Quotes About Humanity

When people say there is too much violence in my books, what they are saying is there is too much reality in life.

I have no doubt about it. I think this is a part of the nature of man, a desire for freedom, for dignified life.

What I need is to express my passion for life... It's movement I'm interested in, the life in me, the life in humanity.

Life is rough for a lot of people. Some people live in greater material circumstances than others, but life is rough for everybody.

All working, practical political systems, even those professing to originate in moral grandeur, are based upon and operate by contempt of human life and the individual fate.

It is a sobering thought that Gomer Pyle and the Beverly Hillbillies may be among our chief interstellar emissaries.

I am very lucky, because for the most part people are very nice to me, and I am still able to go about my life and ride the subway and all that.

It's a nice feeling to go out in the world and look for excellence - the best in man. My subject is very valid. It's about people, and about life.

What plethora of material goods can possibly atone for a waking life so humanly belittling, if not degrading, as the push-button tasks left to human performers?

We are spectacular splendid manifestations of life. We have language. We have affection. And finally, and perhaps best of all, we have music.

All we really want in life is to connect to other human beings, and when you desperately want to connect physically to one specific human being and you can't? That's something I find compelling.

I cannot in all conscience agree to anyone being sent to the gallows. God alone can take life because He alone gives it . . .

The time is fast coming when politicians will cease to fear the religion of humanity and humanitarians will find entrance into political life indispensable for full service.

The Old Testament does, in fact, seem to make a distinction between the life of a child and the life of a fetus.

If we are to access the resources of life, we must listen with our common heart to the cries of the world.

Life becomes fully understandable only the moment we realise that we are all mad.

Art's true purpose is to be human as opposed to some rarefied activity set away from real life. I think art should help you to navigate the real challenges of being a human being.

One life stamps and influences another, which in turn stamps and influences another, on and on, until the soul of human experience breathes on in generations we'll never meet.

It is only possible through the fact that sympathy for the general life and suffering of mankind is very weakly developed in the individual.

Human life is inexplicable, and still without meaning: a fool may decide its fate.

The connecting principle, the force that expands our consciousness beyond ourselves, appears to be love.

From this perspective, the earth would no longer be simply a marketplace, its lands and resources divided among competing human groups.

Humans are just another form. You're another lifeform of energy. You think you're independent of life, and you can't be that way. You're causing death. You're causing a lot of death and it's your own. And we're trying to help you, but we came and we were killed by many of you.

We need to learn that even though "we look different" and "we think different . . . we're all life.