Quotes About Humanity

I used to read science fiction a lot, and I still like science fiction when it is a model of how we really are and to see ourselves from another perspective.

There's no point in sanitising your past. I believe everybody deserves to evolve and change their perspectives. To be human is an ongoing process.

I guess I am an optimist in a pessimist brain, if that makes any sense. I believe in the innate goodness of most people in this world, and yet I'm a damaged soul like many other people and have my own demons and things I struggle with.

A bright future may be what humanity aspires to achieve but it's far easier to talk about conflicts that play out in dark and pessimistic settings.

I'm not pessimistic about people in general, but only about the way they live.

I heard about the Holocaust before hearing the 'Cinderella' story or watching 'Peter Pan.'

Everything is possible; we just need to be hopeful and think of the world from a human perspective. The world is so small compared to the universe, so we shouldn't fight for petty things.

We're all humans; we all go through phases.

I think it's an amazing thing, the way people can change and open up. It shows how humanity is still alive in the world and how we can get better. We're the most adaptable, phenomenal machines ever created.

My greatest joy comes from creativity: from feeling that I have been able to identify a certain aspect of human nature and crystallise a phenomenon in words.

As a philanthropist, I try to help people take ownership. Everything I've done is rooted in the notion that every human being is born equally capable. What people lack is equal opportunity.

My goal is to work diligently to become the top philanthropist in the world.

If you see a philosopher determining all things by means of right reason, him you shall reverence: he is a heavenly being and not of this earth.

Our philosophy is that we care about people first.

You're seeing me develop, not only as a filmmaker if you've seen my earlier films, but you're seeing me kind of learn how to be a human, how my philosophy has evolved.

My basic philosophy is that no human being is a saint.

I'm old fashioned with my cell phone. I like that human contact and I think it's important.

It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness.

In almost every photograph I have ever made, there is something I would do to complete it. I take that to be the spirit hole or the deliberate mistake that's in a Navajo rug to not be godlike, but to be human.

I try and photograph people as they are. I do not want to hide anything. I want to bring across a personality, a humanity. It is not a case of model A or model B against a white background. I am interested in the person.

If a photographer cares about the people before the lens and is compassionate, much is given.

I'm not a war photographer. I've always dealt with the consequences of conflict.

I try to use whatever I know about photography to be of service to the people I'm photographing.

The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth.