Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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

Alex Rodriguez

There's a point where you try to be a human being and have some fun. But it's a place I won't be going back to.

Steven Pinker

All of us have a theory about human nature.

Theodore Tilton

The more we study human nature, the less we think of men - the more of man

Eric Lander

The more species we look at, the more, frankly, we find that humans are not exceptional here.

Michael Dowd

Ecology is the new theology; big history is the new Genesis. Those who fail to understand that evidence is modern-day scripture, and that the world we live in is an honorable world, betray God and humanity in the most egregious of ways.

Ravi Zacharias

When I do things my way, I exhaust pleasure very quickly. It is not that Christianity has failed to teach me how to delight in God's presence; it is that I have failed by seeking pleasure through godless ways or by resisting God's provision for me because it is not what I want.

Michael Pollan

Instead of eating exclusively from the sun, humanity now began to sip petroleum.

Sienna Miller

Human nature is such that monogamy is a really hard thing to achieve.

Seth Godin

We don't need more stuff, we need more humanity.

Rajneesh

Half of humanity has been accepting the inner world but denying the outer world.

Michael B. Jordan

For me, with me, making a film is always about humanity.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Val- I’m on Bourbon– (Acheron) I will not venture down that street of crass iniquities and plebeian horror, Acheron. It is the cesspit of humanity. (Valerius)

John Townsend

...the central message of the Bible is about God redeeming a humanity that is in trouble and suffering.

Noomi Rapace

I want to explore more sides of humanity and myself. That's what acting is about.

Nikola Tesla

If the genius of invention were to reveal to-morrow the secret of immortality, of eternal beauty and youth, for which all humanity is aching, the same inexorable agents which prevent a mass from changing suddenly its velocity would likewise resist the force of the new knowledge until time gradually modifies human thought.

N. T. Wright

All history involves selection, and it is always human beings who do the selecting.

Maximilien Robespierre

To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty.

Maya Angelou

Be certain that you do not die without having done something wonderful for humanity.

Max de Pree

Leadership is liberating people to do what is required of them in the most effective and humane way possible.

Paddy Chayefsky

I'm a human being, god-dammit. My life has value!

Plato

Many are the thyrsus-bearers, but few are the mystics.

Philip Zimbardo

Mama, humanity is my business.

Paulo Freire

No one can be authentically human while he prevents others from being so.

Lee Atwater

My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and probably never would have. So, from that standpoint, there is some truth and good in everything.

Peter Diamandis

Mining asteroids will ultimately benefit humanity on and off the Earth in a multitude of ways.