Quotes About Humanity

We've become embarrassed about asking ourselves the straightforward, simple questions that are actually the most relevent: what is it to be human? How can we steer a course between self-indulgence and self-denial and be the very best version of ourselves that we can?

Both politicians and journalists face situations which strain their honesty and humanity. My opinion is that politicians on the average stand up somewhat better than journalists.

People are strange, but more than that, they're good. They're good first, then strange.

I was asked by an NPR reporter once why don't I talk about race that often. I said, 'It's because I'm a neurosurgeon.' And she thought that was a strange response... I said, 'You see, when I take someone to the operating room, I'm actually operating on the thing that makes them who they are. The skin doesn't make them who they are.'

People are strange. We're all morticians. Hey, what's on TV?

We human beings are very dark, strange things.

It's hard not to get depressed when you pay attention to the world and how strangely and corrupt the people in it sometimes behave.

Call no man foe, but never love a stranger.

Humankind is no stranger to calamitous outbreaks of diseases.

No one is ever really a stranger. We cling to the belief that we share nothing with certain people. It's rubbish. We have almost everything in common with everyone.

I think that's what 'Stranger Things' does, it opens you up - it has a real beating heart to it.

When I think about where most of Scripture points me, it is toward defending the poor, and the immigrant, and the stranger, and the prisoner, and the outcast, and those who are left behind by the way society works.

It takes an incredibly special person to be willing to put his or her life on the line for a complete stranger. And to get up every morning, day after day after day, to do that, I think, is extraordinary.

Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.

I haven't lost faith in human nature and I haven't decided to be less compassionate to strangers.

On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.

I want to live in a place where strangers rush to help someone in distress.

For me, there are no my people and strangers, no bad people and good people. All people are equal for me.

What a powerful thing to know: That one's own desires are mappable onto strangers; that what one finds in oneself will most certainly be found in The Other.

I know my mother has always looked at strangers as friends.

Our best hope for the future is not to get people to think of all humanity as family - that's impossible. It lies, instead, in an appreciation of the fact that, even if we don't empathize with distant strangers, their lives have the same value as the lives of those we love.

There's nothing more human than selling food to strangers, you know?

Hopefully, film inspires you to think about human nature. It make us consider how we treat strangers and our most intimate.

'Humans of New York' is basically somebody walking up to absolute strangers on the street every day and, within minutes, talking with them about very personal things. Some things they haven't even told their best friends or family members.