Quotes About Humanity

I think migration is a right, but it should be an option, not an obligation.

If there is an option to use a real human being and to have a chat with somebody and do your shopping that way, I do try and do that.

At some point, you realize your parents are human. They make the best decisions they can with the options available to them.

We care about this not being a world where 600 people have gotten on orbit; we want it to be 600,000.

We're going to stop looking at Earth from orbit because we don't like what we are seeing and the conclusions that leads us to? That's nonsense.

Just as I would not abide by a resolution ordering me to kill Salvadorans. I also cannot abide by a resolution that orders me to let them die.

I don't see anybody as either ordinary or extraordinary. I see them simply as people in front of my lens.

In our ordinary experiences with other people, we know that approaching each other in a machinelike way gets us into trouble.

The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.

I want to keep telling stories of ordinary people.

Living organically is my way of feeling connected to the earth and my own humanity. It's how I feel balanced and at peace with the planet.

Modern life is organised so that you benefit at the expense of the other, and the most extreme example of that is a camp.

History shows the power-grab in every religion once it gets organised. And then it's people making you do things that you don't agree with and setting the rules. But it does mean something to me to believe that we are not alone - the human animal is quite a scary thing, left on its own.

You don't need the iPhone: you have the most exquisite apparatus in the known universe sitting right in your head - the most complex organization of matter in the entire universe. And here are we, feeling a little depressed, feeling like we're not getting where we need to be, when really you might be exactly where you need to be.

Monumental achievements by humanity should be done by major organizations as much together as possible.

We keep thinking that the human is evolving. No, the human has evolved to its extent. What's happening now is the organization of humans: just like cells organize to form people, people are organizing to form humanity.

I don't see how you can separate human rights and the rights of all people, no matter what their sexual orientation is.

I think I've always had that orientation to try to understand the humanity behind people with whom I disagree.

I didn't want the record to be cold and I don't think it's cold at all. I felt it was very people oriented.

War was forced upon mankind in his original civil and social condition.

Emphasis on the common emotive or affective origins of music and words in the first cries of humankind undermines words.

When we look for the origins of all humanity today, let's not just look at Europe, because I think Africa was the cradle, the crucible that created us as Homo sapiens.

I don't see myself only as a member of the New Orleans community. I see myself as a part of the human community. I see myself as a part of the community that's trying to put things in the world that add value to people's lives.

My son, who is five, was adopted from Ethiopia. My daughter was adopted from Guatemala. Her parents died of typhoid and malaria. We got her from an orphanage. They are the lights of my life.