Quotes About Humanity

I like to investigate all different kinds of people, I guess, and find out what makes them who they are, and try to be honest in the portrayal, and truthful, and find out how to understand that person, how to communicate that person's experience.

Everybody should read 'Slaughterhouse-Five' by Kurt Vonnegut. This book is about the hypocrisy of war, told in satire, and is hard-hitting and truthful.

I'm not happy all the time, and I wouldn't want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.

I'm nice because, when I was growing up, so many people weren't nice to me, and I remember how that felt. And I don't want to make anyone else feel like that. I value nice.

Every day is not perfect. You have your bad days and good days just like anyone else. You do not want to talk to people sometimes. It is normal.

Nobody wants to experience sad events but people like to listen to sad songs. That's the beauty of music.

Try to love someone who you want to hate, because they are just like you, somewhere inside, in a way you may never expect, in a way that resounds so deeply within you that you cannot believe it.

Don't think about what you want, think about what the world needs, and strive to fill that gap. Success is a game of inches.

Fight on land and sea All men want to be free If they don't never mind we'll abolish all mankind

What's the point of God making us human if He doesn't want us to act like we're human?' 'To see if we can rise above our natures,'Megan said.

Ubuntu really says if you want to be nice to yourself, start in a way by being nice to the other.

We are America; we don't torture. And the moment that is not the case, I want off the train.

Storytelling, a primitive art, is as old as the beginning of mankind. People want to receive what's out there in the form of stories, not just facts, opinion, analysis.

Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.

It's important for us to be kind to other people and treat other people the way that we want to be treated.

I always kind of thought I want to be a good person, I want to be right to my fellow men and love them like were supposed to.

The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.

Once we realize we are all members of humanity, we will want to compete in the spirit of love

"They've been trying to test on animals for the past 50 years. Nobody's come up with a cure,"he says. "If you want to test on somebody, test on me."

Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.

I play to all people, and I play to people not governments, and I believe strongly that all people are peaceful and would want peace.

Humans are vulnerable, messy little animals and that's normal. And all I want to do is make a space for that in my films.

Teaching is the human thing, in terms of building the kids' self-confidence, so if we take the broad ways that we want to see society to be better, science can only provide certain pieces of that.

I am ashamed to be a member of the human race but I don't want to add any more to that shame, I want to scrape a little of it off.