Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Twain

Everything human is pathetic

Marianne Williamson

We need to shift from an economic to a humanitarian organizing principle for human civilization. And women, en masse, should be saying so.

Mikhail Bakunin

He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Gandhi was inevitable. If humanity is to progress, Gandhi is inescapable. He lived, thought and acted, inspired by the vision of humanity evolving toward a world of peace and harmony. We may ignore Gandhi at our own risk.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

For you will never be what you ought to be until they [your fellow humans] are what they ought to be.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

If humanity is to progress, Gandhi is inescapable.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Whenever you are engaged in work that serves humanity and is for the building of humanity, it has dignity and it has worth,

Martin Luther King, Jr.

There is within human nature an amazing potential for goodness.

Nicholas A. Christakis

We cannot understand our humanity just by studying individuals.

Nadine Gordimer

Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature

Nadine Gordimer

It's easier for the former masters to put aside the masks that hid their humanity than for the former slaves to recognise the faces underneath. Or to trust that this is not a new mask these are wearing.

R. C. Sproul

God did not die. The God who took on Himself a human nature died in His humanity, but the deity did not perish on the cross.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?

R. Buckminster Fuller

Quite clearly, our task is predominantly metaphysical, for it is how to get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social behaviors that will avoid extinction.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Universe is the aggregate of all humanity's consciously apprehended and communicated nonsimultaneous and only partially overlapping experiences.

R. Buckminster Fuller

There is an inherently minimum set of essential concepts and current information, cognizance of which could lead to our operating our planet Earth to the lasting satisfaction and health of all humanity.

R. Buckminster Fuller

All of humanity now has the option to "make it" successfully and sustainably, by virtue of our having minds, discovering principles and being able to employ these principles to do more with less.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Humanity is now experiencing history's most difficult evolutionary transformation.

R. Buckminster Fuller

[My vision is] To make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone.

R. Buckminster Fuller

All of humanity is in peril of extinction if each one of us does not dare, now and henceforth, always to tell only the truth, and all the truth, and to do so promptly -right now.

R. Buckminster Fuller

With our minds alone we can discover those principles we need to employ to convert all humanity to success in a new, harmonious relationship with the universe.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Humans have always unknowingly affected all Universe by every act and thought they articulate or even consider.

R. Buckminster Fuller

I do not look upon human beings as good or bad.

Pranab Mukherjee

There is no humiliation more abusive than hunger.

Oliver Goldsmith

The ingratitude of the world can never deprive us of the conscious happiness of having acted with humanity ourselves.

Okky Madasari

My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.

Margaret Chan

After all it really is all of humanity that is under threat during a pandemic.

Mark Twain

I have learned that human existence is essentially tragic. It is only the love of God, disclosed and enacted in Christ, that redeems the human tragedy and makes it tolerable. No, more than tolerable. Wonderful.

Mark Twain

It is your human environment that makes climate

Mark Twain

To eat is human, to digest, divine

Padmasree Warrior

Tech is all about building human connections.

Lea Michele

I've always been such a fan of Habitat for Humanity and the work that they do.

L. Neil Smith

Worse than thieves, murderers, or cannibals, those who offer compromise slow you and sap your vitality while pretending to be your friends. They are not your friends. Compromisers are the enemies of all humanity, the enemies of life itself. Compromisers are the enemies of everything important, sacred, and true.