Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jo Coudert

It is one of those quirks of human nature that you love the person whom you treat well, not necessarily the person who treats you well.

James Nachtwey

Unfortunately, the world continues, history continues to produce tragedies. And it is very important that they be documented in a humane way, in a compelling way.

James McAvoy

For me, Charles Xavier is a monk. He's like a selfless, egoless almost sexless force for the betterment of humanity and mortality.

James Macdonald

The core of humanity's sin problem is not a horizontal behavior to be corrected but a Vertical relationship to be restored.

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.

Ella Maillart

Humanity is made up of an infinity of different individuals. Each of us travels for motives exclusively his own.

Donald Rumsfeld

All the instructions I issued required humane treatment, ... Anything that was done that was not humane has been prosecuted.

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.

Jonathan Rosen

The things that make us human often make us ill.

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.

Mason Cooley

Human nature is a scoundrel's favorite explanation.

Mencius

Human nature is disposed to do good.

Theodore Parker

Humanity is the sin of God

Mahatma Gandhi

For us, patriotism is the same as the love of humanity.

Mahatma Gandhi

Of all the black crimes that humanity is committing against the great Creation, vivisection is the blackest.

Mahatma Gandhi

If untouchability lives, humanity must die.

Mahatma Gandhi

India must learn to live before she can aspire to die for humanity.

John Adams

Power in any Form . . . when directed only by human Wisdom and Benevolence is dangerous.

John Berger

The human quality Degas most admired was endurance.

The human mind might be sewed, but is always tore.

Michael Ovitz

The human condition is not perfect. We are not perfect specimens, any of us. We're not robots.