Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hugo Ball

No such thing as humanity without flaws.

Hosea Ballou

Humanity , in the aggregate, is progressing, and philanthropy looks forward hopefully.

Gillian Flynn

The truly frightening flaw in humanity is our capacity for cruelty - we all have it.

Gianfranco Fini

Communism has been the greatest and bloodiest illusion that humanity ever bore

William Hazlitt

Genius, like humanity, rusts for the want of use

George Bernard Shaw

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

Gary Larson

I never liked my own species.

Freeman Dyson

Humanity looks to me like a magnificent beginning but not the final word.

Fred Brooks

Software work is the most complex that humanity has ever undertaken.

To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.

Of course, we are all egoists. Egoism is so much a part of our humanity.

George W. Bush

Liberty is the right and hope of all humanity.

George W. Bush

Freedom is not our gift to the world it is God's gift to humanity.

George Carlin

I went straight from shenanigans to crimes against humanity.

Frank Spotnitz

Usually monsters are some aspect of human behavior or humanity at large.

Fernando Pessoa

I belong to a generation - assuming that this generation includes others besides me - that lost its faith in the gods of the old religions as well as in the gods of modern nonreligions. I reject Jehova as I reject humanity.

Francis Parker Yockey

The State becomes society or humanity on the ethical side, a production and trade system on the economic side

Francis Parkman

Humanity, morality, decency, might be forgotten, but codfish must still be had for the use of the faithful in Lent and on fast days.

Francis Bacon

I would like, in my arbitrary way, to bring one nearer to the actual human being.

Francis Bacon

Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.

Erwin McManus

Religion as a whole specializes in sin management. It's all about organizing humanity in such a way that we cause as little damage as possible.

Henri Bergson

Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Human faces are such a world!

Henri Frederic Amiel

The immense majority of our species are candidates for humanity, and nothing more.

Helen Keller

Poverty is the fundamental cause of most of the physical, moral and economic ills of humanity.

Ernest Dimnet

Every now and then we discover in the seething mass of humanity round us a person who does not seem to need anybody else, and the contrast with ourselves is stinging.

Frank Herbert

The best contribution one can make to humanity is to improve oneself.

Carla Gugino

One of the most important things for an actor is to observe humanity.

Buzz Aldrin

There are a lot of reasons for not doing something. And if humanity had come up with all the reasons for not doing something we wouldn't have spread across the Earth the way we have. There's a curiosity, and I would submit that that curiosity will put human beings on the surface of Mars.

Myles Munroe

Every human being was born with an inherent gift, and that gift is their gift to humanity; they are supposed to serve humanity in the area of their gifting.

Katherine Paterson

Words are humanity's greatest natural resource, but most of us have trouble figuring out how to put them together. Words aren't cheap. They are very precious.

Julia Stiles

I was happy when I read the script [The Bourne Ultimatum ] - the first version they sent me - to see that before, there's some humanity too.

Kim Harrison

that was humanity's problem right there. they are brain damaged from the early sun