Famous Quotes & Sayings

Christopher Flavin

Urgency and vision are the twin pillars on which humanity's hope now hangs.

George Washington Carver

I know that my Redeemer lives. Thank God I love humanity, complexion doesn't interest me one single a bit.

George Washington

Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

In abstract love of humanity one almost always only loves oneself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Christianity remains to this day the greatest misfortune of humanity.

Taylor Caldwell

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

Edward Burnett Tylor

Animism characterizes tribes very low in the scale of humanity, and thence ascends, deeply modified in its transmission, but from first to last preserving an unbroken continuity, into the midst of high modern culture.

Edward Bond

Humanity's become a product and when humanity is a product, you get Auschwitz and you get Chair.

Eckhart Tolle

Humanity as a species must change dramatically and radically or our survival is at stake...

Eckhart Tolle

Humanity had to go through egoic madness and then outgrow it.

Jon Miller

Business is about profit, yes, and it is about more than profit. At its best, it is about expanding the possibilities of humanity.

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.

Terry Eagleton

There seems to be something in humanity which will not bow meekly to the insolence of power.

Terry Eagleton

Those who sentimentally indulge humanity do it no favours.

Tennessee Williams

Nothing human disgusts me unless it's unkind.

Simone de Beauvoir

The Communists , following Hegel , speak of humanity and its future as of some monolithic individuality. I was attacking this illusion.

Simon Pegg

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

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.

Randy Schekman

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

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.

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.