Quotes About Humanity

Writing my novel 'The Narrow Road to the Deep North,' I came to conclude that great crimes like the Death Railway did not begin with the first beating or murder on that grim line of horror in 1943.

Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.

If we're going to achieve compassion in the machines and also feel safe with the machines, to raise machines with human-like values, we need to make them human-like by simulating, or perhaps eventually imitating, human beings in high accuracy from top to bottom.

The human community and individual people are more likely to hurt or undernourish children they think of as 'bodies' to be used. Cultures and people are more likely to raise children to be mere economic interns rather than fully developed humans if they see children as 'bodies' to be forced into certain economic and social molds.

It is impossible to deny that Christians and Muslims have a common agenda here: both faiths have at their heart the living image of a community raised up by God's call to reveal to the world what God's purpose is for humanity.

I'm interested in flawed protagonists. I was raised on them.

'Never again' is the rallying cry for all who believe that mankind must speak out against genocide.

I played Ram in 'Ramayan' for two years and I learnt to be a good human being from that character.

I miss people. I miss going anywhere and meeting a random person and saying 'Hi' and having a conversation about life. I love people.

There cannot be found in the animal kingdom a bat, or any other creature, so blind in its own range of circumstance and connection, as the greater majority of human beings are in the bosoms of their families.

My goal is to broaden and deepen the range of African-American characters on television, so I always try to show human beings.

Technology has brought us further than man could ever imagine, and it makes all information available. But it might not do the same exact thing that one human being asking another human being might do.

I knew Gandhi only as a freedom fighter. It is only after reading his autobiography that I realized what a man he was.

Bisexuality started a long, long time ago. You just have to support it. There's nothing wrong with it. We all bleed the same, we're all going one way in the end - six feet down. I support the gays 24/7.

God did not create gays and lesbians so He could have something to hate!

If we are endowed by our Creator with rights, then why shouldn't those be attainable by gays and lesbians?

It is not only the people of Gaza that can't afford having a fourth war - all the world cannot afford this.

I don't see gender when I look at the world.

I think of my gender as a part of my complex humanity.

You have to be respectful. Don't ask for respect if you are not respectful. It's not depending on your sexuality, your gender or the colour of your skin. It should be in the focus to live a respectful life.

I don't love to generalize, because I think every person has bad and good in them.

It seems that this situation is not restricted to science but is more generally human.

I love my ability to generate empathy and compassion within myself and others.

Children are born as emphatic and compassionate beings - so you don't have to teach them generosity, it's in their nature to be friendly.