Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Jacque Fresco

The Venus Project presents a bold, new direction for humanity that entails nothing less than the total redesign of our culture.

Helen Fisher

The brain was not built to walk into a bar, where you know nobody, and start a conversation. That's not the way humanity has courted.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

I can see as clear as a daylight that the hour is coming when women will lead humanity to a higher evolution.

Henry George

God showers upon us his gifts-more than enough for all; But like swine scrambling for food, we tread them in the mire, and rend each other.

Henry Cantwell Wallace

To destroy a standing crop goes against the soundest instincts of human nature.

Henry David Thoreau

If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.

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.

Cynthia Ozick

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

Sathya Baba

The development of the society, the state and the nation is proportionate to the development of the Human

Eric Hoffer

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

Eric Hoffer

Language was invented to ask questions.

James F. Cooper

We are all human, and all do wrong.

Leslie Nielsen

You could respond to it on a very human basis.

We know that humans are influencing the climate. There's no question about that.

A perfect human being: Man in search of his ideal of perfection. Nothing less.

I think that's always very valuable: to keep the mind open to receiving all sorts of information, which can then be used in my work, but also just as a human being.

Peter Stormare

I have the luxury of being a little boy... To me, the most important thing in life is to be a human being. Second is acting.

Sebastian Junger

There are no journalistic ethics that transcend the value of human life. There are none. In a situation where you can save a human life, you must. There isn't any conflict in my mind.

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.

This is something that most humans can relate to -- think of how much time and money we spend on our looks and status long after we have established stable relationships.

Ella Maillart

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

Randy Schekman

I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.