Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

Juan Manuel Santos

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

Joshua Lederberg

I did get a very fine education, and not just in science. It took some pressure on the part of my elders to convince me that I really should take an interest in humanities.

Karl Barth

Humanity in its basic form is co-humanity.

Oscar Wilde

It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.

Kanye West

The dinosaurs are remember only by their bones. What will we be remembered for with humanity?

When I meet a new person, I am on the lookout for signs of what he or she is loyal to. It is a preliminary clue to the sense of belonging, and hence of his or her humanity.

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.

Taylor Caldwell

Even the most malignant gods would not continue to inflict life upon humanity, time without end.

Edward Burnett Tylor

Animism characterizes tribes very low in the scale of humanity, and thence ascends, deeply modified in its transmission, but from first to last preserving an unbroken continuity, into the midst of high modern culture.

Edward Bond

Humanity's become a product and when humanity is a product, you get Auschwitz and you get Chair.

Eckhart Tolle

Humanity as a species must change dramatically and radically or our survival is at stake...

Eckhart Tolle

Humanity had to go through egoic madness and then outgrow it.

Jon Miller

Business is about profit, yes, and it is about more than profit. At its best, it is about expanding the possibilities of humanity.

Richelle Mead

That's what humanity is: a series of successes and failures, a testing of one's own nature and aptitude. Neither the body nor the soul can sustain such a state. Eventually it consumes a person

Rebecca West

Humanity is never more sphinxlike than when it is expressing itself.

Russell Brand

Our social and economic systems are so devoid of humanity and love.

Ruben Santiago-Hudson

I don't have to research humanity, I just have to be courageous enough to share that part of myself with everybody.

Trip Hawkins

[PlayStation 2] is a new canvas for humanity that takes us back to our nature.

Rick Steves

As a traveler, I've often found that the more a culture differs from my own, the more I am struck by its essential humanity.

Rick Yancey

How do you rid the Earth of humans? Rid the humans of their humanity.

Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment

Patton Oswalt

I remember, when 9/11 went down, my reaction was, 'Well, I've had it with humanity.' But I was wrong.

Paul Tudor Jones

We have ripped the humanity out of our companies. It's threatening the very underpinnings of our society.

Martin Buber

Human life and humanity come into being in genuine encounters. The hope for this hour depends upon the renewal of the immediacy of dialogue among human beings.

Pope Benedict XVI

The goods of creation belong to humanity as a whole. Yet the current pace of environmental exploitation is seriously endangering the supply of certain natural resources not only for the present generation, but above all for generations to come.