Quotes About Humanity

People are interested in people. They buy biographies; they don't buy studies of presidencies.

In the studios days, the public's perception of movie stars was much different, because the stars were so much less exposed. This made them seem more special, more unearthly. Today they're no longer perceived as different - they've become human, so to speak.

The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.

Fiction is the study of the human condition under imagined circumstances.

The study of the human character opens at once a beautiful and a deformed picture of the soul.

There is no doubt: the study of man is just beginning, at the same time that his end is in sight.

Research such as ours is driven by the human imperative to understand where we are. It motivates the study of our positions in family, or in society, or on earth. The results may be termed geology, or sociology, or poetry.

Many artists use their own lives as a kind of case study to examine what it's like to be human.

What I get from my study of the Bible is that we're all in Christ, that we're all the same in God's eyes.

I'm not a reality TV star. I pride myself on witnessing, watching people, studying people, and being able to recreate that and create a human being.

Transsexuals are amazing. You have all the great stuff in one place.

We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.

If you want to look at the state of humans, you should look at the state of animals first. People are choosing whether or not they can feed an animal and their family. And every shelter coast-to-coast is stuffed.

If we want to fight people in the world, we should fight them with pillows - pillows stuffed with food, medicine, music... That would be so much cheaper than bombs.

When I met Sadhana, I thought it was perfect. Apart from the fact that she's a stunning woman, the reason why I love Sadhana is also because the kind of human being she is.

No one is perfect. Everybody does stupid things.

I would be stupid not to be on my own side. But I'm a human being, too. And I'm on the side of human beings, rather than on the side of crocodiles.

There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.

The system isn't stupid, but the people in it are.

You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.

Most of the real bad guys in the world are people like you and me; they're not stupid, and you can't smell their horns.

Stupid is a great force in human affairs.

My heart is broken in the face of the stupidity of my species.

Racism is endemic to the human condition, just as stupidity is. We will always have to be on guard against it. But now it is recognized as a scourge, as the crowning immorality of our age and our history.