Quotes About Humanity

I look at my time on this earth as social anthropology, at home and in work life.

For me, I'm a filmmaker because, above all, I'm an explorer. It's my way of exploring and investigating the problems, the questions, and the mysteries about what it means to be human that vex me most, that keep me up at night, and that, when I finally fall asleep, insinuate themselves into my dreams.

Perhaps the most mysterious of all mammals is the male Homo sapiens. Indeed, many anthropologists classify the group as a subspecies.

Poetry helps me understand who I am. It helps me understand the world around me. But above all, what poetry has taught me is the fact that I need to embrace mystery in order to be completely human.

Mystery is great, that's what art is and I think when you can leave your imagination to grow, it's good. I just don't like it if it's super bad because I'm a loving person, I love everybody and human beings. I do have a darkness to me, but I would never do bad things or wish bad things on people, or hurt anything or anyone.

People, whether they be male or female, are equally a mystery to me.

I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.

I think the Greeks were the only people ever to nail character. Their heroes are deeply flawed.

Calculation has its advantages, but no one likes naked calculation.

At the end of the day, we came into the world naked, and that's the way we're going to go.

To live in mankind is far more than to live in a name.

I'm not a brand name, I'm a person.

I do believe in the idea of a historic person named Jesus that was a kind of chill dude who was just telling people to chill and be nice to each other. And he got penalized for that.

That all who have ever been born men from the beginning of creation, and are deceased, are either in heaven or in hell, follows from those things which have been said and shown in the preceding article, namely, that Heaven and Hell are from the human race.

Stories and narratives are one of the most powerful things in humanity. They're devices for dealing with the chaotic danger of existence.

African narratives in the West, they proliferate. I really don't care anymore. I'm more interested in the stories we tell about ourselves - how, as a writer, I find that African writers have always been the curators of our humanity on this continent.

In terms of goals for NASA before I die, we need to be living on Mars. And I might not live that long, so they better get on with it!

We go as humans into space to expand the domain of humanity and life - not robots. And as we do, we will get more science because when you are living somewhere, you obviously learn more about it. NASA and the government must first get out of the way and then support us as we open the frontier.

Not everybody would choose to be a firefighter or an ambulance driver. Not everyone wants to see the nasty bits of life.

I like the idea of all of us looking at the world with less of an emphasis on national borders and with more of an emphasis on shared humanity.

We are all human beings, and our nationality is simply an accident of birth.

Authors have a nationality; books do not.

I don't think nations can stand aside for ethnic cleansing and genocide.

People are people the world over. Some are good, some bad, some greedy and some generous. Nations are like people and act the same way.