Charlotte Bronte

You are human and fallible.

Charles Wagner

Humanity lives and always has lived on certain elemental provisions.

Charles Dickens

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .

Alan Watts

The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.

David Mitchell

Anticipating the end of the world is humanity's oldest passtime

David Mitchell

Your turn has come to sift through the dreck of humanity for rare specks of originality

David Mitchell

The better organized the state, the duller its humanity.

David Kim

Our identity was bestowed upon us by God and when humanity rebelled against God, we were divorced from the source of our identity. In this vacuum, work can wrongfully become the source of our identity wreaking havoc on our lives and work. Work was never meant to carry the weight of our identity.

David Suzuki

Humanity is facing a challenge unlike any we've ever had to confront. We are in an unprecedented period of change.

Chip Kidd

Yes, Garnett Grey was an Architect. Were a psychoanalyst to approach him from behind, tap his shoulder, and say 'Humanity,' Garrett'd spin and respond, without hesitation, 'Solvable'.

Chinua Achebe

We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own.

Chinua Achebe

We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye n'ani ji onwe ya: 'He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down.'

Benjamin Netanyahu

The greatest threat facing humanity is a radical Islamist regime meeting up with nuclear weapons.

Bill Maher

Eell there always is a tendency in human nature to deify.

I had to learn how to think as a positive human being, before anything.