Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Zosia Mamet

I am a private human.

William Graham Sumner

It generally troubles them [the reformers] not a whit that their remedy implies a complete reconstruction of society, or even a reconstitution of human nature.

William Levy

Whether I'm single or in a relationship, I'm the same person. The same human being.

Walter Savage Landor

There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

Walter Gilbert

Here is a human being; it's me!

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.

Rick Yancey

How do you rid the Earth of humans? Rid the humans of their humanity.

Vince Staples

That's something that I've always gotten: a sense of humanity, a sense of awareness of yourself and the world around you.

Sandra Cisneros

But I deal with this by meditating and by understanding I've been put on the planet to serve humanity. I have to remind myself to live simply and not overindulge, which is a constant battle in a material world.

Samuel Johnson

The most useful truths are always universal, and unconnected with accidents and customs.

Samuel Johnson

We are all prompted by the same motives, all deceived by the same fallacies, all animated by hope, obstructed by danger, entangled by desire, and seduced by pleasure.

Rowan Williams

The planet should not be used as a warehouse of resources to serve humanity's selfishness

William Hazlitt

Humanity is to be met with in a den of robbers.

William Hazlitt

Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.

Walter Rauschenbusch

History is never antiquated, because humanity is always fundamentally the same.

Walden Bello

However it is achieved, a thorough reorganisation of production, consumption and distribution will be the end result of humanity's response to the climate emergency and the broader environmental crisis.

William Osler

Start at once a bedside library and spend the last half hour of the day in communion with the saints of humanity.

William Osler

Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.