Quotes About Humanity

I believe that each person is more than the worst thing they've ever done.

If a superhero knocks over a building, and there are 5,000 people in the building that we can presume are now dead, does it matter? Because they're not people we know. But if one dog we like gets run over by a car, it's the worst thing we've ever seen. I totally understand where that visceral reaction comes from. I have that same reaction.

I think that the worst thing is realizing that mankind - that - that human beings can be so horrible to other human beings.

If what I have to do is share a sandwich to lift someone's spirits, put a smile on their face - the worst thing that happens is I go broke!

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.

We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

One's own self-worth is tied to the worth of the community to which one belongs, which is intimately connected to humanity in general. What happens in Darfur becomes an assault on my own community, and on me as an individual. That's what the human family is all about.

The only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness.

The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people.

No life's worth more than any other, no sister worth less than any brother.

Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.

From my very first day as an entrepreneur, I've felt the only mission worth pursuing in business is to make people's lives better.

If you are writing any book about the end of the world, what you are really writing about is what's worth saving about it.

Most of us really aren't horribly unique. There are 6 billion of us. Put 'em all in one room and very few would stand out as individuals. So maybe we ought to think of worth in terms of our ability to get along as a part of nature, rather than being the lords over nature.

The United Nations, whose membership comprises almost all the states in the world, is founded on the principle of the equal worth of every human being.

Like any organizer worth their salt, I'm open to critique, but I won't be bullied or treated badly. I'm an imperfect human, and as such, I have a proclivity to make mistakes. And while I make mistakes, I am not my mistakes.

You don't go into space just for the science. Economically, it is not worth it. I think the reason we should be in space is for the exploration; it's the human endeavour.

This idea of shared humanity and the connections that we make with one another - that's what, in fact, makes life worth living.

There's always a common attraction to universal needs of love and a feeling of worthiness.

Once we accept our own basic worthiness we cannot help but see the basic worthiness of every other human.

The travail of freedom and justice is not easy, but nothing serious and important in life is easy. The history of humanity has been a continuing struggle against temptation and tyranny - and very little worthwhile has ever been achieved without pain.

Just when you're beginning to think pretty well of people, you run across somebody who puts sugar on sliced tomatoes.

I don't want my tombstone to say actress. I want it to say human being.

We live on this speck called Earth - think about what you might do, today or tomorrow - and make the most of it.