Quotes About Humanity

The arts are the one thing that appeal right across all forms of politics, race, creed - everything.

Love is a universal, attractive element. And other than death, love is the one thing that binds all of humanity.

The movies I like to make are very rich and full of passion. Some people see me as an action director, but action is not the only thing in my movies. I always like to show human nature - something deep inside the heart.

Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with not just his own hands, but brains, imagination, heart maybe.

The only thing I can say is that I like people; I like human beings with their faults and with their strengths.

Good nature is the cheapest commodity in the world, and love is the only thing that will pay ten percent, to borrower and lender both.

Science has killed religion. There's no hope for the future with seven billion of us on the planet, and the only thing you can do is to laugh in the face of it all.

Sometimes I watch the broad comedies coming out of Hollywood and I think, 'You know, sex is a big part of people's lives, but is that really the only thing men are ever concerned about?' People are more complicated than they appear in film or television.

The problem with being human is that there's far too much responsibility, too much pressure and too many expectations placed on you to achieve.

Games are quite shy at talking about different things. Most are about facing hordes of monsters or saving the world or whatever; few games actually talk about the real world, about real people, about their relationship, their emotions, their feelings.

I realize how myself and other people have started to almost fool ourselves that it's more important to us and more real than the real world, the offline world, and we value looking at our phone and pixels on a screen more than connecting eye to eye with a human being, which is terrifying to me because we're becoming robots.

As a nation, it's time to put politics aside and do the right thing to protect innocent little babies.

In every aspect of life, including the economic dimension, we are always challenged to do the right thing. In many cases in the market system, which allows a great deal of latitude for human choice, people can get carried away to excess.

If you believe that people are basically good, and you remove obstacles, then they'll do the right thing by each other.

I think you've still got to try to be good, day-to-day. You see a granny, you hold the door open for her. You just try to do the right thing. I don't know if that makes you a saint or the greatest guy in the world, but trying is a start.

I don't do things to be rewarded. I help people because it's the right thing to do.

When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.

The human condition is endlessly fascinating to me, and the existential horrors of life are what drive our imaginations and theater in general.

Some of the greatest works of theater, from Chekov's work to modern playwrights', consist of just a few people in a room with no one leaving.

What interests me about life most is people, and the why of the world. That's what theatre looks at: it examines life, and gives it a cohesiveness that life doesn't have.

First there was the theatre of people and animals, then of people and the devil. Now we need the theatre of people and people.

Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a good book, kills reason its self.

HIV does not make people dangerous to know, so you can shake their hands and give them a hug: Heaven knows they need it.

Life is all about evolution. What looks like a mistake to others has been a milestone in my life. Even if people have betrayed me, even if my heart was broken, even if people misunderstood or judged me, I have learned from these incidents. We are human and we make mistakes, but learning from them is what makes the difference.