Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sam Harris

The second commandment is "Thou shall not construct any graven images." Is this really the pinnacle of what we can achieve morally? The second most important moral principle for all the generations of humanity?

Russell Simmons

At the core of everything that is hurtful to humanity is a lack of consciousness.

Ronald Reagan

This crime against humanity must never be forgotten.

Rumi

The whole universe is contained within a single human being - you.

Susan Cain

I'm insatiably curious about human nature.

Swami Vivekananda

I am in every religion as the thread through a string of pearls. Wherever thou seest extraordinary holiness and extraordinary power raising and purifying humanity, know thou that I am there.

Simone de Beauvoir

The Communists , following Hegel , speak of humanity and its future as of some monolithic individuality. I was attacking this illusion.

Simon Pegg

Bill Hicks wasn't just a comic, he was a crusader against humanity's relentless capacity to underachieve

Simon Doonan

Dressing down is a crime against humanity.

Thomas Merton

It is my belief, that we should not be too sure of having found Christ in ourselves until we have found him also in that part of humanity that is most remote from our own.

Thomas Carlyle

I have no patience whatever with these gorilla damnifications of humanity.

Steve Buscemi

I can't relate to 99% of humanity.

Stephen Hawking

We explore because we are human.

Stanley Crouch

Our democratic richness arrives when we're able to comprehend our collective humanity accurately.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's; and unto human beings, what?

Silvio Berlusconi

These monstrous criminals have demonstrated a vile and brutal affront against humanity.

Sigmund Freud

Religion [is] the universal obsessional neurosis of humanity

Sigmund Freud

Humanity is in the highest degree irrational, so that there is no prospect of influencing it by reasonable arguments. Against prejudice one can do nothing.

Shirley Hufstedler

I empathize with those who yearn for a simpler world, for some bygone golden age of domestic and international tranquility. But for the mass of humanity it is an age that never was.

Serj Tankian

I really feel like civilisation's already over. It's not ending but it's already done. We're all addicted to the concept that humanity equals civilisation and that's not the case. We need a global conversation to be able to decipher how we can live from this point forward. We have to redefine our relationship with our environment.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Humanity always becomes a conqueror.

Timothy Radcliffe

The medieval Church believed that the resurrection of Christ marked a new time for all of humanity.

Thucydides

Human nature is the one constant through human history. It is always there.

Robert Agostinelli

I'm a big believer in human nature.

Robert A. Heinlein

Of all the creatures on this planet none is more dangerous than a human being.

Toni Morrison

Perhaps that's what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?

Tommy Douglas

The religion of tomorrow will be less concerned with the dogmas of theology and more concerned with the social welfare of humanity.

Thomas Keating

We need to develop the intuitive capacities of the brain that some geniuses have manifested over humanity's lengthy history.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Fact is stranger than fiction.

Victor Hugo

We are reassured almost as foolishly as we are alarmed; human nature is so constituted.

Vernor Vinge

The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.

Robert Fulghum

To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence, hollering, 'What's it for?'

Thomas More

It's wrong to deprive someone else of a pleasure so that you can enjoy one yourself, but to deprive yourself of a pleasure so that you can add to someone else's enjoyment is an act of humanity by which you always gain more than you lose.