Quotes About Humanity

My message to everyone is that we truly are one, and the minute you see me as the person, not just as the Muslim - when you see me as Adeel Alam and not just the character on TV - when you see past all of that, we are all the same, and we are all just one.

I have a lot of problems as a human being. It's not something that you do, just walking around saying 'I'm perfect' or 'I'm good.' Man, I have a lot of different issues that I'm definitely working through and working on.

Let us democratise knowledge. Let us universalise justice. Together, let us globalise compassion!

I think that the day a justice forgets that each decision comes at a cost to someone, then I think you start losing your humanity.

You sit up there, and you see the whole gamut of human nature. Even if the case being argued involves only a little fellow and $50, it involves justice. That's what is important.

Let me say this as clearly as I can: No matter how sharp a grievance or how deep a hurt, there is no justification for killing innocents.

No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people.

Sending people into space is very important culturally. That's really the justification. You cannot rationally justify it on the basis of the science and technology we get out of it.

Nothing can justify war.

He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?

I believe in holiness and sacredness in other people. It doesn't mean that the clouds part and I see God. That's a juvenile way of thinking about it.

If being rightwing is thinking that Karl Marx's doctrine was a catastrophe for humanity, then I'm rightwing.

I am keen to do roles that are down-to-earth, appealing, and sensitive.

When our TV screens are filled with heartbreaking images of suffering, we have to dig deep inside ourselves in order to keep going.

If we are not our brother's keeper, at least let us not be his executioner.

I adore Kelly Bishop as a human being and as an actress.

I would lie in bed at night composing letters to Kennedy and Khrushchev, trying to convince them that they really didn't want to blow up the world. It seemed so simple to me that we just shouldn't hurt each other.

'House Of Cards' with Kevin Spacey - I love how it portrays humans in power as just like the rest of us - but even worse.

To kick someone when they're down is just something that you really should never do.

I fought the social media thing kicking and screaming. It can demystify. But it's a different world now, and that is part of what we, as humans, have developed: right, wrong, good, bad, I don't know.

I'm not sure. But that bless-his/her-heart kind of melancholic humor is among my favorite things in the world. I guess it exposes a kind of humanity - or that's the hope, at least - a kind of grudging respect for human frailty. Unless it's actually kicking human frailty while it's down - I'm not sure.

If people in this country think of Africa as a place with kids and flies swarming around their heads, then they won't understand that these people are you and you are them.

The countries with the greatest problems have the kindest people.

I like kindness. Who doesn't? Life is definitely too short for self-centered, abusive people.