Famous Quotes & Sayings

Atharva Veda

Humanity is in spiritual ignorance; people see things that do not exist.

Richard Paul Evans

Humanity is always looking for the next great world, the next frontier. I wonder how different this world would be if we were content with where we were.

Russell Brand

Our social and economic systems are so devoid of humanity and love.

Trip Hawkins

[PlayStation 2] is a new canvas for humanity that takes us back to our nature.

Sarah Kane

Once you have perceived that life is very cruel, the only response is to live with as much humanity, humour and freedom as you can.

Robert Owen

The lowest stage of humanity is experienced when the individual must labour for a small pittance of wages from others.

Saint Basil

If everyone would take only according to his needs and would leave the surplus to the needy, no one would be rich, no one poor, no one in misery.

Yanni

Everything great that has ever happened to humanity has begun as a single thought in someone's mind, and if anyone of us is capable of such a thought, then all of us has the same capacity, capability, because we're all the same.

Wole Soyinka

We live in a materialist world, and materialism appeals so strongly to humanity, no matter where.

Karl Marx

We will hang the capitalists with the rope that they sell us.

Linda Lingle

They really put up with a lot and I think they're just at the end of their rope right now,

Edna St. Vincent Millay

When I can make Of ten small words a rope to hang the world! "I had you and I have you now no more.

Aimee Bender

My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside. Amen." — Aimee Bender (Willful Creatures: Stories)

Miley Cyrus

Making a film is like learning the ropes all over again.

Tim Finn

Weave me a rope that will pull me through these impossible times.

Thomas Guthrie

Scatter money in a crowd, how they scramble for it; offer bread to the starving, how greedily they seize it; throw a rope to the drowning, how he eagerly grasps it! With like eagerness and earnestness may the Spirit of God help you to lay hold on Christ.

Victor Hugo

Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibres.

Isaac Asimov

The whole business is the crudest sort of stratagem, since we have no way of foreseeing it to the end. It is a mere paying out of rope on the chance that somewhere along the length of it will be a noose.

Marquis de Sade

The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Joshua Reynolds

I have heard painters acknowledge, though in that acknowledgment no degradation of themselves was intended, that they could do better without nature than with her; or as they express themselves, 'that it only put them out.

Charlotte Bronte

Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation.

T. S. Eliot

Gradually we come to admit that Shakespeare understands a greater extent and variety of human life than Dante; but that Dante understands deeper degrees of degradation and higher degrees of exaltation.

Suzy Kassem

You cannot change someone using fear, degradation, humiliation, or by comparing them to others. It can only be done through love, with love, for love. Love.

George Stevens

The audience too should be respected by being presented with a film as they remember it, and for those who have not seen it, as it was intended to be seen. Anything less is a degradation of the film and its audience.

George Bernard Shaw

Poverty does not produce unhappiness: It produces degradation.

Fulton J. Sheen

To love what is below the human is degradation; to love what is human for the sake of the human is mediocrity; to love the human for the sake of the Divine is enriching; to love the Divine for its own sake is sanctity.