Famous Quotes & Sayings

Harry Stack Sullivan

All of us are much more human than otherwise

Frank Herbert

The best contribution one can make to humanity is to improve oneself.

Jesse Ventura

The communism of Karl Marx would probably be actually the best for everybody as a whole. But what he didn't figure into was human nature, and that's what corrupts it.

Carla Gugino

One of the most important things for an actor is to observe humanity.

Buzz Aldrin

There are a lot of reasons for not doing something. And if humanity had come up with all the reasons for not doing something we wouldn't have spread across the Earth the way we have. There's a curiosity, and I would submit that that curiosity will put human beings on the surface of Mars.

Myles Munroe

Every human being was born with an inherent gift, and that gift is their gift to humanity; they are supposed to serve humanity in the area of their gifting.

Natalie Clifford Barney

I'm fond of human beings, but only one at a time.

Katherine Paterson

Words are humanity's greatest natural resource, but most of us have trouble figuring out how to put them together. Words aren't cheap. They are very precious.

Julia Stiles

I was happy when I read the script [The Bourne Ultimatum ] - the first version they sent me - to see that before, there's some humanity too.

Kim Harrison

that was humanity's problem right there. they are brain damaged from the early sun

Sanjay Gupta

He can feel things now that he previously couldn't feel, pins and needles at times and also being able to feel human touch,

He realized that he was the first human being she'd ever seen. He was touched in a way that he hadn't imagined he could be.

Isaiah Berlin

Out of the crooked timber of humanity, nothing completely straight was ever made

Iris Murdoch

to be understood is not a human right. Even to understand oneself is not a human right.

Immanuel Kant

Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.

J. Michael Straczynski

I am big believer in the notion that as a species we are better together than we are apart, that the common core of our shared humanity is stronger than that which seeks to marginalize us and factualize us and turn us against each other.

Georg Buchner

The strides of humanity are slow, they can only be counted in centuries.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity. To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task.

Noam Chomsky

If humans were totally unstructured creatures, they would be... a tool which can properly be shaped by outside forces.

If I had only 50 people, that would have been good. Obviously, having 250 people is great. It is only human to try and search for a better life for your children.

John Key

I care about people's human rights and, as a country, we have a very proud record indeed. But I'm also realistic about what we can do... we can raise those issues with leaders and we can talk about those issues, and we do that.

I don't think there is any more moving instance on human relations today than the story of her family.

Arthur Phillips

I do worry that it's impossible to write something original, that there's nothing that a human hasn't already thought of. But I can put it out of my mind and get on with what I'm doing.

Comets are some of the most informative occupants of the solar system. The more we can learn from science exploration missions like Stardust, the more we can prepare for human exploration to the Moon, Mars, and beyond.

Howard Schultz

The success of the Starbucks has been based on this balance between profitability and a social conscience. Everywhere we're doing business, were trying to manage the business through the lens of humanity.

James D. Watson

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.

Isaac Asimov

Economics is on the side of humanity now.

Immanuel Kant

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.

Irving Babbitt

The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.

Irving Babbitt

A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism.

He's up to having a life like a normal human being.

Paul Harvey

Each generation imagines that we're all going to hell. Each generation goes through a little hell and comes out heat tempered and better than before.

Paul Hawken

It is critical to realize that underlying the extermination of nature is the marginalization of human beings. If we are to save what is wild, what is irreparable and majestic in nature, then we will ironically have to turn to each other and take care of all the human beings here on Earth. There is no boundary that will protect an environment from a suffering humanity.