Quotes About Humanity

None of us are perfect, and we all make mistakes. But the American people are a very forgiving people.

Man has now become an adjunct to perfect and carry forward these conquests.

We're trying to create a better world, not a perfect one. It cannot ever be perfect.

I'm happy to be human, and being human means we aren't perfect.

Perfect heroes are cool, but no one can really empathize or identify with them.

I think 'Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned' might be a perfect book.

We're all flawed people at the end of the day; I don't know any perfect people.

We don't fall in love with perfect people. We fall in love with complex ones.

You don't want to play a perfect person; no one cares about that.

To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.

It is too bad that the public expects from me, always, perfection which it is impossible for me always to attain. I am not a machine. I am a human being.

The need to be right can arise from a fear of being disrespected. Or it may come out of the fear of being seen as we really are: as flawed human beings who are perfectly imperfect and full of contradictions and confusions.

I think the actual art of expressing yourself is a very important part of being human. And an important part of being a performer is understanding what it's like to create yourself.

All of them - my father, mother, step-mother, and grandmother - were all wonderful actors and performers and they are an inspiration to me, both in their craft and in their humanity.

The most evocative thing to me is probably when a writer and a group of performers can collectively put together something compelling that asks the really simple question: 'How do we live?'

We're not performers, we're not models - it would not be enjoyable for humanity to see our features, but the robots are exciting to people.

Perhaps if all the peoples of the world understand what war really means, we would eliminate it.

In justice to human society it may perhaps be said of almost all the polities and civil institutions in the world, however imperfect, that they have been founded in and carried on with very considerable wisdom.

I wanted to make these people real, not like they were in a painting. Like these are people who don't know they're in a period movie. Those concerns are incredibly immediate.

I'm a human, we're going to go through hard times and hard periods of our life, it's not going to be an easy ride all the time. That's what we forget. On social media, it seems that way that living are living these idyllic lives and it's not. There's going to be bumps in the road, that's life.

For we are born in other's pain, and perish in our own.

Act so that the effects of your actions are compatible with the permanence of genuine human life.

Let us not forget: The Palestinians in Gaza are our permanent neighbors, and we are theirs.

I'm sure that everybody feels a kind of permanent anguish about what's going on in the world.