Quotes About Humanity

I think it's extremely difficult consistently being a decent human being.

There are people who don't understand some of the core aspects of being a decent human being.

We're all basically decent human beings so if 3,000 people are laughing at a joke then it's worth telling.

I have a very big conflict with the individualization of love. I feel like it's egotistical to just love one person when you can love so many of them. I feel so much love that I declare myself a lover of all.

Sufism states that deep within, everyone is the same.

I have a deep love for the Chinese people.

My experience is that the universal is the personal. If you can get past your navel-gazing into the deepest part of yourself as a writer, you find everyone - we're all there.

We can empathize as deeply as we can empathize.

I don't think there's anybody I write about who I don't care for deeply in some way, no matter what their behavior is.

To kill a man is not to defend a doctrine, but to kill a man.

It is unevolved to want to celebrate the architects and defenders of slavery.

I find myself bitter, defensive, and more misanthropic than I care to admit.

I have grown to understand that no matter where we come from, human beings, at heart, are the same. Defining ourselves based on race, religion, and ethnicity is like betraying that.

I always think about race as a part of one's identity, not the whole of one's identity. You don't want it to be the defining characteristic of a character. There has to be more.

I'm a mammal at the end. I breathe out and breathe in and eat. At the end, when we go to sleep, nobody lives this political definition. It's something we connect by and we try to understand each other by, but at the end, we know that this is not who we are.

I think by definition you need to have lived a little bit to write anything that's humanly true.

Democracy is a destiny of humanity which cannot be averted. It can be delayed but not defeated.

Not everyone is able to show courage, but human decency must be demanded of every person.

I don't take pleasure in anyone's demise, really.

I'm not a Democrat, I'm not a Republican-I'm an American, I'm a human.

If someone were lying on the road dying would it matter to you who came to save you? If it was a Democrat or a Republican, would it matter?

Some Republicans are good, and some Republicans are bad. Some Democrats are good, and some Democrats are bad. There are good police, and there are bad police. There are good black people and bad black people. There are good white people and bad white people.

The whole thing of sexually objectifying yourself is really demoralizing and degrading as a human being, and it's something that men have never had to do, and it's something that 'Hanna' has never had to do.

I will not deny health care to any single American.