Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

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.

Tariq Ramadan

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

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.

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.