Quotes About Humanity

Indiraji should have been here today, speaking to you in her gentle, impassioned voice. One with Bharatmata's immortal spirit, she now shines as a lodestar not only for us but for all humanity.

One side of me is very busy paying attention to the details of life, the humanity of people, catching the street voices, the middle-class, upper-middle-class secret lives of Turks. The other side is interested in history and class and gender, trying to get all of society in a very realistic way.

In 'Underground,' you have to write for everyone, even the bad guys. People need to laugh and love and have voices and do bad things. Even slave owners need to be people.

And the purpose of small talk is not to be controversial, clever or even interesting. It's simply to fill the silent void with a small gesture of common humanity. It's a spoken smile, a verbal handshake.

Just imagine, the thousands and thousands of concerts that take place every single day, all over the world. And the positive effect that they would have on the people listening. Now imagine a world without this. This void... it is unthinkable.

It's incredible to me that any two individual minds, trapped in their skulls and bodies and histories and unique experiences, are able to reach across the void between them and touch at all.

Kafka: cries of helplessness in twenty powerful volumes.

I think after 9/11, here in America, I saw something extraordinary. I saw neighbors looking after neighbors. I don't think anybody asked who anybody voted for. It was people taking care of other people.

Some of the most hard-working, generous people I've met in my whole life didn't really want to vote for him but did. My calling is to step onto the other side and humanise and portray the struggles of many Trump voters.

Security is a human problem.

You don't ever want to seem less than a person.

The enslaving of the other is also the enslaving of the self.

The reason I'm a writer is to understand other people and myself more. The reason I'm a writer is to dramatize stories about human beings so that it improves my life. So that's a very selfish thing.

I think people are getting more and more - unfortunately - inured to violence. People are like, less sensitive to things they should wake up about.

I think that I have a sensitivity toward people, and that is a strength.

Since when is it good to separate a family?

Money has to serve, not to rule.

Serving other people - it's in another league.

At the roots, people are still people. That's why Shakespeare is so popular no matter what the language.

Shame is something that's man-made.

People can be slave-ships in shoes.

The short story has been here and is here and will be here as long as we are.

I can't help but care about the rights of the people I used to shower with.

Books have shown me horror and beauty.