Famous Quotes & Sayings

Melinda Gates

Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.

Michael McClure

We are the hurdles we leap to be ourselves.

Michael Dowd

Ecology is the new theology; big history is the new Genesis. Those who fail to understand that evidence is modern-day scripture, and that the world we live in is an honorable world, betray God and humanity in the most egregious of ways.

Ravi Zacharias

When I do things my way, I exhaust pleasure very quickly. It is not that Christianity has failed to teach me how to delight in God's presence; it is that I have failed by seeking pleasure through godless ways or by resisting God's provision for me because it is not what I want.

Eric Hoffer

Language was invented to ask questions.

James F. Cooper

We are all human, and all do wrong.

Jacque Fresco

The Venus Project presents a bold, new direction for humanity that entails nothing less than the total redesign of our culture.

Helen Fisher

The brain was not built to walk into a bar, where you know nobody, and start a conversation. That's not the way humanity has courted.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

I can see as clear as a daylight that the hour is coming when women will lead humanity to a higher evolution.

Henry George

God showers upon us his gifts-more than enough for all; But like swine scrambling for food, we tread them in the mire, and rend each other.

Henry Cantwell Wallace

To destroy a standing crop goes against the soundest instincts of human nature.

Henry David Thoreau

If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.

Paddy Chayefsky

I'm a human being, god-dammit. My life has value!

Plato

Many are the thyrsus-bearers, but few are the mystics.

Philip Zimbardo

Mama, humanity is my business.

Paulo Freire

No one can be authentically human while he prevents others from being so.

Lee Atwater

My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and probably never would have. So, from that standpoint, there is some truth and good in everything.

Laini Taylor

Humanity, perhaps, that quality of benevolence that humans have, without irony, named after themselves.

Lisa Kristine

I see myself as a witness to humanity.

John Stuart Mill

All the good of which humanity is capable is comprised in obedience.

James Jeans

Humanity is at the very beginning of its existence-a new-born babe, with all the unexplored potentialities of babyhood; and until the last few moments its interest has been centred, absolutely and exclusively, on its cradle and feeding bottle.

James Joyce

But we are living in a skeptical and, if I may use the phrase, a thought-tormented age; and sometimes I fear that this new generation, educated or hypereducated as it is, will lack those qualities of humanity, of hospitality, of kindly humor which belonged to an older day..

James Russell Lowell

The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accurst.

James Hansen

If humanity wishes to preserve a planet similar to that on which civilisation developed and to which life on Earth is adapted, paleoclimate evidence and ongoing climate change suggest that CO₂ will need to be reduced from its current 385 ppm [parts per million] to at most 350 ppm... If the present overshoot of this target CO₂ is not brief, there is a possibility of seeding irreversible catastrophic effects.

Laurence Sterne

Human nature is the same in all professions.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

Do we still have the right to be more than victims?

Friedrich Durrenmatt

The problems of all of humanity can only be solved by all of humanity

Friedrich Durrenmatt

There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Val- I’m on Bourbon– (Acheron) I will not venture down that street of crass iniquities and plebeian horror, Acheron. It is the cesspit of humanity. (Valerius)

Noomi Rapace

I want to explore more sides of humanity and myself. That's what acting is about.

Nikola Tesla

If the genius of invention were to reveal to-morrow the secret of immortality, of eternal beauty and youth, for which all humanity is aching, the same inexorable agents which prevent a mass from changing suddenly its velocity would likewise resist the force of the new knowledge until time gradually modifies human thought.

N. T. Wright

All history involves selection, and it is always human beings who do the selecting.

George Bernard Shaw

You will never have a quiet world until you knock the patriotism out of the human race.