Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sigmund Freud

Religion [is] the universal obsessional neurosis of humanity

Sigmund Freud

Humanity is in the highest degree irrational, so that there is no prospect of influencing it by reasonable arguments. Against prejudice one can do nothing.

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.

Serj Tankian

I really feel like civilisation's already over. It's not ending but it's already done. We're all addicted to the concept that humanity equals civilisation and that's not the case. We need a global conversation to be able to decipher how we can live from this point forward. We have to redefine our relationship with our environment.

Steven Pinker

Overcoming naive impressions to figure out how things really work is one of humanity's highest callings.

Steven Weinberg

Though aware that there is nothing in the universe that suggests any purpose for humanity, one way that we can find a purpose is to study the universe by the methods of science, without consoling ourselves with fairy tales about its future, or about our own.

Robert Burns

It is cruelty to be humane to rebels, and humanity is cruelty.

Michael Dowd

Ecology is the new theology; big history is the new Genesis. Those who fail to understand that evidence is modern-day scripture, and that the world we live in is an honorable world, betray God and humanity in the most egregious of ways.

Ravi Zacharias

When I do things my way, I exhaust pleasure very quickly. It is not that Christianity has failed to teach me how to delight in God's presence; it is that I have failed by seeking pleasure through godless ways or by resisting God's provision for me because it is not what I want.

Michael Pollan

Instead of eating exclusively from the sun, humanity now began to sip petroleum.

Seth Godin

We don't need more stuff, we need more humanity.

Ravi Zacharias

The more we see the unconscionable ends to which the human spirit can descend when it is determined to remain autonomous, the more our confidence in human methods diminishes.

Rajneesh

Half of humanity has been accepting the inner world but denying the outer world.

Michael B. Jordan

For me, with me, making a film is always about humanity.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Val- I’m on Bourbon– (Acheron) I will not venture down that street of crass iniquities and plebeian horror, Acheron. It is the cesspit of humanity. (Valerius)

John Townsend

...the central message of the Bible is about God redeeming a humanity that is in trouble and suffering.

Theodore Parker

Humanity is the sin of God

Margaret Mead

Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.

Marcus Garvey

There is no humanity before that which starts with yourself.

Melinda Gates

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

Michael McClure

We are the hurdles we leap to be ourselves.

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.

Maximilien Robespierre

To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty.

Maya Angelou

Be certain that you do not die without having done something wonderful for humanity.

Philip Zimbardo

Mama, humanity is my business.

Lee Atwater

My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and probably never would have. So, from that standpoint, there is some truth and good in everything.

Laini Taylor

Humanity, perhaps, that quality of benevolence that humans have, without irony, named after themselves.

Lisa Kristine

I see myself as a witness to humanity.

John Stuart Mill

All the good of which humanity is capable is comprised in obedience.

James Jeans

Humanity is at the very beginning of its existence-a new-born babe, with all the unexplored potentialities of babyhood; and until the last few moments its interest has been centred, absolutely and exclusively, on its cradle and feeding bottle.

Martin Luther

The mystery of the humanity of Christ, that he sunk himself into our flesh, is beyond all human understanding.

Nick Bostrom

Machine intelligence is the last invention that humanity will ever need to make.