Quotes About Humanity

My stories are about humans and how they react, or fail to react, or react stupidly. I'm pointing the finger at us, not at the zombies. I try to respect and sympathize with the zombies as much as possible.

With slow-moving zombies, what always comes at stake is our humanity.

Zombies have always had a lot of built-in social commentary.

What 'Twilight Zone' did was show we all have a great capacity for good and evil.

I have spent the past ten years in just about every war zone there was.

If you've got a camera, go to a war zone and tell a story.

The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.

Since the early '80s, I've found myself in war zones in various parts of the world.

It sounds strange to say it, but you can be in a war zone and have a lot of fun. Even though war is essentially pain on all sides, human beings have the capacity to enjoy themselves. The soldiers are mostly young people, full of enthusiasm and energy, and that's an exciting thing for an old guy like me.

It turns out umpires and judges are not robots or traffic cameras, inertly monitoring deviations from a fixed zone of the permissible. They are humans.

Clearly, then, the city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.

As an actor, to go and see those shows - great plays like 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' and Clifford Odets's 'Golden Boy' - it's so exhilarating. I'd personally love to perform the role of Jerry in Edward Albee's 'The Zoo Story.' He's a transient, lost soul, and an example of humanity at its rawest.

I don't know how to put this, but to some people, the NFL is basically modern-day slavery. Don't get me wrong - we get paid a lot of money. There's a sense of 'shut up and play,' that this is entertainment for other people. Then, when we go out in public, we're like zoo animals. We're not human beings.

The more we realize our minuteness and our impotence in the face of cosmic forces, the more astonishing becomes what human beings have achieved.

It is right it should be so, Man was made for joy and woe; And when this we rightly know, Through the world we safely go.

It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man.

Too much happens ... Man performs, engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.

I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.

Never does a man know the force that is in him till some mighty affection or grief has humanized the soul.

Thou, too, sail on, O Shipof State! Sail on, O Union, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate!

The artist has a special task and duty; the task of reminding men of their humanity and the promise of their creativity.

When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence.

You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe - when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that.

Nothing links man to man like the frequent passage from hand to hand of a good book.