(3311 quotes found)
“God's great cosmic joke on the human race was requiring that men and women live together in marriage”
Mark Twain
“Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice.”
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
“We must never permit the voice of humanity within us to be silenced. It is man's sympathy with all creatures that first makes him truly a man.”
Albert Schweitzer
“From inaccessible mountain range by way of desert untrod by human foot to the ends of the unknown seas, the breath of the everlasting creative spirit is felt, rejoicing over every speck of dust that hearkens to it and lives”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there”
James Buchanan
“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the human heart can hold.”
Zelda Fitzgerald
“Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without”
Confucius
“Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity.”
William Zinsser
“The earth is the general and equal possession of all humanity and therefore cannot be the property of individuals”
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
