Quotes About Humanity

God is the same God for everybody: those in the church and those in the world.

There are enough churches already, but the world still needs salvation.

I'm just a citizen of the world.

I'm a citizen of the world.

I do think that books, good books, free you. They make you feel a citizen of the world and things like class, sex and age don't matter. They're the greatest leveler.

I am a citizen of the world.

I am a citizen of the world, or no world at all!

If civilians are going to be killed, I would rather have them be their civilians than our civilians.

Ask, 'How are we different from the great apes?' We have culture, we have civilisation, and we have language to be celebrated as part of being human.

If you ask me what is civilisation, it's little more than an act of faith.

Don't talk to me about civility when you're separating families at the border.

No matter where we are or how advanced we think we are, there are elemental issues of our civilization that stories help us work through.

It's quite possible that the end of us will not be the end of the Earth. Even if we really screw things up and things go badly for us and our civilization, the Earth is pretty resilient.

War is not civilized.

I've learned that being a superhero isn't all glitz and glamour. We think if we have a special power, our problem will go away. It's just a new set of problems. Being a superhero alienates you and separates you from humanity. As Spiderman famously said, 'With great power comes great responsibility.'

Playing a superhero isn't interesting because then you personify perfection, which is boring!

Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.

As you get older, you realise your parents aren't these superheroes. They're actually people.

It's hard to connect to these superheroes that are completely out of this world. But Spider-Man is first and foremost Peter Parker, who we can all relate to.

In a way, Captain America is the most grounded of the main Marvel superheroes. He is basically just a man, only more so. He doesn't fly across the sky like Iron Man. He isn't from another world like Thor. He doesn't turn into a green monster.

It's not just superheroes that make a story great.

The cool thing about superheroes is that they all have these very human roots, and that brings them all together and makes them all the same, in a way.

Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human.

Unless they're superhuman, nobody's going to look perfect all the time.