Quotes About Humanity

The difference between kitties and humans is that we are aware of our mortal condition, and the burden of consciousness is to evoke and embody and explore the coordinates of our condition.

From the dust of the earth, from the common elementary fund, the Creator has made Homo sapiens. From the same material he has made every other creature, however noxious and insignificant to us. They are earth-born companions and our fellow mortals.

We seek true individuality and the true individuals. But we find them not. For lo, we mortals see what our poor eyes can see; and they, the true individuals, - they belong not to this world of our merely human sense and thought.

One of the most beautiful things in the world I've ever seen or heard is people laughing, even when there seems to be so little reason for them to laugh.

I really like to go for the essence of things - the most beautiful parts of things - of human beings or of music. If there are things in there that are getting in the way and complicating it, it's just not good for me.

The most important thing is you have to want to do something for somebody other than yourself.

The most important thing in the world is children. St. Jude is literally saving people's lives. It's incredible.

The people who are the most powerful and have the most money sometimes don't value other people.

The most powerful lesson I learnt was to have faith in humanity.

You know, my mother had a rule which was 'people are just people.'

Civil war, now, 100 years in the future - the things that motivate human beings, they don't change emotionally.

There's nothing self-serving about what motivated me to bring 'Schindler's List' to the screen.

You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.

There are people who do everything for a calculative political motive. My only motive is a human motive.

As Edmund Burke said, more than two centuries ago, "In history a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from past errors and infirmities of mankind." But he warned that the past could also be a means of "keeping alive, or reviving, dissensions and animosities.

Wrongs abound in times and places around the world - inflicted on, and perpetrated by, people of virtually every race, creed and color. But what can any society today hope to gain by having newborn babies in that society enter the world as heirs to prepackaged grievances against other babies born into that same society on the same day.

Scientific knowledge does not contain within itself directions for its humanitarian use.

Not until human nature itself progresses morally will the majority of people prefer peaceful and boring market relations to the violent and exciting relations between coercer and coerced, predator and victim.

Ä°nsan "bilimleri" fizik bilimlerinden sadece farkl? deÄŸil, birçok bak?mdan onlar?n z?dd?d?r. DoÄŸa ne yalan ne doÄŸru söyler, oysa insanlar al??kanl?klar? üzere ikisini de yapar.

Mutsuzluk, çaresizlik, hayal k?r?kl??? ve intihar insanl?k halinin ayr?lmaz parças?d?r. Bunlar?n sebebi ne iblisleri olmak ne de ak?l hastas? olmakt?r. Herkesin bildiÄŸi bu gerçeÄŸi iddia etmek ÅŸöyle dursun, ona inanma cesaretine bile herkes sahip deÄŸildir.

Seeing the poor as one vast homogenous mass, we overlook that saving ten children from a painful death by hunger does make a real difference, all the difference for these children, and that this difference is quite significant even when many other children remain hungry.

he knew he would always be the sad one: caged in that little round of skull, imprisoned in that beating and most secret heart, his life must always walk down lonely passages.  Lost.  He understood that men were forever strangers to one another, that no one ever comes really to know any one

Which of us is not forever a stranger and alone?

Lost. He understood that men were forever strangers to one another, that no one ever comes really to know any one, that imprisoned in the dark womb of our mother, we come to life without having seen her face, that we are given to her arms a stranger, and that, caught in that insoluble prison of being, we escape it never, no matter what arms may clasp us, what mouth may kiss us, what heart may warm us. Never, never, never, never, never.