Quotes About Humanity

Just because footballers earn a lot of money, it doesn't mean we're not human.

We tend to think of extremes of emotions as registering, for example, you have to cry or laugh or get angry. But for the most part, we find it difficult to read each other most of the time. If you walk through the street, most people are pretty difficult to read. But they're thinking inside.

He worked for the day when all people would be clothed in dignity.

I felt extremely concerned for the people of Punjab during the 1984 riots and militancy days.

Some people give themselves over to their most evil desires, and those people becomes evil. But in general, it's reductive to think of evil as something foreign and separate from the rest of us. Evil is part of everyone. We all have the capacity to commit evil acts.

Our foreign policy must be rooted in a love for all of humanity.

First and foremost we are Earthlings.

To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.

To understand somebody else as a human being, I think, is about as close to real forgiveness as one can get.

What I try to do is write about forgotten people, and, in a certain sense, we're all forgotten.

May our former president, who brought peace to millions, find it for himself.

My goal is to be able to fill out one of those forms that asks 'Who are you?' and be able to just put 'Human being,' you know?

I'm interested in how people all over the world array themselves and go forth in the morning to do whatever they have to do to make a living.

Things might change in the sense the world has progressed and we now have social media and other ways to bully each other, but at the heart of everything the problems are all still the same. Things I went through, my mum went through when she was a teenager and her mum went through when she was a teenager, and so on and so forth.

But I found out that bones with flesh are more interesting than bones without.

I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.

We all see that, today, man can destroy the foundation of his existence: his Earth.

I don't want to say that we are the world in that we are not distinct from each other. I want to say that the humanity that is our foundation is common, but my culture, my beliefs, my values, what makes me sing and what makes me happy and the language I speak in and the relationships I have in the world are distinctive.

When our founding fathers drafted the Constitution and Bill of Rights, black people weren't even considered human.

I like fractured characters with human follies.

Turing was very strong and driven and, at the same, so awkward and fragile.

I am frail like everyone else, and I take that into account when I talk about things.

When you write biographies, whether it's about Ben Franklin or Einstein, you discover something amazing: They are human.

What interests me most are the emotional lives of the people. If I don't have that, it's not worth doing, frankly.