Quotes About Humanity

We're a compassionate nation.

We are a compassionate society.

If we are going to be compassionate, we have to have stricter border security and laws.

Britain is a compassionate nation.

There's a spiritual complement to any attempt at transposing a commitment to humanity through music or art.

I'm interested in characters that are complex people.

I like stories where there's a center that's mushy and complicated.

I hope people who read my books feel empathy for us and really see us as complicated people.

I love how complicated we are. We are complicated because of what we've had and lived.

I compose for the common man, for our epoch.

I would say I'm basically interested in human beings, and I don't really care whether they're men or women. I think my comprehension is about the same for both.

Some claim that computers will, by 2050, achieve human capabilities. Of course, in some respects they already have.

My giving birth was nothing when I think about all the people in Sri Lanka that have to give birth in a concentration camp.

Science fiction literature's focus is on ideas, the concept of change, and the impact on humanity. Those concepts are hard to capture on film. They work better in the mind.

But so far as countries are concerned, I don't go to a place to see what's there, but who is there.

I'm concerned about the unknowability of other people.

I don't consider the first-world concerns any less important than the third-world ones.

The sharecropper may lower his eyes, but not because he's less of a man. That's just a condition of society that such things exist.

It's an actor's job to play all the human conditions - light, dark, and medium.

No living being should have to endure conditions that you wouldn't put on your worst enemy.

At least my situation I can be like, look, I avoid physical confrontations, obviously not because I have an issue with physical violence, but I try to see the bigger picture of what it takes for humans to coincide with each other. We're all the same race.

I have never met anyone who wasn't confused inside.

As a society I think we are going to be much better off by having machines that can work in conjunction with humans to do things more efficiently and even better in some cases. That will 'enable humans to do things that they do better than machines.

If you show you're human and have something to say, people will connect with you.