Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Rick Steves

As a traveler, I've often found that the more a culture differs from my own, the more I am struck by its essential humanity.

Neale Donald Walsch

The difficulty with humanity's previous attempts at reinventing itself is that we've always started with behaviors rather than with beliefs.

Nate Berkus

One of the biggest lessons I've learned during my time on 'Oprah' is that everyone wants to be heard. We all want to have our humanity acknowledged - to have others see us for who we truly are. We all want to know that we are valued, we are heard, we are understood.

Joseph Addison

There is no society or conversation to be kept up in the world without good-nature, or something which must bear its appearance and supply its place. For this reason mankind have been forced to invent a kind of artificial humanity, which is what we express by the word Good-Breeding.

Joseph Addison

Dependence is a perpetual call upon humanity, and a greater incitement to tenderness and pity than any other motive whatever.

Jose Saramago

There are those who deny me the right to speak of God, because I am not a believer. And I say that I have every right in the world. I want to talk about God because it is a problem that affects all humanity.

Jonathan Rosen

The things that make us human often make us ill.

Jacque Fresco

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

Sarah Vowell

You know you've reached a new plateau of group mediocrity when even a Canadian is alarmed by your lack of individuality.

Rudolf Steiner

We differ from one another in our individual gifts which, however, belong to our inner nature.

Walt Disney

I wanted to retain my individuality. I was afraid of being hampered by studio policies. I knew if someone else got control, I would be restrained.

Walt Whitman

The eager and often inconsiderate appeals of reformers and revolutionists are indispensable to counterbalance the inertia and fossilism marking so large a part of human institutions.

Johannes Stark

Moreover, the abundance of chemical compounds and their importance in daily life hindered the chemist from investigating the question, in what does the individuality of the atoms of different elements consist.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our expenses are all for conformity.

Lascelles Abercrombie

The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Eternal life and the invisible world are only to be sought in God. Only within Him do all spirits dwell. He is an abyss of individuality, the only infinite plenitude.

Mahatma Gandhi

It is beneath human dignity to lose one's individuality and become a mere cog in the machine.

Jim Glassman

He does speak more like a professor. He's a straight shooter.

William Morris

Speak but one word to me.

Sarah Palin

Stand up, speak out, and be bold. Screw political correctness. Never let them tell you to sit down and shut up.

Sandra Cisneros

Don't be afraid to say what you don't know, and speak for what you do know. Say, "I can't speak for all Latinas, but I can speak for me and tell you very, very honestly."

Milan Kundera

Speak truth to power.

Jose Maria Aznar

Speak less but act more.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

What you are speaks louder than what you say.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

You can't hear God speak to someone else, you can hear him only when you are being addressed.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

About what one can not speak, one must remain silent.