Quotes About Humanity

DO I BELIEVE THAT PEOPLE ARE BASICALLY GOOD? Yes, I do believe that, and I trust Buddhists and Hindus and Moslems to seek the good and to want to live in peace.

Baby, in a world without pity Do you think what I'm askin's too much I just want to feel you in my arms Share a little of that Human Touch.

It sucks the way the world works. You can do a hundred things for people, but you do one bad mistake and everyone crucifies you and that's all they want to remember.

If I meet someone at a bus stop, I want to really meet that person. I don't want to be 'Hugh Jackman, the famous actor.'

Do not tell me you don't know you're pretty. If so, I'm about to lose all faith in mankind. You don't want to be responsible for that.

I'm not in the business of making us look clean, but I don't want us to look like monsters either. I think there is a little bit of hero and villain in all of us.

Do we not see all humans unaware Of what they want, and always searching everywhere, And changing place, as if to drop the load they bear?

I've seen too much hate to want to hate, myself.

I dream of a world liberated of all diseases. Ignorance also upsets me a lot. How can one calmly look at the pictures from Rwanda and not instantly want to take action and try to ease the suffering?

When you see someone as a human being, you begin to understand most people are doing what they believe is right. I ask myself, "What if you were wrong? How would you want someone to engage with you?"

So many people want me to hate him and destroy him, but I don't want to. I want him to be happy. He's not a bad person.

In Oran, as elsewhere, for want of time and thought, people have to love one another without knowing it.

I can't explain why one wants to pass a particular sort of pain onto other people, but you do.

Hearts were made for being broken. There's really no way around it if you want to be a human being.

Universally, not only in Israel, people want to feel good about themselves. We all want to feel good to some extent.

I was heartened that people everywhere want certain basic freedoms, even if they live in a totally different cultural environment.

We do not like to be robbed of an enemy; we want someone to hate when we suffer. It is so depressing to think that we suffer because we are fools; yet, taking mankind in the mass, that is the truth.

At times, it seems to me that to be human is to want that which we cannot have. For some, this is power. For me, it is peace.

All the world does as it is supposed to, except for humans. Maybe that's why you so often want to kill each other.

The world isn't awful. People aren't awful. They want to be good. Something makes them bad. Something breaks them down, makes them snap.

Because I hold an Israeli passport, I have a share in all the wrongs that are done to the Palestinians. . . . I want to be able to say that I did all I could to prevent the bloodshed.

I'm not political. I just want America to do well, I want the world to do well. I want everyone to stop fighting.

These esoteric, intellectual debates-I want them to come to New Jersey and sit across from the widows and the orphans and have that conversation.

Treat everyone the way you would want to be treated... this can be applied to any situation.