Quotes About Humanity

I try to get that across in the work, to try to, if I'm lucky, to make this world a little bit better for all of us before I check out. And that's if I'm lucky, I don't always get to have that privilege but I try always.

We are driven by the belief that every person in this world matters and access to better health is a right, not a privilege.

I am paid to dive deeper into my own humanity and do that with other people in collaboration... so that, in and of itself, I just feel like is the greatest privilege in the world.

I don't think that coming from a privileged background makes you this monster who doesn't feel things.

I'm a believer in the ordinary person, that the ordinary person is just as important and has an equally unique perspective on the world as someone who is famous or perhaps more privileged.

I believe that art elevates humanity. I feel incredibly privileged to be part of that.

The heart of man will always be dark. There will always be evil people. The problem is that there is nothing we can humanly do to change them.

Man is still the greatest miracle and the greatest problem on this earth.

Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.

I'm still messed up and have all kinds of problems, just like anybody.

People all over the world have problems. And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.

I think there's always going to be a problem dealing with firearms, with knives. It's the animal we are that cause the problems.

I think people found out I'm just like anybody else. I've got problems, too.

You see, the thing about us humans is we overcomplicate things. To eat, our food manufacturing processes work on a huge scale, clearing land, rearing livestock, killing it, packaging it. Go big, only to shrink it all back down to small enough to shove in our mouths.

Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother.

Mere humans who root through their refrigerators at three o'clock in the morning can only produce writing that matches what they do. And that includes me.

It always has been and forever will be impossible for slavery or any kind or form of injustice to produce a great poet.

Man produces evil as a bee produces honey.

Does 'Jersey Shore' make me sad for humanity that this is what's passing for entertainment? Well, this is a business, and if that's what millions of people want to watch, I can't fault someone for producing it.

Humanity has experienced many revolutionary changes over the course of history: revolutions in agriculture, in science, industrial production, as well as numerous political revolutions. But these have all been limited to the external aspects of our individual and collective lives.

War is a profane thing.

How is it that you profess love for God but can't accept another human being?

There's a duality of a guy calling on God: 'Where are you when I need you?' and then, at the same time, 'God helps those who help themselves.' I think that contradiction does exist in all of us, those of faith and those who profess to have no faith.

People profess to have certain political positions, but their conservatism or liberalism is really the least interesting thing about them.