Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sigmund Freud

Humanity is in the highest degree irrational, so that there is no prospect of influencing it by reasonable arguments. Against prejudice one can do nothing.

Shirley Hufstedler

I empathize with those who yearn for a simpler world, for some bygone golden age of domestic and international tranquility. But for the mass of humanity it is an age that never was.

Serj Tankian

I really feel like civilisation's already over. It's not ending but it's already done. We're all addicted to the concept that humanity equals civilisation and that's not the case. We need a global conversation to be able to decipher how we can live from this point forward. We have to redefine our relationship with our environment.

Steven Pinker

Overcoming naive impressions to figure out how things really work is one of humanity's highest callings.

Steven Weinberg

Though aware that there is nothing in the universe that suggests any purpose for humanity, one way that we can find a purpose is to study the universe by the methods of science, without consoling ourselves with fairy tales about its future, or about our own.

Robert Burns

It is cruelty to be humane to rebels, and humanity is cruelty.

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.

Vince Staples

That's something that I've always gotten: a sense of humanity, a sense of awareness of yourself and the world around you.

Tariq Ramadan

Serve humanity, regardless of religion. Show solidarity for those suffering and oppressed.

Sophie Swetchine

Poor humanity!--so dependent, so insignificant, and yet so great.

Willa Cather

Wherever humanity has made that hardest of all starts and lifted itself out of mere brutality is a sacred spot.

William Blackstone

Mankind will not be reasoned out of the feelings of humanity.

Wayne Shorter

Your humanity is your instrument.

Samuel Hahnemann

I do not know if I am mistaken, but it seems that one can obtain more truths, important to Humanity, from Chemistry than from any other Science.

Samuel Beckett

Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.

Wesley Morris

I'm a human who is aware of the history of humanity and the ways in which the movies touch on those things.

William Cowper

I am out of humanity's reach.

Wayne Dyer

From a hologrammatic viewpoint, ...you are one little physical image that reflects all of humanity when projected spiritually upon the cosmic screen.

Walter Savage Landor

There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

William Wordsworth

Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue.

William McKinley

The American flag has not been planted on foreign soil to acquire more territory but for humanity's sake.

Saint Basil

If everyone would take only according to his needs and would leave the surplus to the needy, no one would be rich, no one poor, no one in misery.

Yanni

Everything great that has ever happened to humanity has begun as a single thought in someone's mind, and if anyone of us is capable of such a thought, then all of us has the same capacity, capability, because we're all the same.

Wole Soyinka

We live in a materialist world, and materialism appeals so strongly to humanity, no matter where.

William Hazlitt

Humanity is to be met with in a den of robbers.

William Hazlitt

Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.

Walter Rauschenbusch

History is never antiquated, because humanity is always fundamentally the same.

Walden Bello

However it is achieved, a thorough reorganisation of production, consumption and distribution will be the end result of humanity's response to the climate emergency and the broader environmental crisis.

William Osler

Start at once a bedside library and spend the last half hour of the day in communion with the saints of humanity.