Quotes About Humanity

In all honesty, we all want our fantasy selves to be the best people. We all think in a time of crisis, we will react heroically and with humanity.

There's so much goop inside of us, man," he said, "and it all just wants to get out.

Because I know war... because I know the horror, I don't want to add to it. .........After the war, we felt the need to celebrate life, and for me photography was the means to achieve this.

I don't think I should accept other people's suffering because I suffered. Just the opposite, because I suffered I don't want others to suffer.

Vichy proves one thing: if you don't want to know how low your fellow citizens can fall, and crawl, don't lose a war.

People in Afghanistan want peace, including the Taliban. They're also people like we all are. They have families, they have relatives, they have children, they are suffering a tough time.

I can be hurt, you know. I can get as exhausted as anybody else. I can feel so bad I want to cry, too.

That amid our highest civilization men faint and die with want is not due to the niggardliness of nature, but to the injustice of man.

I live by the golden rule: Treat others as you'd want them to treat you.

The Population Reference Bureau predicts that the world's total population will double to 7,000,000,000 before the year 2000. I suppose they will all want dignity, I said.

We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings.

I can't understand why anyone would want nuclear warheads. If you shoot them off, it's not like you can take over that country - all you do is kill millions of people.

The monstrous thing is not that men have created roses out of this dung heap, but that, for some reason or other, they should want roses.

It's a weird curse, when you think about it. We're built for thought, and civilization, more than any other creature we've found. And all we really want to be is killers.

I am because we are. We all bleed the same color. We all want to love and be loved.

I imagine the world dividing into the people who want to feed their children, and the ones shooting at them.

I fall in love with almost every person I photograph. I want to hear their stories. I want to get close. This is personal for me.

I try to live [the Golden Rule] and I certainly expect it of some particular others. But I'll be damned if I want most folk out there to do unto me what they do unto themselves.

We need more people who love humanity and the world, people who want to understand each other.

I honestly want to help. I don't believe I feel differently from other people. I think we all want justice and equality, a chance for a life with meaning.

Such is the scale and depth of poverty in many parts of the world that it won't be ended overnight. That is why if, like me, you want to see an end to poverty, you need to be in it for the long haul.

People want to give back. People want to do good

People do not want war. War springs from causes wholly outside the lives, interests, and feelings of the people.

I never see my bad guys as simply bad. They want pretty much the same thing that you and I want: they want to be happy.