Famous Quotes & Sayings

The justice system is a human system and it is fallible.

The ultimate test of whether you posses a sense of humor is your reaction when someone tells you you don't.

These are human beings, that's kind of a biologically indisputable fact. As a human family, we do a lot better when we don't permit one to be destroyed.

These are human beings; that's kind of a biologically indisputable fact.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Cynthia Ozick

All writing is presumption, of course, since no one knows what it is like to be another human being.

Sathya Baba

The development of the society, the state and the nation is proportionate to the development of the Human

Carolyn See

'A Long Way Gone' says something about human nature that we try, most of the time, to ignore.

Eric Hoffer

There is a guilty conscience behind every brazen word and act and behind every manifestation of self-righteousness.

Eric Hoffer

The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready is he to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause.

Eric Hoffer

There is no reason why humanity cannot be served equally by weighty and trivial motives.

Eric Hoffer

Excesses are essentially gestures. It is easy to be extremely cruel, magnanimous, humble or self-sacrificing when we see ourselves as actors in a performance.

Eric Hoffer

Humility is not renunciation of pride but the substitution of one pride for another.

Eric Hoffer

Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.

Eric Hoffer

Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.

Enoch Powell

A politician complaining about the media is like a sailor complaining about the sea.

James Balog

When I worked with wildlife a lot in the Eighties and Nineties, I learnt the meaning of patience. And when I worked with trees, I learned the meaning of humility.

James Balog

I have often thought that my work with wildlife taught me the meaning of patience, and my work with the big trees taught me the meaning of humility, and my work with the ice has taught me the meaning of mortality.

Napoleon Hill

The one and only thing over which you have complete and total control is how you focus your own mind. Luckily, this determines everything else.

Napoleon Bonaparte

This accession of territory affirms forever the power of the United States, and I have given England a maritime rival who sooner or later will humble her pride.

Og Mandino

It is those who concentrates on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality.

Norman Rockwell

If there was sadness in this creative world of mine, it was a pleasant sadness. If there were problems, they were humorous problems.

Norman Mailer

I don't trust a man who uses the word evil eighteen times in ten minutes. If you're half evil, nothing soothes you more than to think the person you are opposed to is totally evil.

Norman Lear

But it also became the experience, or was the experience, of the writers who were attracted to this kind of humor. They're all men or women who come from the same kind of experience in their own lives.

Os Guinness

We human beings are never happier than when we are expressing the deepest gifts that are truly us.

Orison Swett Marden

It is the youth who sees a great opportunity hidden in just these simple services, who sees a very uncommon situation, a humble position, who gets on in the world.

Orison Swett Marden

The sculptor will chip off all unnecessary material to set free the angel. Nature will chip and pound us remorselessly to bring out our possibilities. She will strip us of wealth, humble our pride, humiliate our ambition, let us down from the ladder of fame, will discipline us in a thousand ways, if she can develop a little character. Everything must give way to that. Wealth is nothing, position is nothing, fame is nothing, manhood is everything.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.

Olive Schreiner

Slavery may, perhaps, be best compared to the infantile disease of measles; a complaint which so commonly attacks the young of humanity in their infancy, and when gone through at that period leaves behind it so few fatal marks; but which when it normally attacks the fully developed adult becomes one of the most virulent and toxic of diseases, often permanently poisoning the constitution where it does not end in death.

Octave Mirbeau

Wherever he goes, whatever he does, he will always see that word: murder—immortally inscribed upon the pediment of that vast slaughterhouse—humanity.

Novalis

Humanity is a comic role.

Norman Vincent Peale

The greatest secret for eliminating the infirmity complex, which is another term for deep and profound self-doubt, is to fill your mind to overflowing faith. Develop a tremendous faith in God and that will give you a humble yet soundly realistic faith in yourself.

Norman Vincent Peale

Develop a tremendous faith in God and that will give you a humble yet soundly realistic faith in yourself.