Quotes About Humanity

I don't like characters who are either good or bad. I just don't experience that in life, so my writing hasn't evolved that way.

Most athletes act all unhuman and you can't relate to them. I'm the exact opposite.

War is not an academic exercise.

It's very hard to accept that stoning still exists in the world today.

I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.

I don't really get inspired by landscapes that much, it's all people.

When we look at each other, we're the same family. You don't have to see black or Latino - we're one family. That's America.

You can't kill people if you're eating and laughing with them.

Even when I'm playing a lawyer or a doctor, I want to play a person. A human being.

I'm a lawyer. The right to life is important.

When a person becomes a legend, the very thing that makes them human and knowable is killed off, so it's like being killed over and over and over again, for all eternity.

Gay people are born everyday. You will never legislate that away.

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.

The ultimate lesson from my entire experience is you cannot prejudge human beings. You just can't. I don't care who they are, what their behavior, or what you've heard about. You have to be able to meet the person and talk with them, and even then, that's not even enough to prejudge them.

We do not accept lessons on rights or humanity from Mr. Macron.

We're not all nice, and there are a lot of levels of ambition and niceness.

Busking taught me so much on so many levels, not just about being a musician or writing songs - actually about growing up and being a human!

I am a social liberal.

All culture, all important culture, is always linked to how people express and experience being alive.

For me, literature is a way of enlarging myself by learning about people who are not like me.

With certain rapturous exceptions, literature is the moral life.

When I shoot a film, I take my camera and put it among the characters and let it show you their world, their problems, their happiness and the little things that matter to them.

I think everybody gets lonely sometimes. I don't know if people can ever understand how you can be in a room full of people and be lonely sometimes.

Losers are more like the rest of us. They make mistakes they can't take back.