Quotes About Humanity

I mixed with a lot of peasants, workers, artists and writers, all deprived of work. That's when I understood human beings have an instinct toward knowledge.

Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.

I think we do people a great disservice by putting them on a pedestal and not allowing them to be human.

Don't put celebrities up on this pedestal. We are human beings.

We have abolished the death penalty for humans, so why should it continue for animals?

We must work to build a criminal-legal system that is deeply rooted in a love for humanity, which begins with ending the federal death penalty in our country.

I'm actually really opposed to the death penalty.

I'm pro-death penalty, but what I have not seen is anybody that would mock someone on death row.

I am against the death penalty.

I'm really trying to bring an end to the death penalty because it means so much to me.

There is no place for the death penalty in a just, humane society.

Hell is other people.

One thing I cannot stand is when people say, 'Hi, how are you?' and they don't wait to hear how I am. They're just going through the motions. I say to people: 'Keep it human. Keep it alive. Don't turn into a robot.' You have to hear what the other person is saying clearly.

I think that every character, no matter how different they may be perceived, they all have their beautiful moments. All humans do. All people do.

Of course, when I say that human nature is gentleness, it is not 100 percent so. Every human being has that nature, but there are many people acting against their nature, being false.

I'm 100 percent convinced that Pablo Escobar was a human being. And he was a very interesting one. For sure, he was a very, very, very mean and awful human being in many senses, but he wasn't an alien. He was a person. He had friends; people laughed at his jokes. And he was a very contradictory person as well.

No country is 100 percent free of human rights abuses.

I think - there's always going to be a percentage of people who maybe aren't as good as others.

It's my perception that more people are actively committed to human familyhood today, and to a holistic relationship with the natural universe, than at any other time in my 71 years.

Sometimes I think that when people become famous, there's a public perception that they are not human beings any more. They don't have feelings; they don't get hurt; you can act and say as you like about them.

So, we, as human beings, live in a very imprecise world. A world where our perceptions of reality are far more important than actual reality.

Nobody has a perfect anything. We don't have perfect lives. We're not perfect beings.

I think people who have faults are a lot more interesting than people who are perfect.

Man is never perfect nor contented.