Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Locke

What humanity abhors, custom reconciles and recommends to us.

Emanuel Swedenborg

Conscience is God's presence in humans.

Judith Martin

What restricts the use of the word 'lady' among the courteous is that it is intended to set a woman apart from ordinary humanity, and in the working world that is not a help, as women have discovered in many bitter ways.

Karen Armstrong

I'm seeking to make sense of life, looking for its meaning and how we can have a better humanity.

Karen Joy Fowler

There's science and there's science, is all I'm saying. Where humans are the subjects, it's mostly not science

Joseph Conrad

The vilest scramble for loot that ever disfigured the history of human conscience.

Laurell K. Hamilton

He's no more human than I am, ma petite." At least I'm not dead." That can be remedied.

John Keats

Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.

Liu Xiaobo

I have viewed the West as if it were not only the salvation of China but also the natural and ultimate destination of all humanity.

Loren Eiseley

It was the failures who had always won, but by the time they won they had come to be called successes.

Mahatma Gandhi

My patriotism is not an exclusive thing. It is all embracing. The conception of my patriotism is nothing if it is not always, in every case, without exception, consistent with the broadest good of humanity at large.

Mahatma Gandhi

Every murder or other injury, no matter for what cause, committed or inflicted on another is a crime against humanity.

Gaby Hoffmann

I'm interested in acting because I'm interested in exploring humanity, and we're all nuts, we're all damaged, and we're all gorgeous, so anything less than that is dishonest to me.

Friedensreich Hundertwasser

The straight line leads to the downfall of humanity.

Freida Pinto

I'm a human being before anything else.

Julian Simon

Human beings create more than they destroy.

Jules Renard

The less I understand life, the more I live it!

Juan Manuel Santos

The notion that you do not negotiate with terrorists is not the history of humanity or of the world.

Joshua Lederberg

I did get a very fine education, and not just in science. It took some pressure on the part of my elders to convince me that I really should take an interest in humanities.

Karl Barth

Humanity in its basic form is co-humanity.

Oscar Wilde

It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.

Kanye West

The dinosaurs are remember only by their bones. What will we be remembered for with humanity?

When I meet a new person, I am on the lookout for signs of what he or she is loyal to. It is a preliminary clue to the sense of belonging, and hence of his or her humanity.

Greg Behrendt

I'm fascinated with human relationships. I advocate the relationship you have with yourself.

Leslie Nielsen

You could respond to it on a very human basis.

Maximilien Robespierre

To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty.

Maya Angelou

Be certain that you do not die without having done something wonderful for humanity.

Max de Pree

Leadership is liberating people to do what is required of them in the most effective and humane way possible.

Kenny Anderson

When you reflect on Sept. 11 and the tragedy of that day, one of the things that came out of that was the goodness of humanity

Kailash Satyarthi

I am really honoured but if the prize had gone to Mahatma Gandhi before me I would have been more honoured

Kailash Satyarthi

If not now, then when? If not you, then who? If we are able to answer these fundamental questions, then perhaps we can wipe away the blot of human slavery

Jiddu Krishnamurti

But if you have no relationship with the living things on this earth, you may lose whatever relationship you have with humanity.

Jeremy Rifkin

What I'm suggesting to you is that this could be a renaissance. We may be on the cusp of a future which could provide a tremendous leap forward for humanity.