Quotes About Humanity

I try to stay a civilian, to live as a human, not as a poet.

A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties.

When Auden said his poetry didn't save one Jew from the gas chamber, he'd said it all.

The disasters of war can be infinitely eerie and poignant.

'Mission: Impossible' is fun. But for myself as an artist, I'm really more concerned with the human condition, the human experience, especially from an African American point of view.

I have this exercise where I force myself to look out from the flower's point of view at these great walloping humans coming down the path, and try, just try and feel it from their point of view because it's a different world to them, a fascinating hard one.

My point of view when I make a book or I make a movie is to see the humanistic point of view. The point of view of the daily life of normal people.

War... some people glamorise war and glorify war. It's not nice, from whatever point of view you come from.

I wanted to show life and to see ourselves and our behaviour through an outsider's eye... from the point of view of someone who knows nothing about being a human being... He doesn't have the feelings that the rest of us do.

The human race is facing all kinds of problems, and all we are doing is pointing fingers and saying, 'Your interpretation of the problem is different from my interpretations of the problem.'

At its best, what art does is, it points to who we as human beings and what we as human beings value. And if Black Lives Matter, they deserve to be in paintings.

It's probably cliche to say this, but in my experience, people are far more alike than they are dissimilar.

I know it sounds cliche, but to give back is important. Sometimes we're given so much, we need to do something for other people. I think that's really important.

Each time I free a child, I feel it is something closer to God.

'Cloud Atlas' is for everybody. The main character in the movie is humanity.

Everybody is a human being. We should be able to coexist with one another.

Life is a right, not collateral or casual.

That's the power of fiction, that it can take the collective and make it personal.

Anytime I look at a president, I don't care what color he is.

Evil looks like you and I. I know what evil looks like, and I know that it comes in all shades and colors.

Don't look at a person - look into the person. Heart is the hero, not the colour. I don't stand against or for any colour; I just believe in endorsing the idea of not endorsing any colour.

We're all people, no matter what colour.

I don't care a bit about people's race or skin colour.

I don't care one bit about people's race or skin colour.