Famous Quotes & Sayings

Taylor Caldwell

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

Ron Fournier

Climate change was a point of division between Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney. The president declared climate change a global threat, acknowledged that the actions of humanity were deepening the crisis, and pledged to do something about it if elected.

Vera Brittain

Few of humanity's characteristics are more disconcerting than its ability to reduce world-events to its own level, wherever this may happen to be.

Richard Dawkins

All life evolves by the differential survival of replicating entities.

Richard Dawkins

I am thrilled to be alive at time when humanity is pushing against the limits of understanding. Even better, we may eventually discover that there are no limits.

Richard Paul Evans

Humanity is always looking for the next great world, the next frontier. I wonder how different this world would be if we were content with where we were.

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.

Thomas More

It's wrong to deprive someone else of a pleasure so that you can enjoy one yourself, but to deprive yourself of a pleasure so that you can add to someone else's enjoyment is an act of humanity by which you always gain more than you lose.

Richard Leakey

It seems inconceivable that a species of human could possess fully modern language and not be fully modern in all other ways, too. For this reason, the evolution of language is widely judged to be the culminating event in the emergence of humanity as we know it today.

Thomas Merton

It is my belief, that we should not be too sure of having found Christ in ourselves until we have found him also in that part of humanity that is most remote from our own.

Thomas Carlyle

I have no patience whatever with these gorilla damnifications of humanity.

Thomas B. Macaulay

It is good to be often reminded of the inconsistency of human nature, and to learn to look without wonder or disgust on the weaknesses which are found in the strongest minds.

Tim Berners-Lee

I'm an optimist about humanity in general, I suppose.

Thomas Ligotti

To my mind, a well-developed sense of humor is the surest indication of a person's humanity, no matter how black and bitter that humor may be.

Thomas Keating

We need to develop the intuitive capacities of the brain that some geniuses have manifested over humanity's lengthy history.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Fact is stranger than fiction.

Vernor Vinge

The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.

Robert Fulghum

To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence, hollering, 'What's it for?'

Sarah Kane

Once you have perceived that life is very cruel, the only response is to live with as much humanity, humour and freedom as you can.

Sandra Postel

Reforesting the earth is possible, given a human touch.

Sandra Cisneros

But I deal with this by meditating and by understanding I've been put on the planet to serve humanity. I have to remind myself to live simply and not overindulge, which is a constant battle in a material world.

Samuel Johnson

The most useful truths are always universal, and unconnected with accidents and customs.

Samuel Johnson

We are all prompted by the same motives, all deceived by the same fallacies, all animated by hope, obstructed by danger, entangled by desire, and seduced by pleasure.

Rowan Williams

The planet should not be used as a warehouse of resources to serve humanity's selfishness

Robert Owen

The lowest stage of humanity is experienced when the individual must labour for a small pittance of wages from others.

Viktor E. Frankl

Now, it is my contention that the deneuroticization of humanity requires a rehumanization of psychotherapy.

Vaclav Havel

It seems to me that one of the most basic human experiences, one that is genuinely universal and unites-or, more precisely, could unite-all of humanity, is the experience of transcendence in the broadest sense of the word.

Susan Sullivan

To work on great material, what you really end up working on is yourself, your own humanity.

Steve Buscemi

I can't relate to 99% of humanity.

Stanley Crouch

Our democratic richness arrives when we're able to comprehend our collective humanity accurately.

Silvio Berlusconi

These monstrous criminals have demonstrated a vile and brutal affront against humanity.

Sigmund Freud

Religion [is] the universal obsessional neurosis of humanity