Quotes About Humanity

It's fine if you want a system that shows a boa constrictor to better advantage than a man.

So war is an extremely sad business, because the majority of people don't want to be in it.

Trivializing the Holocaust is the last thing I want to do.

A man capable of torturing another human being, even if he's scum, feels something break in him, the most important thing that he has, his humanity, his soul if you want.

All people want on this earth is to connect with others. Other than eating and sleeping. Human beings need to connect with other human beings. Otherwise, they lose their mind.

Nothing beats having a genuine compassion for human souls. If there is one thing I know, it's that people want to be acknowledged; they want to be heard; and above all, they want to be appreciated.

Sometimes you want to fall on your knees and thank God in heaven for all the poor news reporting that goes on in the world.

Who wants to be a goddess when we can be human? Perfection is a flaw disguised as control.

I have my flaws and my issues, past and present and who knows what will happen in the future. I want people to know Im vulnerable too and each one of us is.

Anything that exists on the human palette is, from my point of view, fair game for artists to portray. You don't have to go see it if you don't want to, so don't go.

We all have dark sides to ourselves, and I want to portray that in a realistic way.

We scarcely wish to analyse what we feel to be so large and deeply human.

It may be that ... when the advance of destructive weapons enables everyone to kill everybody else nobody will want to kill anyone at all. [Referring to the hydrogen bomb.]

It's human nature to want to be with other people.

I did not know that mankind was suffering for want of gold.

You should never be afraid of people... such fear can destroy us completely. You've simply got to get rid of it, if you want to turn into someone decent. You understand that, don't you?

Art is not that much needed in life, we only need sleep and food. But why do people want art? Because they want to feel emotion! So emotionally moving things is great art to me!

I'd like to believe there are people who are good, I know there are good Christians and good people from every faith who just want what's best for humanity.

Harry, suffering like this proves you are still a man! This pain is part of being human —" "THEN — I — DON'T — WANT — TO — BE — HUMAN!" Harry roared.

Even the roughest character, underneath all that hurt, is someone who wants to love and be loved.

I think if people genuinely want to help ... that'll shine through, no matter what color or what race. We cannot see race before compassion.

That's why I write fiction, because I want to write these stories that people will read and find universal.

I will continue to make mistakes and hope to be forgiven so I have to treat people the same way I want to be treated.

Adulthood is interesting to adults. But I would never want to write about stuff I dont feel everybody can connect to.