Quotes About Humanity

War is the enemy of all mankind.

Novels are about men and women and children and dogs, not politics.

Health care is a right, not a privilege.

Politics, differences of religion or race, all that fades away when we are confronted with the awesome power of nature, and we're reminded that all we have is each other.

I hate the fact that he's doing that, but the fact is that, you know what, that's a human being, though. He let his guard down one day to me, a friend.

"Politics" per se is absent from my writing but there is usually a moral (if ironic) compass.

Man is by nature a civic animal.

Only a person who perceives that all human beings are important can become a great leader.

Most people don't realize, I really have no faith in politics. I'm not a politician. If I thought you could change human hearts by laws, I would, but I don't.

This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

No one is any more or any less important than you are.

I like taking photographs, because I like life. And I like photographing people best of all, because most of all I love humanity.

I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet.

I hate race discrimination most intensely and in all its manifestations. I have fought it all during my life; I fight it now, and will do so until the end of my days.

Kindness, quite simply, is the rent we must pay for the space we occupy on this planet.

How we treat the vulnerable is how we define ourselves as a species.

Choice is the essence of what I believe it is to be human.

...choose to deal with inhumane situations in a humane way, we can turn the world around and create positive lessons for ourselves and for others.

He who demands mercy and shows none ruins the bridge over which he himself is to pass.

I know nothing grander, better exercise, better digestion, more positive proof of the past, the triumphant result of faith in human kind, than a well-contested American national election.

The world is good natured to people who are good natured.

Where you live in the world should not determine whether you live in the world.

God is man idealized.

To that there is an answer.