Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Joseph Addison

Dependence is a perpetual call upon humanity, and a greater incitement to tenderness and pity than any other motive whatever.

Jose Saramago

There are those who deny me the right to speak of God, because I am not a believer. And I say that I have every right in the world. I want to talk about God because it is a problem that affects all humanity.

Jose Padilha

RoboCop the first movie was fantastic. But even if there was no movie, the concept of RoboCop is brilliant, first because it lends itself to a lot of social criticism, but also because it poses a question, 'When do you lose your humanity?

James McAvoy

For me, Charles Xavier is a monk. He's like a selfless, egoless almost sexless force for the betterment of humanity and mortality.

James Macdonald

The core of humanity's sin problem is not a horizontal behavior to be corrected but a Vertical relationship to be restored.

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.

Hjalmar Branting

A formally recognized equality does, however, accord the smaller nations a position which they should be able to use increasingly in the interest of humanity as a whole and in the service of the ideal

Heinrich Heine

Every age has its problem, by solving which humanity is helped forward.

Henry Ward Beecher

Human life is God's outer church. Its needs and urgencies are priests and pastors.

Henry Clay

Let him who elevates himself above humanity . . . say, if he pleases, "I will never compromise"; but let no one who is not above the frailties of our common nature disdain compromise.

Jonathan Rosen

The things that make us human often make us ill.

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.

Mason Cooley

Human nature is a scoundrel's favorite explanation.

Theodore Parker

Humanity is the sin of God

Mahatma Gandhi

For us, patriotism is the same as the love of humanity.

Mahatma Gandhi

Of all the black crimes that humanity is committing against the great Creation, vivisection is the blackest.

Mahatma Gandhi

If untouchability lives, humanity must die.

Mahatma Gandhi

India must learn to live before she can aspire to die for humanity.

Michael Pollan

Instead of eating exclusively from the sun, humanity now began to sip petroleum.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Humanity to me is not a mob. A mob is a degeneration of humanity. A mob is humanity going the wrong way.

Frank B. Kellogg

I share the opinion of those of broader vision, who see in the signs of the time hope of humanity for peace.

Lloyd Alexander

Story , finally, is humanity 's autobiography .

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.