Quotes About Humanity

The solution to all the problems of daily life is to cherish others.

No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing.

We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that's what being really human means.

My faith in humanity leads me to believe that people are looking for something more elevating than the sordid details of the intimate aspects of one's personal life.

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.

Therefore our choices need to be made carefully. Every single thing that one of us thinks says or does, impacts all the rest of humanity on one level or another.

If at times our actions seem to make life difficult for others, it is only because history has made life difficult for us all.

What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.

Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.

We ride through life on the beast within us. Beat the animal, but you can't make it think.

There is not one soul on this planet, whether it is a person living in Ethiopia, or in Florida, or in Canada, whose life is not as complex and as rich as your own.

The measure of a civilization is how it treats those at the dawn of life, the margins of life and the twilight of life.

If life has taught me one thing, it's that there are no villains. Only people, doing their best.

I'd say to anyone trying to break into the business: Don't just be interested in movies. Be interested in life. Be a person. Be in touch.

Jean Paul Sartre says in "No Exit" that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth.

The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world.

I am still suffering from my experience in Rwanda, I never know when I'm going to drive my car off a bridge, or just decide to take my life.

Kindness is wisdom. There is none in life But needs it and may learn.

We in the Western world suffer from too many categories and classes; we've forgotten that we all still have diapers on. We've separated music from life.

I am passionately opposed to capital punishment, and I have been all my life.

A life is not worth much of which it cannot be said, when it comes to its close, that it was helpful to humanity.

And sometimes I actually start to think human life is just as cheap to corporate America as animal life, so long as there are big profits to be made.

We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet; and amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog has made an alliance with us.

Life isn't one-dimensional. The world isn't simply divided into good versus evil. I think we're all capable of both.