Quotes About Humanity

While it's easy for South Sudan to feel distant, the situation is all too real for the South Sudanese mothers choosing which child gets to eat tomorrow. This is a time when we must look outward together and declare that humanity has no borders - no one deserves to suffer like this, especially in a world of such abundance.

September 11 reinforced for me that whatever I'm writing about, it better be something that really matters to me because we don't know what's going to happen tomorrow. And for me it's stories about people in pain in New York.

When it comes down to it, the reason that science fiction endures is that it is, at its core, an optimistic genre. What it says at the end of the day is that there is a tomorrow, we do go on, we don't extinguish ourselves and leave the planet to the cockroaches.

If an alien race lands on the planet Earth tomorrow and asks me to prove I'm really here, what do I do? What do I give them? What do I tell them? What do I show them? I can't sing or dance. I can't paint. I've never built anything, and I've never contributed anything significant to the human race.

Before there were any sort of 'recordings' there was performance. If we are devolved back to the Stone Age tomorrow, there will be performance.

In an ever-changing technological landscape, where today's platforms are not tomorrow's platforms, the key seems to be that any one of these spaces can use a dose of humanity and art and culture.

As I got older, I started realizing that though people differ in skin tone, religious beliefs, cultures, and food, one thing we all have in common is emotions, so I tapped into emotions.

That is why I come forward tonight without any political label, without any bias, but just simply as an Englishman to say to you: a crime is being committed against civilization.

I'm perfectly flawed... I've got tons of flaws.

I don't think any person in America should die because they are too poor to live.

People have their complexities. They have their heroic moments and their villainous moments, too.

Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.

Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.

Everything has been said, and we are more than seven thousand years of human thought too late.

You can certainly make the case that we're devolving, that it may already be too late to save the rain forests, let alone the planet.

But there are too many people that make so much money at the cost of lives of other humans and for no reason but to make the money.

There's too many people in the world.

There are just way too many people suffering out there.

Too many people are making images of war. If I want to see war, I'll watch the news.

At present, too much theological thinking is very human-centered.

There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.

Sometimes we read or hear too much news that makes us fearful or suspicious of others. We can forget that most of the people that we know, or at least encounter regularly, are decent and friendly.

I care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.

I try genuinely, when I'm playing a character, to not judge them and just to inhabit someone as how one sees them. That being said, you also want to make sure that you don't blur the edges of people too much because humans are naughty and complicated beings.