Quotes About Humanity

I prefer to be a good human being rather than a good character on screen.

Larger-than-life roles have never excited me. I'd rather play someone real who goes through obstacles and becomes a hero.

We have no rational evidence that there exists another world, but we have a clear feeling that man does not exist only to produce and to consume.

The Christian image of God is that of a rational being who believes in human progress, more fully revealing himself as humans gain the capacity to better understand.

The great advantage of being human is that we can employ rational thought and resolve to change our circumstances.

I think it's rational to assume the best in other people because most people are pretty decent.

As humans, we are not so rationalist as we think we are. I think our biggest quality is indeed that we are human, truly human: if our biggest quality would be rationality, we would lose our soul.

I'm not interested in constraining human beings like rats in a laboratory.

I know the fact that I was born means I have to die, so my only aim is to reach out and help someone along the way.

When I reached adulthood, even now, I could afford to belong to a country club. But I could never belong to a private club because of my experience as a child, because it would isolate me from the whole of humanity.

For the first time in human history, there seems to be a radical increase in the proportion reaching principled morality.

If you can see these people... as human beings and capable of change, there is hope. We should be willing to reach out. Imagine what could happen if we kept reaching out to people like Westboro members?

You are a human being, you do react. If you react to negativity, you also react to positivity.

I feel humanity is often displayed in how we react to our mistakes and the misdeeds committed against us.

Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history.

I don't feel that as human beings we have an obligation to dislike someone based on their beliefs, and it's OK to have a human reaction to someone even if you feel what they do is hideous and objectionable. You can still enjoy their company and find them interesting to be around.

I don't read many business books. I read good fiction. Business is about people, so my favorite business books are anything by Dickens.

I have a profound resistance to the idea that a reader could say, 'Oh, well, that's her story.' We should all be interested, no matter where we come from, or who our parents are. It's not my province; it's ours. These questions concern us all.

Readers, like writers, are essentially amoral. Arm's length will never do. We want to get closer.

The simultaneous reactions elicited all over the world by the reading of newspaper dispatches about the same events create, as it were, a common mental pulse beat for the whole of civilized mankind.

When the whole world reads your books, is there any other happiness for a writer? I am happy that my books are read in 57 languages. But I am focused on Istanbul not because of Istanbul but because of humanity. Everyone is the same in the end.

I don't think there is any such thing as a black writer or a white writer. Ultimately, there is someone whom one reads.

America is ready for intelligent talk. I am ready to bring some humanity to TV.

To my mind, a president should care about all people, and he didn't, which is why I will always feel Reagan lacked soul.