Quotes About Humanity

Pu La was like a father figure to people of my generation. I thank him for the characters his literary works offered us. They personify full-fledged human beings and have always given me company.

I think that when we look at something that's well acted and a story that's well told, it allows us to be a mirror of who we are as human beings and as a culture, and offers a glimpse of where we're headed.

Just a look at the face of the officer kneeling on George Floyd's neck is indicative of the cause behind what he was doing. His face showed no concern.

My job is to advise politicians, elected officials, and government ministries of the best way to deal with important issues, both localized, national, and the grand challenges facing humanity.

The earth is yet the place of the domicile of man and all the offspring of the first man.

We are all one. We're not as separate as we oftentimes think.

In stories, those are the moments that hit me the most: when people really don't expect it, don't have it much in their lives, and suddenly, an act of kindness. It's like, 'Oh, God! Heartbreaking!'

You can't be a human and a guy and not connect with Pippin... I often feel like Pippin. I come offstage sometimes like 'Oh my God, I've got to do this next time! I've gotta go there. I'm going to make this choice.'

When you start at Bitly, you go through this emotional cycle, where first you go, 'Oh my God, this data is amazing.' But then you start looking at it, and you conclude that humanity is completely doomed. Because what people read is cats and Bieber and celebrity gossip and that stuff.

I've learned that it's OK to be flawed.

Love is - OK, it's 20 things, but it isn't 19. And I think that love reaches for something which is very, very deep in us and is very easily obscured, and is also very easily denied, which is the instinct towards the other person, other than toward the self.

Your characters can do the worst things on Earth - cut to a happy baby, it ends up being OK.

I think you have to find the humanity in the character and then the deterioration is a part of the process - the journey of the character. It's like playing King Lear. You can start off as a nice old man who finishes up crazy.

As I get older, people do come up to me just to give me a hug.

We forget some of the oldest medicines we have are love and compassion, and they can be deployed by everyone.

The Olympics are great, but they only truly mean something when the moments that come out of them are bigger than the individual sports.

Homophobia is not the monopoly of any one country, culture, or religion.

Shakespeare belongs to the whole of mankind, not just one country.

One of the things I believe in is a sense of human nature.

One of the things I wanted to introduce in The Same Sea beyond transcending the conflict, is the fact that deep down below all our secrets are the same.

One of the things I really like about Ford's films is how there is always a focus on the way characters live, and not just the male heroes.

One of the things that a president needs in the face of genocide is resolve.

I think, when I write, one of the things that I'm really attempting to do is I'm attempting to humanize my characters.

One of the things you learn as an actor is that human beings are capable of almost anything. I'm sort of in the business of illustrating that fact.