Famous Quotes & Sayings

Humanity is in spiritual ignorance; people see things that do not exist.

Richard Paul Evans

Humanity is always looking for the next great world, the next frontier. I wonder how different this world would be if we were content with where we were.

Russell Brand

Our social and economic systems are so devoid of humanity and love.

Trip Hawkins

[PlayStation 2] is a new canvas for humanity that takes us back to our nature.

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.

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.

Walter Savage Landor

There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

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

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.

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.

Neale Donald Walsch

When even those who should be happy by any reasonable measure are also not happy, there's got to be a serious systemic problem in humanity's culture.

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.

Jose Padilha

RoboCop the first movie was fantastic. But even if there was no movie, the concept of RoboCop is brilliant, first because it lends itself to a lot of social criticism, but also because it poses a question, 'When do you lose your 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.

Helen Fisher

The brain was not built to walk into a bar, where you know nobody, and start a conversation. That's not the way humanity has courted.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

I can see as clear as a daylight that the hour is coming when women will lead humanity to a higher evolution.

Henry David Thoreau

If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.

Mahatma Gandhi

For us, patriotism is the same as the love of humanity.