Quotes About Humanity

In my personal life, I'm a comic novel. But then, so are we all, because we're human beings.

If you're going to condemn a people based on the actions of the worst of its ranks; take a good look at the worst of your people first and judge yourself.

Many people ask me what I have learned from all of the experiences in my life, and I say unhesitatingly: People are wonderful. It is true. People really are wonderful.

Of course I loved books more than people. Of course I valued "Jane Eyre" over the anonymous stranger...Of course all of Shakespeare was worth more than a human life.

For most people, life is nasty, brutish, and short; for me, it has simply been nasty and brutish.

It wasn't my choice to be an open book, but when people found out what my life was like when I was 14 or 15, I didn't deny it. I think the more imperfect you are, the more human you are.

And so do people pass out of one's life and all you can remember of them is their humanity, a poor fitful thing of no dominion, like your own.

The tragic sense of life: our heroic acceptance of the suffering of others.

If we are more affected by the ruin of a palace than by the conflagration of a cottage, our humanity must have formed a very erroneous estimate of the miseries of human life.

War can't give life, it can only take it away.

The extension of life beyond Earth is the most important thing we can do as a species.

Walk with the rich Walk with the poor Learn from everybody That's what life is for.

I'm not saying that I don't experience people in life as evil, but writing is not a place of alienation; writing is the place where we can try to be human.

We stand for global security and so we take care of everyone's life.

Life begins at conception, but allow early abortions.

I am capable of what every other human is capable of. This is one of the great lessons of war and life.

Life in itself is neither good nor evil, it is the place of good and evil, according to what you make it.

I agree, along with Carl Sagan, that we should eventually become a two planet species. Life is too precious to place on a single planet.

I have sacrificed my freedom and risked my life in order to expose the danger of nuclear weapons which threatens this whole region. I acted on behalf of all citizens and all of humanity.

And he realized... that fragile, mortal life wasn't just important to him. It was more important than his own.

I never want to possibly take another life in my hands.

Isn't everyone's life a mass of contradictions?

I admitted that I did not understand life. What I meant was that I am bewildered by human hearts and motivations, including my own.

Is one human? Or merely alive? Like a blade of grass equal to all existance in the moment it is torn? Yes. If pain is fundament, then a blade of grass can know all there is.