Quotes About Humanity

The historian Will Durant calculated that there have only been twenty-nine years in all of human history during which a war was not underway somewhere.

Human history is not the battle of good struggling to overcome evil. It is a battle fought by a great evil struggling to crush a small kernel of human kindness. But if what is human in human beings has not been destroyed even now, then evil will never conquer.13

A soldier who is able to see the humanity of the enemy makes a troubled and ineffective killer.

The role of the artist, then, precisely, is to illuminate that darkness, blaze roads through the vast forest," Baldwin writes, "so that we will not, in all our doing, lose sight of its purpose, which is, after all, to make the world a more human dwelling place.

I think what's so brilliant about 'Black Mirror' is that it is a mirror into our own messed-up psyches.

Thinking about the new epoch - often called the Anthropocene, or the age of humanity - challenges us to look at ourselves in the mirror of deep time, measured not in centuries or even in millennia, but over millions and billions of years.

At the end of the day, one of the biggest misconceptions of Ghost is that it's just about the devil. It's always been about mankind and living.

I'm a rich man, but I don't want to be a miser.

I am as miserable as anyone - sometimes.

You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery.

I have empathy; I am humane. I understand human misery.

I don't think we can be entirely happy seeing such misery around us.

There's enough misery in the world today without going out of the way to create more.

My dear Miss Glory, Robots are not people. They are mechanically more perfect than we are, they have an astounding intellectual capacity, but they have no soul.

I'm probably a bit romantic about it, but I think we humans miss having contact with fire. We need it.

You might get some serial killers who are born with a chip missing, but for the most part I don't think anyone is born bad.

I don't have time for politics. There is a mission, and that is to save lives.

When you are thinking about going away for a long duration mission, it has to be part of your mindset that you're leaving your family, but it's for the right reasons, for good reasons, and hopefully helping humanity.

I think the human race made a big mistake at the beginning of the industrial revolution, we leaped for the mechanical things, people need the use of their hands to feel creative.

As the possessor of complete knowledge, God is not mistaken about people's experiences as people are mistaken about each others' experiences.

Nobody's perfect. And if you think they are, you're sadly mistaken.

Every human being makes mistakes.

Everyone is flawed and everyone makes mistakes and is culpable.

We're all men, not machines. We make mistakes.