Quotes About Humanity

I am more on the side of humans than robots.

Humans are complex, and I think in entertainment in general, it's very easy to put people in boxes.

I have always tried to be a humble servant of God and a humble member of humanity.

I'm a human just like anyone else, and I understand that, so at the end of the day, you've got to stay humble.

I was very excited to meet Amanda Seyfried. She is one of the most humbling human beings you will ever meet. She deserves success.

I want to see what technology's going to be like in a few hundred years, if the human race hasn't completely obliterated itself by then.

I don't know that movies are important. But I know that stories are important. Movies may disappear. They've only been around, for God's sake, for the last hundred years... I think that it's the need to tell stories, and that people need to be told stories. It's the old sitting around the fire, you know.

There is no humiliation more abusive than hunger.

Certainly, hunger can bring out the worst in us. But it can also bring out the best.

The intentions to be kind, compassionate, helpful, happy, and liberated are among the most beautiful qualities we have as humans.

Art cannot save anybody from anything.

In what resides the most characteristic Virtue of humanity? In good works? Possibly. In the creation of beautiful objects? Perhaps. But some would look in a different direction, and find it in detachment. To all such David Hume must be a great saint in the calendar; for no mortal being was ever more completely divested of the trammels of the personal and the particular, none ever practiced with more consummated success the divine art of impartiality

It is at work everywhere, functioning smoothly at times, at other times in fits and starts. It breathes, it heats, it eats. It shits and fucks. What a mistake to have ever said the id.

Man is no longer man enclosed, but man in debt.

The truly frightening flaw in humanity is our capacity for cruelty - we all have it.

People are dumb. I'll never get over how dumb people are.

I don't know that we are actually human at this point, those of us who are like most of us, who grew up with the words to say; when a loved one dies, we know the words to say. If we want to play the stud or the smart-ass or the fool, we know the words to say. We are all working from the same dog-eared script. It's a very difficult era in which to be a person, just a real, actual person, instead of a collection of personality traits selected from an endless Automat of characters.

It's all too much for her, the cruelty of human beings.

There's something disturbing about not even bothering with a name. Whenever I see news stories about children who were killed by their parents, I think: But how could it be? They cared enough to give this kid a name, they had a moment—at least one moment—when they sifted through all the possibilities and picked one specific name for their child, decided what they would call their baby. How could you kill something you cared enough to name?

Lately, I've been leaning towards kindness. - Camille Preaker

People behaved mostly well and then they died.

Imagine the jacket copr: People behaved mostly well and then they died.

No estoy seguro de que, llegados a este punto, sigamos siendo realmente humanos, al menos aquellos de nosotros que somos como la mayoría de nosotros: los que crecimos con la televisión y el cine y ahora internet. Si alguien nos traiciona, sabemos qué palabras decir; cuando muere un ser amado, sabemos qué palabras decir; si queremos hacernos el machote o el listillo o el loco, sabemos qué palabras decir. Todos seguimos el mismo guión manoseado.

Everyone is nice. They are literally as nice as they can be.