Quotes About Humanity

The Eternal has done a temporal act, the Infinite has become a finite fact. "For us and for our salvation he came down from heaven.

the entire human race is heir to what John Henry Newman called a "vast primordial catastrophe," and that only a stronger power from outside ourselves can repair the breach.

the two poles of Christ's exalted divinity and his suffering humanity as explicitly as does Hebrews. The result of this undertaking — the salvation of humanity — from out of the inner being of the Holy Trinity is, incredibly, that the hearts and minds of sinful human beings should be eternally perfected and at rest in the near presence of the heavenly Father.

Writing or talking about famine and the world's response to it is not very easy.

I think humanitarians really feel very awkward and embarrassed about marketing, but it really doesn't matter whether a shampoo gets better marketing. It does matter when a famine or a huge crisis is - oh - well, I hate to use the word 'marketed' better but, you know, is publicized in a way that will be more effective.

Every time we watch a little story play out inside our head, we're fantasizing, whether we realize it or not, and it seems to me that, though succumbing to fantasies about other people can be dangerous or self-defeating, the act of fantasizing itself is also an essential part of being human, of being capable of both abstraction and empathy.

I feel like there's something interesting to learn from anyone's story, no matter their place in society. I think we've gotten really far away from that - we're in such a celebrity-obsessed culture.

I'm just totally fascinated by people.

Nobody's born evil. I guess that's why we're drawn to violence. We're fascinated by it, but there's a moral in how you examine it.

I was just fascinated with how everyone else in the world lived, and I was interested in telling their story.

I'm still really fascinated with characters and people and telling their stories.

I'm so fascinated by how people destroy each other and love each other.

I'm fascinated by technology and how it is changing the way we live and view our humanity.

That's what sort of fascinates me - what's funny as well as what's sad.

There's so many different people that I'm fascinated by. Different kinds of characters that I meet in, like, everyday life, that I'm like, 'I don't know how you exist. Like, you're so fascinating.'

It's the murkiness of humanity that I find endlessly fascinating.

Though 'Fat City' was written long before cellphones or the Internet, its human apparatus is state of the art.

Today, as never before, the fates of men are so intimately linked to one another that a disaster for one is a disaster for everybody.

I can't stand people who say they've got 'Africa fatigue.'

Every man has his faults; I have and so have you - you will allow me to say so!

I like characters who have faults. I'm drawn to darker people.

We in the media are just people with all of people's faults.

I could find faults with all my albums because that's just a part of being an artist - it's hard being a human being, isn't it?

We don't discount that people's fears are their fears.