Quotes About Humanity

There are nearly 7 billion people on this planet, so there are a lot of characters to play.

Everyone is usually screwed up in some way and that is usually where the work comes in - figuring out how to make it believable and make it real to present someone's problems that you don't necessarily actually know anything about.

If human beings are fundamentally good, no government is necessary; if they are fundamentally bad, any government, being composed of human beings, would be bad also.

Physical contact is a human necessity.

What I always do is go with the stories that put up the hair on the back of my neck or make me cry or make me laugh.

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

An interface is humane if it is responsive to human needs and considerate of human frailties.

My family has always encouraged me to think of the needy.

The thing that inspires me most is empathizing with people's flaws and seeing how they deal with them. That sort of connection you feel with someone when you realize that maybe even the negative things that they've said or done are because of insecurities or injuries they've endured.

All of my writing career is about how human beings negotiate dark matter.

We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.

Traditionally, I have no right to talk about race. I'm white; I didn't grow up in an all-black neighborhood. But the license I see for myself is I'm a member of the world.

The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.

I'm not any more moral than my neighbors.

Man's nature is fundamentally good, or perhaps it is neither good nor evil. In any case, man is something to work on. We must hold fast to this fact - man is something to work on.

Nelson Mandela is awe inspiring - a person who really sacrificed for what he believed in. I feel truly humbled by him.

Of course, Nelson Mandela, everybody knows Nelson Mandela. I mean, he's a great gift not only for Africa but for the whole world, actually. But do not expect everybody to be a Nelson Mandela.

I think every time I can find a story that touches that human nerve, and even sometimes makes you cry, I think that I've found something that I'll like very much.

I don't see how we can have both the freedoms we had before and the safety net that we all need considering the way the world is today. And that's just because human beings can't trust each other. We've given in over and over to some of the darkest elements that exist in life itself.

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

I personally will never forget that people are more important than buildings.

We are all human and fall short of where we need to be. We must never stop trying to be the best we can be.

What we are trying to do now, this new generation of African writers, is to write about what it is to be a human being living in a particular African country. These are stories that resonate with anyone, anywhere.

I'm just like everyone else. I want to spend time, go out to to eat, hang out with my family, and I love talking to and meeting new people. But I'm just a person.