Famous Quotes & Sayings

Desmond Tutu

All of our humanity is dependent upon recognizing the humanity in others

Anna Pavlova

It is by the steady elimination of everything which is ugly - thoughts and words no less than tangible objects - and by the substitution of things of true and lasting beauty that the whole progress of humanity proceeds.

Angela Carter

We must all make do with the rags of love we find flapping on the scarecrow of humanity.

Chuck Palahniuk

If You Don’t Claim Your Humanity, You Will Become A Statistic.

Christopher Morley

One of the penalties of being a human being is other human beings.

Andrew Carnegie

Humanities education is the worst thing for an industrialist.

Anne Rice

I never changed after that. I sought for nothing in the one great source of change which is humanity. And even in my love and absorption with the beauty of the world, I sought to learn nothing that could be given back to humanity. I drank of the beauty of the world as a vampire drinks. I was satisfied. I was filled to the brim. But I was dead. And I was changeless.

Andrew Sullivan

There is something about hearing your president affirm your humanity that you don't know what effect it has until you hear it.

Andre Malraux

Some pictures are in the gallery because they belong to humanity and others because they belong to the United States.

Ambrose Bierce

Inhumanity, n. One of the signal and characteristic qualities of humanity.

Anthony Kennedy

When a juvenile commits a heinous crime, the State can exact forfeiture of some of the most basic liberties, but the State cannot extinguish his life and his potential to attain a mature understanding of his own humanity.

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.

Aesop

A crust in comfort is better than a feast in fear.

Brian Eno

A culture is the sum of all the things about which humanity can choose to differ.

Eckhart Tolle

There's something in human beings, not all human beings, that is ready for the change in consciousness. It needs to happen now if humanity is not to destroy itself and the planet.

Eckhart Tolle

But there's a shift happening in humanity, a shift in consciousness, happening now because it has to happen now.

Elif Safak

A saint belongs to all humanity.

Elie Wiesel

Humanity? Humanity is not concerned with us. Today anything is allowed. Anything is possible.

Elie Wiesel

Humanity would never tolerate it

Edward Gibbon

History, in fact, is no more than a list of the crimes of humanity, human follies and accidents

Edward Gibbon

The peace of the Eastern church was invaded by a swarm of fanatics [monks], incapable of fear, or reason, or humanity; and the Imperial troops acknowledged, without shame, that they were much less apprehensive of an encounter with the fiercest Barbarians.

Edward Gibbon

Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity.

Edward Gibbon

If we are more affected by the ruin of a palace than by the conflagration of a cottage, our humanity must have formed a very erroneous estimate of the miseries of human life.

David Icke

A group of reptilian humanoids, called the Babylonian Brotherhood, control humanity.

Anything which is a huge problem for humanity we'll sign up for, if we can find a way to fix it.

Edmund Wilson

The Jew lends himself easily to Communism because it enables him to devote himself to a high cause, involving all of humanity, characteristics which are natural to him as a Jew.

Benjamin Franklin

A good spouse and health is a person's best wealth.

Ben Bernanke

Both humanity's capacity to innovate and the incentives to innovate are greater today than at any other time in history.

Austin Butler

When you're doing fantasy, you can get so caught up in the magic of it that you lose the humanity.

Ariel Pink

I love everybody. You have to embrace all facets of humanity; love and accept everyone as being part of yourself.

Arianna Huffington

What preoccupies us is the way we define success. If you see your life purely in terms of money and power, then everything in your life becomes about 'Am I getting ahead?' and that is truly a barbaric way to live, because it eliminates huge chunks of our humanity.