Famous Quotes & Sayings

Don DeLillo

Bloomberg weighed three hundred pounds. This itself was historical. I revered his weight. It was an affirmation of humanity's reckless potential; it went beyond legend and returned through mist to the lovely folly of history. To weigh three hundred pounds. What devout vulgarity.

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.

Abbas Kiarostami

A movie is about human beings, about humanity.

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.

Aberjhani

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

Daniel Quinn

The world is not going to survive very much longer as humanity's captive.

Douglas Coupland

Every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking up at least 70 percent of his or her radar.

Douglas Coupland

What surprises me about humanity is that in the end such a narrow range of plights defines our moral lives.

Donald Trump

We have done a tremendous disservice, not only to Middle East, we've done a tremendous disservice to humanity.

Daniel Day-Lewis

It's easy to love humanity when you're this far away from it.

Coretta Scott King

Violence diminishes our humanity.

Confucius

Wisdom, humanity & courage, these three are universal virtues. The way by which they are practiced are one.

Confucius

Benevolence is the characteristic element of humanity.

Dana Snyder

My primary interest has always been about exploring the human psyche and humanity.

Dallas Willard

And the God who hears is also the one who speaks. He has spoken and is still speaking. Humanity remains his project, not its own, and his initiatives are always at work among us.

David Gemmell

If there is one sound the follows the march of humanity, it is the scream.

David Baldacci

Human beings are infinitely fallible, completely unreliable. Science is not. Science is absolute. Under strict principles, if you do A and B, then C will occur. This rarely happens if you inject the inefficiences of humanity into the process.

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.

Dag Hammarskjold

The UN wasn't created to take mankind into paradise, but rather, to save humanity from hell.

Clifford Geertz

One of the most significant facts about humanity may finally be that we all begin with the natural equipment to a live a thousand kinds of life but end in the end having lived only one

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.

David Attenborough

Climate change will affect the whole of humanity, while terrorist attacks will only affect a small section of humanity. Of course, you wouldn't say that if you were related to someone who had been beheaded or blown up or murdered.