Quotes About Humanity

We're so willing to dehumanize entire populations in order for us to conveniently go along with our lives. We know exactly one North Korean, for example. The rest of them, we don't know - but it makes it very easy to bomb North Korea if we pretend they're all one person. Literature makes it harder to dehumanize people in this way.

Pretending is the basis of civilised society, and it is sometimes necessary for all of us. Without it we are nothing more than a pack of snarling dogs.

The world is not the prettiest place in this planetary universe.

I'm usually pretty good about meeting people. I try to remember they are human, too!

I didn't want people to think I'm a dancer. I'm much more. I'm a human being.

I could watch 'There Will Be Blood' all day long, and Daniel Plainview is a terrible person - but he's still compelling to watch. That's what makes me want to engage and see what happens next.

I think we all have light and dark inside us.

I'm interested in people's darker side, the ones that aren't easy and well balanced. The cracks.

As long as one person lives in darkness then it seems to be a responsibility to tell other people.

Everybody has a lot of darkness in them because without that you're not a whole person.

We have darkness as human beings.

The abuse of civilians and combatants has existed since the dawn of time.

As a human being, you can't not connect to the chaos that exists around the world on a day-to-day, or things that you've seen on the news just here domestically.

Even if we are dead we help each other in some little way.

Dealing with the health of people is more important than political considerations.

In doing what I'm doing, you have to be sensitive to the fact that you're not dealing with numbers, you're dealing with people. And I will continue to be sensitive to that.

It's easy to point out the evil in other people, but that can be found in all of us. That selfishness, that is something we all have in us. Sometimes you are successful at dealing with it, and sometimes you are not.

When I go to the movies, I want to see a human being dealing with their lives. That's all I ask.

Never mind, dear, we're all made the same, though some more than others.

We do not celebrate the death of our enemies.

I think it's crucial that we remember the lives of people, not their deaths. Our deaths are not our lives.

For me, people are like the black boxes found in the debris of airplane crashes.

No other mammal is as deceitful as the human being.

The Commonwealth Games here are a model for what sport can, and should, be. It's an incredible environment and an amazing atmosphere. Without any doubt, they have lived up to the mantra of humanity, equality and decency.