Quotes About Humanity

I don't know what life was like 1,000 years ago, but I imagine there was the same struggle: people trying to connect with each other.

I tell stories about people audiences might think they have nothing in common with, then they emotionally connect with them and find they're not different at all.

The reason we like acting is connecting to other people.

I guess I always view movies as, in their best form, connecting us more to each other and to humanity.

There's something about just connecting with people in their specific place and also finding that they're human just like me.

Probably above all other things, I am interested as a writer in making a connection, interested in the parts of all of us that connect.

I'm trying to make connections. That's all we do as human beings on the planet, isn't it? We try to connect.

I feel like anytime you write about people in an honest way, you can find connections to any issue you would like.

Ye are brothers, ye are men, and we conquer but to save.

We are a country with a conscience.

Some might argue humans are hard-wired to fight. I don't agree: we are conscious beings who have the capacity to make decisions.

When you dehumanize a group, there's lasting consequences because they know that they're being dehumanized.

The more rarefied a life you live, the easier it is to think that those who don't share it could be demonised. To find the common humanity becomes more of a struggle the more you surround yourself with nice things.

If you live in a big city, and you're surrounded by people, you're way more in touch with humanity than you would be if you lived in a very remote area and just spent all day long on the computer.

The risk of the Holocaust is not that it will be forgotten, but that it will be embalmed and surrounded by monuments and used to absolve all future sins.

Without even knowing why, we believe that to learn how to be human - which we have many years to do, for human beings have longer childhoods than any other species, a feature that to biologists and philosophers alike is one of our race's distinguishing characteristics - children must be surrounded by animal imagery.

We are surrounded every day by countless acts of immeasurable kindness and goodwill.

My earliest recollections are of the teeming East Side where I was born. This Hester Street and its surrounding streets were the most densely populated of any city on Earth; and looking back at it, I realize what I owe to its unique and crowded humanity.

What makes us human is that we ask questions. All the animals have interests, instincts and conceptions. All the animals frame for themselves an idea of the world in which they live. But we alone question our surroundings.

The company culture is about being human, being good to other people. We recently did a survey with our drivers. 48 out of 50 said that they preferred driving with Lyft because they said that passengers were friendlier.

I'm absolutely positive about human survival. We will continue to develop our civilisation and expand not just on Earth, but also across the solar system, the galaxy, even the entire universe.

My father so appropriately put it that we are certainly the only animal that makes conscious choices that are bad for our survival as a species.

For me, empathy is an existential question - it's about the survival of the human race. That is, it's imperative for us to overcome the challenges we face.

Safeguarding our common home is not only essential to protecting endangered species and preserving old-growth forests, it is also paramount to ending poverty, fighting injustice, and protecting the long-term survival of humankind and of our faith.