Quotes About Humanity

We must see others' struggles as our own, and their success as our success, so we can speak to our common humanity.

I know some people that have gone through serious struggles. People that were close to me, and I've seen some terrible things about people who lose it. So I think that type of pain is something that's human and that, actually, can help us look at ourselves a little bit.

No matter where you come from, we all share the same struggles as human beings, and my beginning is no different.

What interests me are the complexities and contradictions and struggles and joys of messy human beings.

I think a lot of people relate to some of my characters' inner struggles.

Sherlock is a portrait of humanity - he takes nature's gift of thought and runs with it, bringing along all the human struggles, fears, and insecurities. He's the hero we could see ourselves being.

At the end of the day, we're all human beings, and people have their struggles and inner demons.

I have as many foibles, challenges, shortcomings and struggles as anybody else.

Look, I'm human. Sometimes I'm struggling, sometimes I'm hurting, sometimes I have feelings, sometimes I'm heartbroken. I try to do good in the world even when I'm very sad.

I will always be looking back at the things I've gone through, thinking of the struggling people I've seen.

I don't look at computers as opponents. For me it is much more interesting to beat humans.

I hope I'm saving lives. There are very few people in their careers that have the opportunity to do something to benefit mankind.

I think it is incumbent on all human beings to oppose injustice in every form.

It's always a collective group of people coming together to oppose those things which are fundamentally contrary to our basic humanity.

It felt very fresh to me, and it feels very contemporary - this idea that conflict's not being about good and evil and not necessarily being black and white. If you dig deep enough, you'll often find that people do things because they feel that they have to as opposed to because they are evil.

I've always liked to think ahead. Not stupid-far ahead. A hundred years doesn't interest me. But 20 years interests me, and more for what happens to humans as opposed to things.

I've been opposed to human cloning from the very beginning.

The Actors Fund is a human services organization, so our focus has been on caring for the entire human as opposed to dealing with the disease.

Art makes you see people as individual, unique human beings. Art, in that way, allows us to see each other in particulate, as opposed to in aggregate.

The big problem of our modern society is that we feel that we are separated from the nature. But it's just the opposite. We are interrelated and our DNA is the same. And only when human beings understand that, the nature will not be obstacle.

I look for the humanity in people, however big the politics or oppressive the situation may be, whether it's subsumed within a human being or between two human beings. I want to help us hold a mirror to ourselves.

I've never met a person who does not want a safer world, better medical care and education for their children, and peace with their neighbours. I just don't meet those people. What I meet, over and over again, as I travel around, is that the essential human condition is optimistic - in every one of these places.

Since I'm essentially optimistic, I can't imagine a world in which man is totally decimated or degraded.

On 'Overpowered,' there was a nostalgia for disco and early house music. But I'm a modernist and futurist as well. I do believe - and this is going to sound really pretentious, I know - that humanity will figure it out, so I'm optimistic about the future.