Quotes about Humanity
I'd rather have Ben Affleck feeling something than twenty minutes of punching CGI Zod. You want moments that resonate with your audience.
— Chris Claremont
I did not know that mankind was suffering for want of gold.
— Henry David Thoreau
A great painting or symphony or play, doesn't diminish us, but enlarges us, and we, too, want to make our own cry of affirmation to the power of Creation behind the Universe.
— Madeleine L'Engle
One of the problems with being relatively conscious and human, is that you want to help everybody.
— Moby
When a poor person dies I want then to die in the arms of somebody who loves them. I want them to be able to look for the last time into the eyes of somebody who cares for them
— Mother Teresa
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
We must not be surprised when we hear of murders, killings, of wars, or of hatred...If a mother can kill her own child, what is left but for us to kill each other?
— Mother Teresa
I never justify, sustain, or in any way or to any extent uphold this cruel, heartless, aimless unnecessary war.
— Franklin Pierce
Man is the only animal that deals in that atorcity of atrocities, War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind.
— Mark Twain
The only way to eliminate war is to love our children more than we hate our enemies.
— Golda Meir
If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.
— Abraham Lincoln
I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family feud.
— Helen Keller