Quotes About Humanity

You need to have a heart to help others and separate yourself from your money.

I like writing about people who spend their time trying to help others for the greater good. That's what Americans are supposed to be about, right?

I want to go around the world just helping people.

The first word that always came into my head with Henry VI was 'empathy.' He doesn't have a barrier between what other people feel and what he feels.

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.

At the end of the day, I'm human. I'm English - I was born here. Of course I'm a different colour from you, but I'm still human. The main thing is, I'm human - like everyone else. Because I'm a different colour doesn't mean there is a difference.

The fact that we're all here in these bodies means that we're not perfected.

For a musician to be good, he has to have humanity and care about the other guy. And as for blues - in a sense, black people have kept this country alive and given us our entire musical heritage.

I think people are more than their heritage or their skin colour or their name or how they grew up.

Man, in the collective sense, is the hero of science. Man, in the collective sense, is the hero of Earth.

What is a hero without love for mankind.

You say to yourself: 'What could people, in all these countries, find in my books?' and yet I think we're all the same, anywhere. Everybody is a hero or a dramatic person in their own story if you just know where to look.

We can't constantly tell stories of heroes. We have to hear the other stories, too, about people in dire straits who make bad choices.

History contains heroes, but no one is a hero entirely, and no one is a hero for very long.

There's something so accessible about heroes who have faults.

I don't really like heroes who always behave heroically. That's not interesting to me.

I'm always much more interested in flawed heroes than in perfect ones.

There are those moments where you realize that your parents or your heroes are human and are fallible.

I think heroes who are not flawed are not believable.

I never knew Mother Teresa, but I admired her, especially in this day and age when there aren't many heroes.

I guess I'm always drawn to the underbelly of someone, really, as opposed to how heroic they are. I don't judge those sorts of people.

I wasn't heroic because I was never in danger.

If you don't get tired or bored then there is something wrong with you - you are not human. People maybe don't realize that. Players try to hide it and try to be the perfect role model, but it is not always so easy.

The highest revelation is that God is in every man.