Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joseph Stiglitz

The notion that every well educated person would have a mastery of at least the basic elements of the humanities, sciences, and social sciences is a far cry from the specialized education that most students today receive, particularly in the research universities.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

The need to raise itself above humanity is humanity's main characteristic.

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.

Olive Schreiner

Slavery may, perhaps, be best compared to the infantile disease of measles; a complaint which so commonly attacks the young of humanity in their infancy, and when gone through at that period leaves behind it so few fatal marks; but which when it normally attacks the fully developed adult becomes one of the most virulent and toxic of diseases, often permanently poisoning the constitution where it does not end in death.

Octave Mirbeau

Wherever he goes, whatever he does, he will always see that word: murder—immortally inscribed upon the pediment of that vast slaughterhouse—humanity.

Novalis

Humanity is a comic role.

Emile M. Cioran

Humanity adores only those who cause it to perish.

Ellen Glasgow

I don't like human nature, but I do like human beings.

Eric Schmidt

The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.

Ella Maillart

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

Karen Armstrong

I'm seeking to make sense of life, looking for its meaning and how we can have a better humanity.

Lionel Trilling

Everything which the economist takes from you in the way of life and humanity, he restores to you in the form of money and wealth.

Lion Feuchtwanger

What is a historian, anyway? It is someone who uses facts to record the development of humanity.

Jonathan Rosen

The things that make us human often make us ill.

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.

Pope John Paul II

None of us is alone in this world; each of us is a vital piece of the great mosaic of humanity as a whole.

Pope John Paul II

Violence is a crime against humanity, for it destroys the very fabric of society.

Philippe Starck

The more materiality there is, the less humanity there is

Pope Francis

Humanity needs to weep, and this is the time to weep,

Pope Francis

Human trafficking is an open wound on the body of contemporary society, a scourge upon the body of Christ...It is a crime against humanity.

Pope Francis

Migrants and refugees are not pawns on the chessboard of humanity

Pope Francis

Embrace with tender affection the whole of humanity, especially the poorest, the weakest, the least important...

Pope Francis

Humanity needs to see these gestures of peace and to hear words of hope and peace!

Pope Francis

I ask you to ensure that humanity is served by wealth, and not ruled by it.

Paulo Coelho

The story of one person is the story of all of humanity.

Simon Pegg

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