Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frank B. Kellogg

It is not to be expected that human nature will change in a day.

Lloyd Alexander

Story , finally, is humanity 's autobiography .

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Human nature is not obliged to be consistent.

Lionel Trilling

Everything which the economist takes from you in the way of life and humanity, he restores to you in the form of money and wealth.

Lion Feuchtwanger

What is a historian, anyway? It is someone who uses facts to record the development of humanity.

Leo Tolstoy

The march of humanity, springing as it does from an infinite multitude of individual wills, is continuous.

Leo Tolstoy

Humanity unceasingly strives forward from a lower, more partial and obscure understanding of life to one more general and more lucid.

Leo Tolstoy

The earth is the general and equal possession of all humanity and therefore cannot be the property of individuals.

Lee Strasberg

The human being who acts is the human being who lives.

Lady Gaga

We are not actually equal - humanity - if we are not allowed to freely love one another.

Joseph Stiglitz

The notion that every well educated person would have a mastery of at least the basic elements of the humanities, sciences, and social sciences is a far cry from the specialized education that most students today receive, particularly in the research universities.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

The need to raise itself above humanity is humanity's main characteristic.

John Major

I can't legislate to change human nature.

John Lydon

I don't like the monikers, and I don't like being pigeonholed. You know, I'm a human being.

John Locke

What humanity abhors, custom reconciles and recommends to us.

Emanuel Swedenborg

Conscience is God's presence in humans.

Judith Martin

What restricts the use of the word 'lady' among the courteous is that it is intended to set a woman apart from ordinary humanity, and in the working world that is not a help, as women have discovered in many bitter ways.

Karen Armstrong

I'm seeking to make sense of life, looking for its meaning and how we can have a better humanity.

Karen Joy Fowler

There's science and there's science, is all I'm saying. Where humans are the subjects, it's mostly not science

Joseph Conrad

The vilest scramble for loot that ever disfigured the history of human conscience.

Laurell K. Hamilton

He's no more human than I am, ma petite." At least I'm not dead." That can be remedied.

John Keats

Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.

Liu Xiaobo

I have viewed the West as if it were not only the salvation of China but also the natural and ultimate destination of all humanity.

Loren Eiseley

It was the failures who had always won, but by the time they won they had come to be called successes.

Mahatma Gandhi

My patriotism is not an exclusive thing. It is all embracing. The conception of my patriotism is nothing if it is not always, in every case, without exception, consistent with the broadest good of humanity at large.

Mahatma Gandhi

Every murder or other injury, no matter for what cause, committed or inflicted on another is a crime against humanity.

Gaby Hoffmann

I'm interested in acting because I'm interested in exploring humanity, and we're all nuts, we're all damaged, and we're all gorgeous, so anything less than that is dishonest to me.

Friedensreich Hundertwasser

The straight line leads to the downfall of humanity.

Freida Pinto

I'm a human being before anything else.

Julian Simon

Human beings create more than they destroy.

Jules Renard

The less I understand life, the more I live it!

Juan Manuel Santos

The notion that you do not negotiate with terrorists is not the history of humanity or of the world.