Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Hazlitt

Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.

Walter Rauschenbusch

History is never antiquated, because humanity is always fundamentally the same.

Walden Bello

However it is achieved, a thorough reorganisation of production, consumption and distribution will be the end result of humanity's response to the climate emergency and the broader environmental crisis.

Willa Cather

Wherever humanity has made that hardest of all starts and lifted itself out of mere brutality is a sacred spot.

William Blackstone

Mankind will not be reasoned out of the feelings of humanity.

Wayne Shorter

Your humanity is your instrument.

Wayne Rooney

I'm only a human being.

Samuel Richardson

Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.

Samuel Hahnemann

I do not know if I am mistaken, but it seems that one can obtain more truths, important to Humanity, from Chemistry than from any other Science.

Samuel Beckett

Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.

Wesley Morris

I'm a human who is aware of the history of humanity and the ways in which the movies touch on those things.

Joss Whedon

The more power that we have, the less human we are.

Joss Whedon

Because it’s no longer enough to be a decent person. It’s no longer enough to shake our heads and make concerned grimaces at the news. True enlightened activism is the only thing that can save humanity from itself.

Kendrick Lamar

You really can't categorize my music, it's human music.

Ramana Maharshi

Peace is the inner nature of humankind. If you find it within yourself, you will then find it everywhere.

Ralph Fiennes

There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.

Lenny Kravitz

I'm very much about the environment, I'm very much about health, about being able to, at the very least, eat organic, whole foods that are healthy for us. And then, of course, everyone being able to eat and at least have a humane way to live. There's enough for everybody, but unfortunately, there's a lot of greed and a lot of ego.

Terry Pratchett

Seeing things a human shouldn't have to see makes us human.

Terry Pratchett

There can be no better grounding for a lifetime as an author than to see humanity in all its various guises through the lens of the reporter for the town.

Terry Eagleton

There seems to be something in humanity which will not bow meekly to the insolence of power.

Terry Eagleton

Those who sentimentally indulge humanity do it no favours.

Tennessee Williams

Nothing human disgusts me unless it's unkind.

The right of an individual to refuse to kill, to torture, or to participate in the preparation for the nuclear destruction of humanity seems to me to be fundamental.

Li Hongzhi

Anything that seriously disturbs human society is absolutely not allowed to exist.

Lewis Mumford

The humanities and science are not in inherent conflict but have become separated in the twentieth century. Now their essential unity must be re-emphasized, so that twentieth-century multiplicity may become twentieth-century unity.

Lewis Thomas

Our behavior toward each other is the strangest, most unpredictable, and most unaccountable of all the phenomena with which we are obliged to live. In all of nature, there is nothing so threatening to humanity as humanity itself.

Marcus Aurelius

A rational nature admits of nothing but what is serviceable to the rest of mankind.

Sandra Cisneros

But I deal with this by meditating and by understanding I've been put on the planet to serve humanity. I have to remind myself to live simply and not overindulge, which is a constant battle in a material world.

Samuel Johnson

The most useful truths are always universal, and unconnected with accidents and customs.

Samuel Johnson

We are all prompted by the same motives, all deceived by the same fallacies, all animated by hope, obstructed by danger, entangled by desire, and seduced by pleasure.

Rowan Williams

The planet should not be used as a warehouse of resources to serve humanity's selfishness

Robert Owen

The lowest stage of humanity is experienced when the individual must labour for a small pittance of wages from others.

Tom Morello

Poverty is curable, but it's just not done, because it's not profitable. And that is the kind of violence that's perpetuated on humanity.