Quotes About Humanity

With all the main characters that I write, it's always very important to me that they have good and bad aspects of their personality. It's important to me that they're complicated and that they're human.

We live in a big world. We are citizens of the world, and we make movies for everybody around the world. I think it's very important to understand what people's life experiences, good and bad, are.

People's character is their behaviour - we're all capable of good and evil.

If you do a good deed, don't expect anything back - the other person can still be a complete git.

I boil down people to 'good heart' or 'bad heart' - meaning they're basically good or basically not.

If you ask me to assess myself, I'm an okay actress and a good human being. But I'm not content.

Science fiction has done a really good job of scaring us into thinking that computers shouldn't get too smart, because as soon as they get really smart, they're going to take over the world and kill us, or something like that. But why would they do that?

When we lost Glen Campbell, we lost an American original. We also lost a really good man.

I never had a father, really. My great-grandmother raised me. But I was in this country where I got help from people that were not of my same color. So when I come out of the box, I don't come out of the box as racial. I look for good people, and people that will be like-minded and help me try to do good for other human beings.

I think most non-Christians who try to be good people are probably better Christians than Christians.

I look for good people and people that will be like-minded and help me try to do good for other human beings.

People generally are just really nice to each other. You know, the good people.

Good people do bad things.

I don't believe in good people and bad people.

I completely hold on to the idea that people are eager if not desperate to be told a good story.

If we want to share the message of the composers, to give good things back to humanity, we have to dig deep while we can.

I think we're all trying our hardest, and a lot of times we do bad things and need to do more good things. We need to be more caring, more forgiving, more loving.

I feel like people have a lot of the same good times and the same interests pretty much anywhere.

No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine that they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each other by.

Every man and every nation at one time or other becomes the weak. That's why nobody should tolerate persecution, let alone extermination, as a precedent. (p581)

Ogni cosa a questo mondo è innanzi tutto una questione morale e solo molto più tardi una questione politica.»

Sangue e popolo! Siamo franchi! Non erano anche questi dei concetti vani? In ogni età gli uomini si cospargono l'amaro cibo della vita con la droga di idee diverse, che lo rendono ancora più disgustoso

Lepsius vede il viso glaciale dell'uomo che ha superato ogni sentimentalità, il viso dell'uomo che sta di là dalla colpa e dai suoi rimorsi, vede il grazioso volto di precisione di una specie a lui sconosciuta ma che gli toglie il respiro, vede l'ingenuità inquietante, quasi perfino innocente, della perfetta empietà.

l'oppressione, l'orrore, i massacri erano terminati per sempre. Il mondo progredito non li avrebbe più tollerati.