Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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

Leslie Nielsen

You could respond to it on a very human basis.

Tim White

The key here is the sequences. It's about a mile thickness of rocks in the Middle Awash and in it we can see all three phases of human evolution.

Os Guinness

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

Ellen Glasgow

It is human nature to overestimate the thing you've never had.

It was a combination of technical and human intelligence that led us to him.

It will be cheaper, more humane and more efficient.

No matter what, in Iraq there's a baseline of humanity, humane treatment.

Kate Bernheimer

I think pink is one of the saddest colors in the world, and many American humans are taught not to take anything pink seriously, which is weird.

Where are these people going to be putting their human waste? Are these people self-sufficient?

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

We humans lack imagination, to the point of not even knowing what tomorrow's important things will look like.

It's the way the human brain works: when enough events occur in a pattern, we stop thinking and go into macro mode.

Niccolo Machiavelli

You do not know the unfathomable cowardice of humanity...servile in the face of force, pitiless in the face of weakness, implacable before blunders, indulgent before crimes...and patient to the point of martyrdom before all the violences of bold despotism.

Kylie Jenner

I still feel insecure all the time. I feel like it's just a part of being a human being... I just learned normal is very boring.

Kirsten Vangsness

I like writing about what to me are like questions that I have about myself and the human condition. I find quantum physics fascinating, so I like to write about that, and I like things that make me laugh.

John Burnside

Once upon a time, forests were repositories of magic for the human race.

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

Masanobu Fukuoka

The increasing desolation of nature, the exhaustion of resources, the uneasiness and disintegration of the human spirit, all have been brought about by humanity's trying to accomplish something.

Paul Harvey

Each generation imagines that we're all going to hell. Each generation goes through a little hell and comes out heat tempered and better than before.

Paul Hawken

It is critical to realize that underlying the extermination of nature is the marginalization of human beings. If we are to save what is wild, what is irreparable and majestic in nature, then we will ironically have to turn to each other and take care of all the human beings here on Earth. There is no boundary that will protect an environment from a suffering humanity.

Pat Conroy

Humanity is best described as inhumanity.

Myles Munroe

Every human being was born with an inherent gift, and that gift is their gift to humanity; they are supposed to serve humanity in the area of their gifting.

Katherine Paterson

Words are humanity's greatest natural resource, but most of us have trouble figuring out how to put them together. Words aren't cheap. They are very precious.

Julia Stiles

I was happy when I read the script [The Bourne Ultimatum ] - the first version they sent me - to see that before, there's some humanity too.

Kim Harrison

that was humanity's problem right there. they are brain damaged from the early sun

Mark Twain

It is your human environment that makes climate

Mark Twain

To eat is human, to digest, divine

Martin Heidegger

A person is neither a thing nor a process but an opening through which the Absolute can manifest.