Quotes About Humanity

I want to sing of humanity, friendship, what's happening to the Earth and the like.

We of the soft-crooning radio type of singer are giving the people what they want. The American public as a whole does not care for full-throated operatic singing. And why should it? Down through the ages, it has been the simple song which has lived and continues to touch the heart of humanity. And so it is with singing.

As a singer-songwriter, what I do is write about how the human feels.

I think, as singers and performers, we are ambassadors of the human experience. I don't want to get bored just talking about myself.

I'm still very sure that painting is one of the most basic human capacities, like dancing and singing, that make sense, that stay with us, as something human.

I don't happen to believe, by the way, that immigration policies that single people out because of religion, for instance, are fair and just.

It is perfectly obvious that no one nor any single country can save the world from the horrors of tsunamis, hurricanes, earthquakes and winged influenza.

Modernity is a deal. The entire contract can be summarised in a single phrase: humans agree to give up meaning in exchange for power.

We are all people who have messed up. I fall short every single day.

If you want a long-term relationship that doesn't require a lot of work, I say, get a dog. They love you no matter what. But when it comes to humans, there's no secret; you really have to appreciate the person every single day.

I have love in my heart, and I'm kind to people every single day of my life.

For me, as a feminist, as somebody who wants to lift up women - because I do; I come from a single mom who raised three boys on her own - I feel like, you close the door on women, you close the door on humanity.

A single moment spent in a business meeting or at a pub is more than enough to reveal the basic human truth that we are all faking it most of the time.

I like exploring both the light parts and the dark parts of a single person. And all of those shades tend to come out most acutely in stories about families.

There's no single person on this planet that's worth more than the other. Know your worth. Be confident in yourself.

Every single person on the planet has equal humanity.

Gee, I wish that life were so black and white that you can't think of a single person who, you know, a good person who has done bad things.

In disposition the Negro is joyous, flexible, and indolent; while the many nations which compose this race present a singular diversity of intellectual character, of which the far extreme is the lowest grade of humanity.

I think we go through the world feeling alone and singular, and you forget that your one story is probably the same as millions of people's stories. Maybe with different specifics. But a lot of people experience the same things.

It is no light matter to put in jeopardy a single life when it is the very singularity of each life which underpins the idea of a just society.

It's cool to play a sinister bad guy who also has a human side.

Jesus never called a human being a sinner.

By his disobedience of God's law, before man had exercised his power to bring children into the earth, not only Adam lost everything for himself, but his children were born as sinners, imperfect, and without the right to live.

We're all in this together. We're all sinners.