Quotes About Humanity

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.

The discovery of a good wine is increasingly better for mankind than the discovery of a new star.

It is impossible to design a system so perfect that no one needs to be good.

Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.

There are always going to be jerks in the world . . . [but] there are more good people on this earth than bad people, and the good people watch out for each other and take care of each other.

Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.

We need literature because we wouldn't fully know ourselves without it. We need good literature to be fully human.

Human beings place their desires ahead of the collective good.

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

In a novel, if you're any good, you don't just have good people or bad people. You have complicated people. You have real people.

I want to feel that art is an utterance made in good faith by one human being to another.

I like guys who are understandable and good guys who are flawed.

The root of this possibility of doing good - that we all have - is in creation.

No sincere desire of doing good need make an enemy of a single human being; that philanthropy has surely a flaw in it which cannot sympathize with the oppressor equally as with the oppressed.

Human beings as a whole cannot be good for long before the bad creeps back in and poisons us again.

The line between good and evil is movable and it's permeable.

Every day in the year there comes some malice into the world, and where it comes from is no good place.

It is only by doing good to others that one attains to one's own good

I believe that, by and large, people are good and everybody you meet is more likely to surprise you in a positive way than in a negative way.

When a child is born, it's born with a heart of gold, but the way of this world can turn that heart cold. I'm still a good person, and I thank God for that - He's working with me on it.

I want to be a good human being. I'm doing my best, and I'm working at it.

There's a little good and bad in everyone. Everybody I've ever loved is very complicated.

Technologically we now have four [seven!] billion billionaires on board Spaceship Earth who are entirely unaware of their good fortune.

I believe from what I can see there is a good chance the shift will happen in humanity before it is too late.