Quotes About Humanity

We need creativity. We need more poetry after Auschwitz.

I'm not an austere person.

Divinity lies in service to the poor.

America does not like people being not nice to dogs.

It's a travesty that there are people on this planet living on less than a dollar a day.

I'm drawn to the not-so-perfect character.

I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs.

We human beings do a lot of dumb things, and war is certainly the dumbest.

Each individual human being has a lot of stuff that nobody knows about. Nobody knows what anybody else is going through at any point in their lives.

Educate yourself, because this society is geared to have us hate each other. The longer we hate each other, the more we can't come together as humanity and look at the knuckleheads screwing it up for everybody.

I've just always loved books, and I love the idea that we're all just really made of stories. I do also like the idea that anyone can love books. Books don't care how educated you are or what you do for a living.

We have become frighteningly effective at altering nature.

The goal was always to do something that felt human but was 100 percent electronic.

We are not the only animal that mourns; apes do, and elephants, and dogs. Yet we are the only one that tortures.

I am 3.8 percent Neanderthal. One of my ancestors mated with a Neanderthal, and I am not embarrassed by that.

Embrace the humanity of everyone, especially those you don't understand.

Angry or not. It's a human emotion. But you can't walk around being angry all the time. What a dull person you'd have to be!

When I got back I found myself being very emotional about the time spent in Rwanda in a way that I hadn't been able to or allowed myself to be when we were there.

The fact of the matter is that when you're in pain emotionally about your life, the color of your skin does not matter.

I think everybody needs to be more empathetic.

Many really good films allow us to empathize with other lives.

I tend to empathize with people, just in general.

A love of reading shows empathy, the desire to understand how others live or act or might act - and why.

There's a power in empathy.