Quotes About Humanity

The damage that the human body can survive these days is as awesome as it is horrible: crushing, burning, bombing, a burst blood vessel in the brain, a ruptured colon, a massive heart attack, rampaging infection. These conditions had once been uniformly fatal.

If somebody in a family is in service, the whole family is in service. I didn't know that. I didn't know our veterans were being deployed seven, eight, nine, 10 times. It's inhumane.

Whether it's via the monstrous or the paranormal, horror actually can really get at some of the most fundamental human questions.

We shouldn't be saying 'Save the planet'; we should be saying: 'Save viable conditions in which people can live.' That's what we're dealing with here.

This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man.

As every student in Philosophy 101 learns, nothing can force me to believe that anyone except me is conscious. This power to deny that other people have feelings is not just an academic exercise but an all-too-common vice, as we see in the long history of human cruelty.

Vice President Biden had recently launched the 'Cancer Moonshots', a campaign to finally eradicate cancer across humanity. He had lost his eldest son, Beau, in 2015, to brain cancer, and the ESPYs gave him a platform to raise awareness.

I think women can be as cruel as men, and men as tender as women, and vice versa.

It seems to me that most characters, in anything, are flawed in some way, just like most people. You look for the good in the flawed people and vice versa, and then try and make them appealing in some way.

The computer's there to serve the human being, not vice versa.

Nobody on this earth is perfect. Everybody has their flaws; everybody has their dark secrets and vices.

I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person's life. God is in everyone's life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else - God is in this person's life. You can - you must - try to seek God in every human life.

Government, as it was forced upon mankind by their vices, so has it commonly been the creature of their ignorance and mistake.

I definitely have a dark side of me that can be pretty vicious... as we all do.

Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.

I am not a victim of emotional conflicts. I am human.

History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor.

The highest hallmark of a civilized society is not the rapidity by which it exacts vengeance, but its ability to hold victim and victimizer in its compassionate heart.

Man is not the enemy here, but the fellow victim.

The idea of somebody suffering is really painful to every human. In our collective language, we all too often see those who are suffering as a victim to be pitied, to be feared, and even sometimes to be despised. I want to redirect that narrative.

From the point of view of art, the butcher and the victim are equal as people. You need to see the people.

On the question of comfort women, when my thought goes to these people, who have been victimized by human trafficking and gone through immeasurable pain and suffering beyond description, my heart aches. And on this point, my thought has not changed at all from previous prime ministers.

In India, innocent and poor children are victims of child labor.

In the concentration camps, we discovered this whole universe where everyone had his place. The killer came to kill, and the victims came to die.