Famous Quotes & Sayings

Laini Taylor

Humanity, perhaps, that quality of benevolence that humans have, without irony, named after themselves.

Lisa Kristine

I see myself as a witness to humanity.

John Stuart Mill

All the good of which humanity is capable is comprised in obedience.

James Jeans

Humanity is at the very beginning of its existence-a new-born babe, with all the unexplored potentialities of babyhood; and until the last few moments its interest has been centred, absolutely and exclusively, on its cradle and feeding bottle.

James Joyce

But we are living in a skeptical and, if I may use the phrase, a thought-tormented age; and sometimes I fear that this new generation, educated or hypereducated as it is, will lack those qualities of humanity, of hospitality, of kindly humor which belonged to an older day..

James Russell Lowell

The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accurst.

James Hansen

If humanity wishes to preserve a planet similar to that on which civilisation developed and to which life on Earth is adapted, paleoclimate evidence and ongoing climate change suggest that CO₂ will need to be reduced from its current 385 ppm [parts per million] to at most 350 ppm... If the present overshoot of this target CO₂ is not brief, there is a possibility of seeding irreversible catastrophic effects.

Laurence Sterne

Human nature is the same in all professions.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

Do we still have the right to be more than victims?

Friedrich Durrenmatt

The problems of all of humanity can only be solved by all of humanity

Friedrich Durrenmatt

There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them

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)

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.

George Bernard Shaw

You will never have a quiet world until you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

Cynthia Ozick

All writing is presumption, of course, since no one knows what it is like to be another human being.

Tim White

The key here is the sequences. It's about a mile thickness of rocks in the Middle Awash and in it we can see all three phases of human evolution.

The justice system is a human system and it is fallible.

These are human beings, that's kind of a biologically indisputable fact. As a human family, we do a lot better when we don't permit one to be destroyed.

These are human beings; that's kind of a biologically indisputable fact.

Carolyn See

'A Long Way Gone' says something about human nature that we try, most of the time, to ignore.

Eric Hoffer

There is no reason why humanity cannot be served equally by weighty and trivial motives.

Peter Diamandis

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

Marisha Pessl

...the deepest secrets about ourselves that we, in the ultimate act of humanity, will spare those we truly love.

Marianne Moore

It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.

Megan McCafferty

It's human nay-cha...For me to sperminay-cha.

Do not confuse your vested interests with ethics. Do not identify the enemies of your privilege with the enemies of humanity.

Maya Angelou

During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must not allow anything to reduce that. We are obliged to know we are global citizens. Disasters remind us we are world citizens, whether we like it or not.

John Ensign

Human beings crave freedom at their core.

John Ortberg

Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from a messiah complex-except one.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Humanity to me is not a mob. A mob is a degeneration of humanity. A mob is humanity going the wrong way.

Frank B. Kellogg

I share the opinion of those of broader vision, who see in the signs of the time hope of humanity for peace.