Quotes About Humanity

All the girls in the world were divided into two classes: one class included all the girls in the world except her, and they had all the usual human feelings and were very ordinary girls; while the other class -herself alone- had no weaknesses and was superior to all humanity.

L'homme a conscience d'être un Dieu et il a raison parce que Dieu est en lui. Il a conscience d'être un cochon et il a également raison parce que le cochon est en lui. Mais il se trompe lorsqu'il prend le cochon pour un Dieu.

What I think about vivisection is that if people admit that they have the right to take or endanger the life of living beings for the benefit of many, there will be no limit to their cruelty.

Todos pensam em mudar a humanidade e ninguém pensa em mudar a si mesmo.

As someone once said (and no, it wasn't Einstein), "Computers are incredibly fast, accurate and stupid. Human beings are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant. Together they are powerful beyond imagination." Let us never confuse the two.

Fiction is about feeling, which is to say that short stories are about all of us.

Most drama in our lives is really rather squalid.

I think the highest purpose of fiction is to show that all people are fundamentally worthy of mercy.

There is no such thing as a weird human being, It's just that some people require more understanding than others.

What psychology failed to appreciate, Frankl believed, is the multidimensional nature of human beings. He did not deny that biology or conditioning shapes us, but he also insisted that there is room for free will—to choose to develop certain values or a particular course in life, or to retain our dignity in difficult situations.

Only through the perception of the indissoluble unity of the two faces of being in creation, the poverty of the soul of humanity and of the world, can we perceive the beauty and the animation and the personification of the things of the world. It is only by the continual perception of this beauty-in-poverty that our certainties, our graspings, our hardnesses of heart can be perpetually undone.

Let him who elevates himself above humanity say, if he pleases, I never will compromise; but, let no one who is not above the frailties of our common nature disdain compromise.

Mother Teresa said: "The dying, the crippled, the mentally ill, the unwanted, the unloved - they are JESUS IN DISGUISE...

God has given us the tools and the resources to give hope to the hopeless. But unless we take those tools out of the closet, millions of innocent men, women, and children will continue to die without knowing that hope.

I certainly think that another Holocaust can happen again. It did already occur; think of Cambodia, Rwanda, and Bosnia.

You found during apartheid a strange occurrence from the white folks themselves. There were those who did make a choice to speak out and stand and be counted in the army of human beings who believed in justice. And then there are those who left.

I like to believe in the good in people. But we're all going to screw up from time to time. It just happens. It really is how our best growth occurs.

I am just sitting back and trying to take in the idea that the God who created everything around us, He didn't call the mountains or the forest or the ocean to spend eternity with Him, but He called us.

The thing is, I don't believe in most of what's done. The amount of financial and imaginative energy that's put into mediocrity is just amazing which I find to be fundamentally offensive as a human being.

If you only live in the world of the actor, and if you only live in the world of auditions, etc., then you don't really have a whole lot to offer when it comes to playing the humans that you're trying to audition for.

Following the devastating India Ocean tsunami of 2004, I founded Chefs for Humanity, modeled after Doctors Without Borders, but comprised of chefs. There wasn't anything out there like it, and there was a definite need for chefs to be able to offer assistance and aid.

I think a lot of people are getting more serious about how to do the most good, but there is no road map. I'm hoping I can offer an example.

You have nothing to offer if you're just some machine actress.

There are always great deals of humanity in the characters that have been offered to me.