Quotes About Humanity

Nothing, nothing justifies terrorism.

The best way to perpetuate poverty is by spending on arms and military, and the best way to fight terrorism is by fighting the basic needs of humanity, because hunger and poverty perpetuate crime.

The dropping of bombs on people - isn't that terrorism?

I think terrorism is a cruel waste of life.

When we are reflecting on terrorism we can grieve for many things we do and have done.

'V-Wars' is a head-on collision of real-world science, terrorism, special forces action, ethics, politics and an exploration of what defines us as human.

I'm very much against war; I'm very much against terrorism of any kind. I find terrorism to be one of the most appalling things that can exist in society.

Very often when we talk about war, conflict or terrorism, we talk about it very politically. We forget that there are people involved.

Who is a terrorist? Is it not the person who has been persecuting human beings simply because they are black?

I'm trying to get the terrorist out of the bugaboo category and into the category of a fellow human being.

Terrorism doesn't have a border. Terrorists attack Mumbai, Peshawar, and also Paris.

What our leaders and pundits never let slip is that the terrorists - whatever else they might be - might also be rational human beings; which is to say that in their own minds they have a rational justification for their actions.

I hate all the terrorists in the world, whatever the purpose of their struggle. However, I support every active civil revolt against any occupation, and Israel, too, is among the despicable occupiers. Such revolt is both more just and more effective, and it does not extinguish one's spark of humanity.

I'll see myself as a person of worth on the day when terrorists are brought to justice.

'The Sword of Shannara' is about two brothers who find themselves on an epic quest to save humanity. It borrows from 'Lord of the Rings' but is still original in its own right. I read it in three days, then reread it, then went out and found every single book Terry Brooks ever wrote, and read all those.

The mountains seem to have conquered us long before we set foot on them, and they will remain long after our brief existence. This indomitable force of the mountains gives us humans a blank canvas on which to paint the drive of discovery and, in the process, test the limits of human performance.

Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.

I've learned that to expose yourself, to reveal yourself is a test of your humanness.

The only animals that we test on are the two of us and our kids.

I accept the Old Testament as more of an action movie: blood, car chases, evacuations, a lot of special effects, seas dividing, mass murder, adultery. The children of God are running amok, wayward. Maybe that's why they're so relatable.

The New Testament doesn't present Jesus as a single man to cover up his humanity. It presents him as a single man because... he was a single man.

As a species, we've always been interested in what happens when we're no longer around, all the way back to 'Revelations' in 'The New Testament.'

I've always thought, and it gets tested at times, that I have a great faith in the fundamental goodness of human beings.

Animal testing is needless, especially in cosmetics.