Famous Quotes & Sayings

Simon Doonan

Dressing down is a crime against humanity.

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.

Robert A. Heinlein

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

Tommy Douglas

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

Tom Morello

Poverty is curable, but it's just not done, because it's not profitable. And that is the kind of violence that's perpetuated on humanity.

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.

The right of an individual to refuse to kill, to torture, or to participate in the preparation for the nuclear destruction of humanity seems to me to be fundamental.

Lewis Mumford

The humanities and science are not in inherent conflict but have become separated in the twentieth century. Now their essential unity must be re-emphasized, so that twentieth-century multiplicity may become twentieth-century unity.

Lewis Thomas

Our behavior toward each other is the strangest, most unpredictable, and most unaccountable of all the phenomena with which we are obliged to live. In all of nature, there is nothing so threatening to humanity as humanity itself.

Terry Pratchett

There can be no better grounding for a lifetime as an author than to see humanity in all its various guises through the lens of the reporter for the town.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

John Locke

What humanity abhors, custom reconciles and recommends to us.

Rabindranath Tagore

No civilized society can thrive upon victims, whose humanity has been permanently mutilated.

Joss Whedon

Because it’s no longer enough to be a decent person. It’s no longer enough to shake our heads and make concerned grimaces at the news. True enlightened activism is the only thing that can save humanity from itself.

Peace Pilgrim

Walk with me, but don't follow me blindly. Hold fast to the truth, not to my garments. My body is merely a clay structure; today it is here, tomorrow it shall be gone. If you attach yourself to me today, what are you going to do tomorrow when I am not with you? Attach yourself to God, attach yourself to humanity, only then will you be closer to me.

Peter Ustinov

Life was cheap in the Middle Ages. It has become cheaper since. It is only in specific battles for specific lives that our culture is put to the test, and with it our humanity.

Randy Schekman

I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.