Quotes About Humanity

I believe in the Golden Rule. I believe in practicing it.

To keep the Golden Rule we must put ourselves in other people's places, but to do that consists in and depends upon picturing ourselves in their places.

Sometimes the hardest thing to do is just to stay human.

I think to an extent every human being needs to be redeemed somewhat or at least needs to look at themselves and say, 'I've made mistakes, I'm off course, I need to change.' Which is probably the hardest thing for a human being to do, and maybe that's why it interests me so.

The hardest thing is to write about people. First and foremost, you have to encounter their humanity. That is the only way you can make them live as characters on the page.

Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.

Language is the most extraordinary invention in the history of humanity, the one which came before everything and which makes it possible to share everything.

The history of the world is the world's court of justice.

All history, and most especially the history of the 20th century, argues against placing ideas in the saddle and allowing them to ride mankind. Too often, they end up riding individual men and women into mass graves.

May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that 'faith' is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?

No country in the history of the world has ever contributed more to humankind and accomplished more for its people in so brief a period of time as Israel has done since its relatively recent rebirth in 1948.

Living in your genome is the history of our species.

I had this feeling that, somehow, we ought to be teaching not just the history of particular nations or particular regions, but the history of humanity.

It is a curious thing: man, the centre and creator of all science, is the only object which our science has not yet succeeded in including in a homogeneous representation of the universe. We know the history of his bones, but no ordered place has yet been found in nature for his reflective intelligence.

There are certainly people who have committed horrific, evil acts in the history of humanity. I don't think Aaron Burr's one of them.

For me, the human face is the most important subject of the cinema.

One of the most important things you learn from the Internet is that there is no 'them' out there. It's just an awful lot of 'us.'

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

The most important thing for me, when somebody asks me what I class as being a success, is being a decent human being.

The most important connection I can see between my faith and my work is that in the progress of my day, I try to be restrained and mindful of every person's humanity and of the overwhelming challenge of pride.

The most important and brave thing someone can do, I think, in the face of dehumanization, is to continue to assert their humanity.

One of the most important things for an actor is to observe humanity.

I have the luxury of being a little boy... To me, the most important thing in life is to be a human being. Second is acting.

I don't know about the rest of you, but I feel pressed and tense almost every day of my life about something or other. And I think it's the one thing, as I look into people's eyes, that I think I share with almost everybody.