Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lee Kuan Yew

I have always thought that humanity was animal-like. The Confucian theory was man could be improved, but I'm not sure he can be. He can be trained; he can be disciplined.

Blaise Pascal

Lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity.

Blaise Pascal

To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity.

Dean Koontz

You know what's wrong with humanity?... The greatest gift we were given is our free will, and we keep misusing it.

Dean Koontz

Humanity is a parade of fools, and I am at the front of it, twirling a baton.

Dean Koontz

The most identifying trait of humanity is our abilty to be inhumane to one another.

Daniel H. Wilson

...humanity learns true lessons only in cataclysm.

Coco Chanel

One should refrain from contempt for the baser specimens of humanity, for whom liberation amounts to shaving the heads of women who have slept with Germans.

Ashley Montagu

By virtue of being born to humanity, every human being has a right to the development and fulfillment of his potentialities as a human being.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I fear that if the matter is beyond humanity, it is certainly beyond me.

Anthony Shadid

In any kind of conflict, you have a certain dehumanization that comes along with it. And it's important as a reporter, a writer, a journalist, to try to restore humanity.

The Bahá´í Faith is consolation for humanity.

Auguste Comte

Humanity is always made up of more dead than living.

Arthur Miller

Today, [theatre's] more likely to be consciously not aimed at the public, but at a more sophisticated or educated public. . . . The result is that some of the sheer humanity has leaked out of the enterprise.

Charles Bukowski

Humanity, you never had it from the beginning." That was my motto.

Charles Bukowski

Humanity, you never had it to begin with.

Charles Bukowski

If I bet on humanity, I'd never cash a ticket.

Deepak Chopra

If you are not astonished that you exist, your humanity is not complete.

Adolf Hitler

The task of preserving and advancing the highest humanity, given to this earth by the benevolence of the Almighty, seems a truly high mission.

Annalee Newitz

I try to be realistic and pragmatic. I have a lot of hope for humanity as a species, but obviously as individuals we can be extremely flawed. We may have to go through some very terrible times in the near future, even if we ultimately survive as Homo sapiens.

Amy Lowell

Poetry, far more than fiction, reveals the soul of humanity.

Ann Landers

No one has the right to destroy another person's belief by demanding empirical evidence.

Adam Hochschild

All of us living in today's world are facing an enormous crisis - arguably the greatest that humanity has ever faced - in the form of man-made global warming; one can't be neutral at such a moment. It's like claiming to be neutral if you're living in Germany in 1933.

Achim Steiner

The way humanity manages or mismanages its nature-based assets, including pollinators, will in part define our collective future in the 21st century,

Aleister Crowley

All phenomena of which we are aware take place in our own minds, and therefore the only thing we have to look at is the mind; which is a more constant quantity over all the species of humanity than is generally supposed.

Alfred North Whitehead

Human nature loses its most precious quality when it is robbed of its sense of things beyond, unexplored and yet insistent.

Albert Einstein

Without "ethical culture", there is no salvation for humanity.

Aberjhani

Nation-building is never a 'done deal' confined to history already established.

Abbas Kiarostami

A movie is about human beings, about humanity.

Vanna Bonta

Poets can't worry about popularity since loving humanity involves saying what some people don't want to hear.

Sathya Baba

My task is the spiritual regeneration of Humanity through Truth and Love.

I have been incredibly impressed by the humanity of the coverage.

Bryant H. McGill

Humanity needs heroic leadership from those who see all life as precious.