Quotes About Humanity

I want a script to affect me in some way. I am usually drawn to character studies, scripts about real people and the world we live in not some fantasy.

Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape.

Fantasy remains a human right: we make in our measure and in our derivative mode, because we are made: and not only made, but made in the image and likeness of a Maker.

Humans need fantasy in order to be human.

A fantasy film is often improved by some kind of human reality.

As the flesh gets in the way of our ideals, we regulate ourselves unto enslavement and inhumanity.The human spirit then dies and the animal in us returns.

Are they even capable of love?

Lauren Lola, A Moment's Worth

My father said there were two kinds of people in the world: givers and takers. The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better.

What father ever gave up his son to death for the sake of his slave!

The Holy Father has acted as the Vicar of Christ and acted like Christ himself, who never refused to talk to anyone.

At night my father often heard sporadic gunfire mixed in with the sound of dogs howling. If the war came closer, soon there would be only minor difference between shooting a dog and shooting a man.

My father used to say that, through culture, humans effectively domesticated themselves.

Before you ignore another homeless person on the street, just remember that that could be someone's father or someone's mother and they have a story.

I never exploited my father's role in helping Jews avoid the concentration camps...

You can't be perfect. You can't be the perfect father. You can't be the perfect singer.

My father wasn't a militant racist. He was a human rights activist - he was about human beings, so let's just get away from going way back then.

Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed.

Fear is such a powerful emotion for humans that when we allow it to take us over, it drives compassion right out of our hearts.

The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.

One shouldn't be afraid of the humans. Well, I am not afraid of the humans, but of what is inhuman in them.

Never, never pin your whole faith on any human being: not if he is the best and wisest in the whole world. There are lots of nice things you can do with sand; but do not try building a house on it.

Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

Do not fear the face of man. Remember how small their anger will appear in eternity.