Quotes About Humanity

When someone is mean to a dog, they are being cruel to a living being.

We are not by nature cruel.

I do not see why man should not be just as cruel as nature.

The law is cruel.

We all have excuses. We could all take all of the things that have happened to us over the course of our lives and use them as excuses for being cruel to others.

I think there's a lot of catastrophe in this world and a lot of cruelty and a lot of carelessness.

We have to be aware of our fragilities as human beings - when we see cruelty, to understand that in certain conditions, we could be cruel, too.

We aren't made to be worshipped as humans. I think that is why we see so many great artists crumble, because as humans, we are made to serve each other.

Every day, it gets harder and harder to even go outside. People start crying and stuff.

Race is a layer of being, but not a culmination.

Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable.

Cultural activity is what makes us human.

What we tend to do in our shows, especially with 'Love Is_,' is to show the humanity of characters so that people can see themselves, one, and so that other cultures can see that we have more in common than we have not in common.

The real hallmarks of humanity are: curiosity and an amazing ability to cooperate.

I have an inate curiosity about people.

I'm curious about people. That's what I've always done since I've been a small boy. I'm curious about others.

I will never be cynical again about people.

It can be actually quite cynical to go, 'Isn't it nice to be nice to people?'

I'm drawn to damaged, complicated characters.

Whatever happens to the great systems of nature will also be what happens to us.

When I am at a dinner table, I love to ask everybody, 'How long do you think our species might last?' I've read that the average age of a species, of any species, is about two million years. Is it possible we can have an average life span as a species? And do you picture us two million years more or a million and a half years, or 5,000?

I believe that people, regardless of their station in life, should be able to sit down at a table to a meal - inside away from the heat and cold, the rain and the snow.

You never know when the tables will turn, so I think we should all just be kind to one another. It's really as simple as that.

You must strive to multiply bread so that it suffices for the tables of mankind, and not rather favor an artificial control of birth, which would be irrational, in order to diminish the number of guests at the banquet of life.