Famous Quotes & Sayings

Maximilien Robespierre

To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty.

Maya Angelou

Be certain that you do not die without having done something wonderful for humanity.

Philip Zimbardo

Mama, humanity is my business.

Lee Atwater

My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and probably never would have. So, from that standpoint, there is some truth and good in everything.

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.

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.

Mason Cooley

Human nature is a scoundrel's favorite explanation.

Theodore Parker

Humanity is the sin of God

Margaret Mead

Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.

Marcus Garvey

There is no humanity before that which starts with yourself.

Melinda Gates

Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.

Michael McClure

We are the hurdles we leap to be ourselves.

Neale Donald Walsch

The difficulty with humanity's previous attempts at reinventing itself is that we've always started with behaviors rather than with beliefs.

Neale Donald Walsch

When even those who should be happy by any reasonable measure are also not happy, there's got to be a serious systemic problem in humanity's culture.

Nate Berkus

One of the biggest lessons I've learned during my time on 'Oprah' is that everyone wants to be heard. We all want to have our humanity acknowledged - to have others see us for who we truly are. We all want to know that we are valued, we are heard, we are understood.

Joseph Addison

There is no society or conversation to be kept up in the world without good-nature, or something which must bear its appearance and supply its place. For this reason mankind have been forced to invent a kind of artificial humanity, which is what we express by the word Good-Breeding.

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.

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

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 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.