Quotes About Humanity

Things like Abu Ghraib and even Guantanamo are not new things: there are many precedents.

My father said, 'You should do 'A Day in the Life of Medicine.' A book about how the human race wants to heal itself in new ways.

It's very easy, when we're reading those articles on the 20th page of 'The New York Times,' to distance ourselves and say, 'It's someone else.'

I can't read the newspaper without crying. I'm easily affected by horrible events, you see.

We must show there is good in society. If you read the newspapers, you think there are only crooks in this world, but that's not true.

I just wanted to say that there is so much goodness in the world. We keep looking at the terrible and diabolical things when we open newspapers.

We're going to become caretakers for the robots. That's what the next generation of work is going to be.

I think being nice is more important than being clever.

I like the nice guys. I like when they show the stories, the human element behind it all.

Good fiction can both entertain and light up those dark corners where nice people don't want to go.

I try to be a nice person, but it's difficult sometimes.

It's not a very nice thing to not have empathy. I would like to have empathy. In the past I haven't been very empathetic with other people.

When you are playing on the ground, you are a cricketer, but the moment you step off it, you are just another person. You need to talk to people nicely because you are who you are because of the people.

I used to think people above me might get jealous because I wanted to do what they did. But no, people are much nicer than that.

I am being completely serious when I state this: Sage Northcutt might just be the nicest human being I have ever met in my life. He is sweet as can be. He doesn't have an evil bone in his body.

There's no difference between a gay person and a heterosexual person at the end of the day.

I see no difference between scientific exploration and human exploration.

Of course there are people who think of 'heaven' as a kind of pie-in-the-sky dream of an afterlife to make the thought of dying less awful. No doubt that's a problem as old as the human race.

They said that Seven was a former Borg who had been human and had been assimilated. She was regaining her humanity. I had no interest in this character.

It lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it. While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it.

I have no problem with animals, I just like people more.

Everyone can have a bad period in their life, but we are famous; we have a lot of things. Sometimes people think we are not human, with no feelings, with no problems.

Visiting other places changes your perspective. It helps you understand that no matter where you are, or what country you're in, people are pretty much the same everywhere.

Isn't crying a good thing? Why would we want to give pills to people so they don't weep? When you read a great line in a poem, what's the first thing you do? You can't help it. Crying is a good thing.