Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sylvia Earle

Humans have always wondered the big questions, "Who am I? Where have I come from? Where am I going?" It's part of human nature. It's perhaps the underpinnings of religion.

Randy Schekman

I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.

Swami Vivekananda

I am in every religion as the thread through a string of pearls. Wherever thou seest extraordinary holiness and extraordinary power raising and purifying humanity, know thou that I am there.

Simone de Beauvoir

The Communists , following Hegel , speak of humanity and its future as of some monolithic individuality. I was attacking this illusion.

Simon Pegg

Bill Hicks wasn't just a comic, he was a crusader against humanity's relentless capacity to underachieve

Simon Doonan

Dressing down is a crime against humanity.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Humanity always becomes a conqueror.

Timothy Radcliffe

The medieval Church believed that the resurrection of Christ marked a new time for all of humanity.

Thucydides

Human nature is the one constant through human history. It is always there.

Robert Agostinelli

I'm a big believer in human nature.

Robert A. Heinlein

Of all the creatures on this planet none is more dangerous than a human being.

Tommy Douglas

The religion of tomorrow will be less concerned with the dogmas of theology and more concerned with the social welfare of humanity.

Sophie Swetchine

Poor humanity!--so dependent, so insignificant, and yet so great.

Taylor Caldwell

Even the most malignant gods would not continue to inflict life upon humanity, time without end.

Taiye Selasi

How can I come from a nation? How can a human being come from a concept?

Ron Fournier

Climate change was a point of division between Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney. The president declared climate change a global threat, acknowledged that the actions of humanity were deepening the crisis, and pledged to do something about it if elected.

Stephen Hawking

We explore because we are human.

Stanley Crouch

Our democratic richness arrives when we're able to comprehend our collective humanity accurately.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's; and unto human beings, what?

Silvio Berlusconi

These monstrous criminals have demonstrated a vile and brutal affront against humanity.

Shirley Hufstedler

I empathize with those who yearn for a simpler world, for some bygone golden age of domestic and international tranquility. But for the mass of humanity it is an age that never was.

Steven Morrissey

I am attracted to humans. But, of course...not many.

Ricky Williams

Human beings aren't supposed to be controlled and told what to do.

Margaret Mead

Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.

Melinda Gates

Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.

Do not confuse your vested interests with ethics. Do not identify the enemies of your privilege with the enemies of humanity.

Maya Angelou

During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must not allow anything to reduce that. We are obliged to know we are global citizens. Disasters remind us we are world citizens, whether we like it or not.

Plato

Many are the thyrsus-bearers, but few are the mystics.

Paulo Freire

No one can be authentically human while he prevents others from being so.

Martin Luther

Your God is altogether too human.

Martin Luther

Your thoughts of God are too human

Marilyn French

Anyone determined to find another person or group inferior can always find whole lists of grounds that demonstrate inferiority because we are all inferior to the ideals of humanness we have erected.

Mencius

Human nature is disposed to do good.