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Quotes About Humanity

I am keen to serve one-sixth of the world's population where the miracles of science and technology would multiply manifold for betterment of mankind.
~ Pranav Mistry
I think 80 percent of the population are really great, caring people who will help you and tell you the truth. That's just the way it is. And I think 20 percent of the population are crooks and liars. It's just a fact.
~ Tom Hanks
It is true, there are many bad people; there are more of them than in the past, but that is because there are more people, meaning the population has tripled; there must be three times more bad people.
~ Bhumibol Adulyadej
I believe it is within our capacity that by the year 2051 that 51 percent of the human population will be flourishing. That is my charge.
~ Martin Seligman
In the years to come, the combination of climate change and population growth could have a devastating effect on the planet and, needless to say, on humanity.
~ Nathaniel Philbrick
Sometimes I want to convey something complex philosophically, and sometimes I just want to portray myself in a situation that I think other people have been in many times, but it hasn't been written about much.
~ Harvey Pekar
I always say, as an actress, I get to portray the human condition, but as an activist, I get to change the human condition.
~ Nazanin Boniadi
Even if I make fun of him, I try to portray him as a human being. Sometimes because he's the great Jean-Luc Godard, we see him as a concept.
~ Michel Hazanavicius
If you look at yourself as a star, you've already lost something in the portrayal of any human being.
~ Gene Hackman
The characters I've portrayed may outwardly be quite different from one another, but I've found that they're also intrinsically linked.
~ Forest Whitaker
I don't think I can play a role without falling in love with something about her; even the most despicable people who I have portrayed had some aspect of them which I found beautiful.
~ Rachel Miner
Most important, in portraying gay people... it's just like portraying anybody else.
~ Luke Macfarlane
Portraying as human the people you hear about on the news doing bad things is dangerous. But it's also necessary and important.
~ Domhnall Gleeson
Something 'Drag Race' is really good at is portraying us as artists but also human beings. And normal human beings don't know everything. They don't have all the answers.
~ Trixie Mattel
I think 'Pose' is unique in that it's not just a trans story - it's about family. It's about love. It's about friendship and acceptance and really deconstructing humanity, and the ethical side of that, with how we treat people who are different than us.
~ Indya Moore
RoboCop the first movie was fantastic. But even if there was no movie, the concept of RoboCop is brilliant, first because it lends itself to a lot of social criticism, but also because it poses a question, 'When do you lose your humanity?'
~ Jose Padilha
As a film actor, I connected to the people on the good and positive things. But, as a politician I feel the pain and miseries.
~ Jaya Prada
If there's a clear genocide somewhere, don't we really want to positively impact that kind of a situation? Isn't that what we're all about? Isn't that what we've always been about?
~ Gary Johnson
There is nothing called negative character. The negativity and positivity exists in all of us.
~ Nawazuddin Siddiqui
I find the attempt to find things out, which scientists are possessed by, to be as human as breathing, or feeding, or sex. And so the science has to be in the novels as science and not just as metaphors.
~ A. S. Byatt
I always want to talk about real life, not about material possessions. I've got to tell the story of the people for the people and not for celebrity or fame.
~ Slowthai
The positive aspects of modernity are to be acknowledged unreservedly: we are all grateful for the marvellous possibilities that it has opened up for mankind and for the progress in humanity that has been granted to us.
~ Pope Benedict XVI
No, I think the future of humanity will be like the past, we'll do what we've always done and there will still be human beings. Granted, there will always be people doing something different and there are a lot of possibilities.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Man is such an amazing animal, and the possibilities are infinite for each person.
~ Stellan Skarsgard