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Quotes About Humanity

I tend to think that good and evil exist and that the quantity in each of us is unchangeable. The moral character of people is set, fixed until death.
~ Michel Houellebecq
Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste.
~ Bertolt Brecht
A good thing can't be cruel.
~ Charles Dickens
Let's use our stories to encourage listening to one another and to hear not just the good news, but also the pain that lies at the back of a lot of people's stories and histories.
~ Karen Armstrong
There is good and bad in everyone.
~ Paul McCartney
Good and evil do not exist for me any more. The fear of evil is merely a mass projection here and on Earth.
~ Hans Bender
I always wondered if the good people who send us bibles really think that hookworm and hunger are healed by scripture? Our patients are illiterate.
~ Abraham Verghese
I know that there is absolutely good in the world.
~ Amanda Schull
If you have a beating heart, that's good enough.
~ Ann Druyan
People everywhere have been very, very good to me, whether I'm with or without cameras.
~ Anthony Bourdain
There is no good war.
~ Bashar al-Assad
I try to stay away from certain stuff - I'm not a perfect human being. I try to represent myself as much as a good person could. I stay around the positive people.
~ Boi-1da
Weakness and corruption isn't in the world," Clary snapped. "It's in people. And it always will be. The world just needs good people to balance it out. And you're planning to kill them all.
~ Cassandra Clare
The human heart, as of course we all know is essentially good
~ Charles Bukowski
I think most people come toward things assuming everybody is going to be a good person. When you have an interaction where it doesn't go that way, it's very problematic and interesting and weird.
~ Craig Zobel
I'm a good person. I don't wish hateful things on people. I don't hate anybody. I know that I treat people right.
~ Curt Schilling
Be a good human being, a warmhearted, affectionate person. That is my fundamental belief.
~ Dalai Lama
As I said in one of my songs, we're still abolishing slavery, but nobody says it's a good thing. Nobody justifies it.
~ Dar Williams
People are complicated. People have secrets. It doesnt make them good people or bad people.
~ David Zayas
We are fundamentally good, and evil is an aberration.
~ Desmond Tutu
Though there are still many good people out there in the world, it seems that they're vastly outnumbered by the stupid, selfish, violent ones.
~ Donald Ray Pollock
The 'human situation,' in all its guises, is what good films are all about, and technical skill counts for nothing if it is used only to manufacture films which have little to do with humanity.
~ Edward Dmytryk
Good people were also capable of doing very bad things.
~ Elizabeth Chandler
I believe poor people are good people, except the ones that are mean . . .
~ Fannie Flagg