Quotes About Humanity

We must learn to exist together in peace and love people as they are. That is the only way humanity wins.

'Paris, Texas' gave me a chance to play compassion, and I'm spelling that with a capital C.

There is no price tag on an American life - whether it's in Florida, Texas, or Puerto Rico.

Nobody ever asks me why my characters don't text each other. Besides, as soon as you put something 'electronic' in a book, it's already out of date by the time it's published: everything will have changed. Human emotion, on the other hand, will never change.

I remember going to a son's friend's bar mitzvah, and the text that he chose to explicate was right at the beginning of Genesis. It was not about a fall from grace or a fall from perfection; it was about an awakening into consciousness, which is what it means to be human.

I think that we're reducing who we are as human beings to these cell phones and these devices; now we don't even want to pick up a telephone to talk - we just text.

If we talk about 'Groundhog Day' as a humanistic text - we only have one life, and there's no punishment or reward afterwards - then the wisdom is, just be kind because that will make you happy and the people around you happy.

Thailand was built on compassion.

No beauty shines brighter than that of a good heart.

Empathy, humanity and support for each other is more important than revenue, than growth.

It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has.

Being human always points, and is directed, to something or someone, other than oneself - be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter.

There are very few misanthropes, thank goodness!

A day does not go by when I am not in a line at a store or at a McDonald's, and someone will touch my hand, and they will say, 'Thank you.'

My mother had abandoned the family, so grandmother raised me. And she was instrumental in that she taught me that the world is a glorious place. She taught me to embrace humanity. And she'd say there's never an excuse for joy. And to be thankful.

I understand that I am in an extremely privileged position and I am deeply thankful for that but, at the end of the day, we are all human.

Thankfully, the time where you buy and sell other countries and populations is over.

No one even knows one percent of the fabulous history of Man; but thanks to history, we know about occurrences that go beyond the limits of the imaginable.

One of the things I've learned from 'Borgen' is that it's very easy to criticise people; 'I hate this politician, I hate what they do.' You are doing this right now with Margaret Thatcher, but sometimes it's hard to be a politician. I'm not defending Margaret Thatcher, but we believe our statesmen are also human beings.

The biggest challenge or biggest crisis knocking on the doors of humankind is fear and intolerance.

The first thing I am is a person. I am a woman. And I am part of a nation, the Indian nation. But people either relate to you as an Indian or as a woman. They relate to you as a category. A lot of people don't realize that I am not that different from everyone else.

With every character, the first thing I want to feel is empathy.

The first thing that I ever made was a documentary that I shot... in downtown L.A. about a group of homeless people.

The better life rests less on the prohibitions of the Ten Commandments and more on the parable of the Good Samaritan and the Golden Rule.