Quotes About Humanity

Humans are ridiculous. We're all pathetic strivers who will fall short. If you can accept that, it's optimistic because you can shoot for the moon and know you're never going to get there, and that's OK.

I believe people are fundamentally good and want to find things that make life better for themselves. There are social dynamics for people that work, and there are ones that are pathological. But beneath every 'no' lays a 'yes' that had never been broken. I put my life-faith in that.

Everything is pathology, except for indifference.

I'm drawn towards people who have a little pathos and a little dark side, and I feel the same towards fictional characters.

I'm attracted to pathos, because life is mostly pathos. I've had a lot of it in my life.

A deep appreciation for politics comes from empathy for our fellow human beings and their diverse paths through life.

Religion has played a big part in eliminating the nuance in humanity. People began to believe things before they knew them. It stopped people from listening and learning with the patience and love of the God they believe in.

Have you ever thought that war is a madhouse and that everyone in the war is a patient?

If there is a moment when it is possible to intervene in the chaotic life of a homeless person, it is when they turn up as an NHS patient.

Robots may cut down on infection and mean a consultant can see more patients, but wouldn't you rather meet the doctor than a machine?

I wanted to show people that doctors are humans, too. It's important for us to be around other people - that way, we can understand our patients better rather than just walking into a room, barking orders, and walking out.

Covid-19-affected patients cannot be orphaned.

I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.

War isn't just about bravery and courage and jingoism and patriotism. It's also fundamentally about grief. And the people that go and do the fighting and the dying are never the people who actually benefit from the fighting and the dying.

One of the things I like about the Internet is it does force us to realize we're all humans, and it forces us to look at the pattern of people, not one moment.

There is much that makes one pause in 'If This is a Man', the record of Levi's 11-month incarceration in Auschwitz, much one cannot read without needing to lay aside the book and inhale the breath of common air.

Pay attention to other people's nightmares because they might be contagious.

I think, collectively, we should be paying more attention to what is going on around us in the world among people who don't have the advantages that we have.

I think that people should be paying a lot more attention to other issues, rather than who's the top 10 this or... who's the sexiest or the most beautiful.

Indiscriminate attacks on civilians ought, under all circumstances, to be illegal in war as in peacetime.

We're coming to the peak, I think soon, before we have to come back to, like, humanity. Humanity needs to look, and it hasn't been looking for so long.

Peak TV has resulted in beautiful shows that have nothing in particular to tell us about humanity.

It's degrading or insulting to say somebody is a good person or has a soul. Each person has built this incredibly complex structure, and if you attribute it to a magical pearl in the middle of an oyster that makes you good, that's trivializing a person and keeps you from thinking of what's really happening.

I am for poetry that is admired by peasant and aristocrat alike.