Quotes About Humanity

The element which is conveniently missing from today's Republican Party is the human one. People's hopes and realities become numbers and words, devoid of personality and easy to erase.

With a face like mine, I'm never going to play a character who conquers the universe, I'm going to play characters who are subject to forces bearing down on them. My career's based on how we are rather than how we wish we were - they get the good-looking boys in for that kind of role.

In the middle of everything evil, in an evil place, you can find goodness. Goodness. I'd even call it godliness.

Buckminster Fuller - he never lost faith in the goodness of humanity.

We're all human and we all goof. Do things that may be wrong, but do something.

'The Diary of Anne Frank' gets pretty dark toward the end. But there are some comic moments in the early part of the play. Anne was a goofball at times.

Any powerful technology has sauce for the goose and the gander... It's just an extension of humanity.

Governments are run by people. People can be bad.

Governments are different, and philosophies are different, but when it comes down to it, a schoolteacher is a schoolteacher is a schoolteacher. A butcher is a butcher is a butcher. We are people. And we are far more common than we ever imagine.

Killing is always wrong, even governments are not exceptions.

Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.

What does it take to be a great social chronicler? Perhaps one of the key attributes is an understanding of what it feels like to fall from grace.

We have to stop thinking of criminals as 'them' and admit to ourselves, 'There but for the grace of God go I.'

All humanity share a common future, and we must work to try and shape it together. This is our duty, and it is our responsibility to our children and grandchildren.

To ground a character in reality, you have to use shades of gray.

I care a great deal about humanity! I care. I really care.

I don't love great ideas. I love the little human being.

I thought 'I Am Legend' did a really great job of it, and 'Omega Man,' that concept of an empty world.

Football players have a great life, but we're only human.

There are a lot of great people everywhere. And there are also a lot of not so great people.

I'm interested in little people. 'The little, great people' is how I would put it, because suffering expands people.

The great thing about fiction is you can talk about things without being didactic about them, but hopefully forge a connection with people and an understanding about a shared humanity that tells its own story.

I want it to be the greatest thing I ever do: make good humans.

Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.