Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mahatma Gandhi

My patriotism is not an exclusive thing. It is all embracing. The conception of my patriotism is nothing if it is not always, in every case, without exception, consistent with the broadest good of humanity at large.

Mahatma Gandhi

Every murder or other injury, no matter for what cause, committed or inflicted on another is a crime against humanity.

Gaby Hoffmann

I'm interested in acting because I'm interested in exploring humanity, and we're all nuts, we're all damaged, and we're all gorgeous, so anything less than that is dishonest to me.

Friedensreich Hundertwasser

The straight line leads to the downfall of humanity.

Freida Pinto

I'm a human being before anything else.

Os Guinness

We human beings are never happier than when we are expressing the deepest gifts that are truly us.

Orson Welles

Human nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Imitation is a necessity of human nature.

Olive Schreiner

Slavery may, perhaps, be best compared to the infantile disease of measles; a complaint which so commonly attacks the young of humanity in their infancy, and when gone through at that period leaves behind it so few fatal marks; but which when it normally attacks the fully developed adult becomes one of the most virulent and toxic of diseases, often permanently poisoning the constitution where it does not end in death.

Octave Mirbeau

Wherever he goes, whatever he does, he will always see that word: murder—immortally inscribed upon the pediment of that vast slaughterhouse—humanity.

Novalis

Humanity is a comic role.

Emile M. Cioran

Humanity adores only those who cause it to perish.

Ellen Glasgow

I liked human beings, but I did not love human nature.

Ellen Glasgow

I don't like human nature, but I do like human beings.

Ellen Glasgow

It is human nature to overestimate the thing you've never had.

Eric Schmidt

The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.

Hjalmar Branting

A formally recognized equality does, however, accord the smaller nations a position which they should be able to use increasingly in the interest of humanity as a whole and in the service of the ideal

Heinrich Heine

Every age has its problem, by solving which humanity is helped forward.

Henry Ward Beecher

Human life is God's outer church. Its needs and urgencies are priests and pastors.

Henry Clay

Let him who elevates himself above humanity . . . say, if he pleases, "I will never compromise"; but let no one who is not above the frailties of our common nature disdain compromise.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What is part of you, you cannot get rid of, even if you were to throw it away.

serious human rights shortcomings in the structure of the trial.

At the same time, I think it's human nature, over 162 games, every once in a while, a player will get upset, ... But it can't be about that.

Ayn Rand

I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities.

Michael Musto

He was never a black-and-white embodiment of someone searching for ideals, but was human and fallible.

To be human is no solution, any more than ceasing to be so.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

God is not free from human beings but for them.

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

I have cherished the ideal a democratic and free society . . . it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.

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.

Viggo Mortensen

Any ordeal that you can survive as a human being is an improvement in your character,and usually an improvement in your life.

John Galsworthy

As for the law--it catered for a human nature of which it took a naturally low view.

Opportunity is no more than a better way of serving and providing for humanities needs.