Quotes About Humanity

The Bible tries to make humans not animals the whole time. I think it's a bit of a mistake.

Millions of people in the world's poorest countries remain enslaved by the chains of poverty. It is time to set them free.

Believe it or not, that was the first time I recognized that in some ways she was just like the rest of us.

I photograph different people all the time. I like to shoot all kinds of people.

At some time in their careers, most good historians itch to write a history of the world, endeavor to discover what makes humanity the most destructive and creative of species.

John's time and effort were, in the main, spent on pretty honorable stuff. As for the other side, well, nobody's perfect, nobody's Jesus. And look what they did to him.

Two things have always been true about human beings. One, the world is always getting better. Two, the people living at that time think it's getting worse.

There is no time in human history when you were more perfectly represented than in the Garden of Eden.

The real war poets are always war poets, peace or any time.

There's never enough money, there's never enough time, there's never enough reliable help around, anything you plan always goes wrong - it's just hard to be human, isn't it?

That's just a part of being an artist: you can't write great stuff all the time, because if you did, then you'd be inhuman. The human side of people is that sometimes they fail.

What to think of other people? I ask myself this question each time I make a new acquaintance. So strange does it seem to me that we exist, and that we consent to exist.

Vices of the time; vices of the man.

Alas! There cometh the time when man will no longer give birth to any star. Alas! There cometh the time of the most despicable man, who can no longer despise himself.

In the 40,000 year time scale we're all the same people. We're all equally primitive, give or take two or three thousand years here or a hundred years there.

I'll always remember when I bumped into Good Morning America's Robin Roberts on a flight to my mother's funeral in 1994, and how kind she was during that difficult time.

I shall never love anybody. I can't love people. I hate them.' 'The time will come, dear, the time will come.

All the doctrines that have flourished in the world about immortality have hardly affected man's natural sentiment in the face of death.

Next time round Hitler will be a machine.

Very few among us are noble, or even mature, in all parts of our nature at the same time.

Anybody, at any time, may equally find himself victim or executioner.

It's time to change the conversation about nature to focus on what we all have in common: our shared humanity.

There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself.

If mankind is naturally good, he is sure going against his nature more and more of the time. It sounds like a bad joke: the paranoids are after us.