The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape. – Samuel Johnson
What I’m trying to say is the Holocaust was a horrific crime against humanity and frankly, I would never want to see that repeated. – Paul LePage
Religion is not theory – it is life. It is not intellectual conviction – it is divine humanity, and nothing else. – Robert Green Ingersoll
I try to be as honest about what I see and to speak rather than be silent, especially if it means I can save lives, or serve humanity. – Sandra Cisneros
We believe with all the strength of our spirit that mankind has a supreme, primary and irreplaceable need which can be satisfied only through Jesus Christ, the first-born among men, the head of the new humanity, in whom each individual reaches full self-realization. – Pope Paul VI
Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat. – Ralph Ellison
See, Ebola, like all threats to humanity, it’s fueled by mistrust and distraction and division. When we build barriers amongst ourselves, and we fight amongst ourselves, the virus thrives. But unlike all threats to humanity, Ebola is one where we’re actually all the same. We’re all in this fight together. – Pardis Sabeti
What’s been lost is allowing cinema to be artful, playful, to have ambiguity, to have form, to be contemplative, to wish to be art. This slightly timeless approach to reality, like Chekhov in literature, where you look at all humanity and try to find what’s transcendent. – Pawel Pawlikowski
I meet human beings who are flawed, who are mentally ill and have enormous problems, but I don’t think I’ve ever met someone who was a totally dark energy that had no humanity or sense of love or affection for anything in their life. That’s very rare. – Richard Gere
In a world of democracies, the most deserving basis of national differences is that the different states of the world should represent a form of moral specialisation within humanity. – Roberto Unger
The only places where I have found that simple human dignity, that respect for the other man, and the gracious feel of tolerance and humanity have not been either among the heroes of the class-struggle or the ‘thinking men’ but among my simple ‘backward’ people. – Peter Abrahams
There are those moments when you shake someone’s hand, have a conversation with someone, and suddenly your all bound together because you share your humanity in one simple moment. – Ralph Fiennes
I have an idealistic view of science as a liberalising and progressive force for humanity. – Paul Nurse
Creation’s highest aim and most sublime result is belief in God. The most exalted rank of humanity is knowledge of God. – Said Nursi
There must be a rule of thumb in pop-culture archaeology that states that the allure of any topic is inversely related to its assigned importance in the affairs of humanity. The more trivial the subject, the dearer it is to most of its partisans and the more worthy of scholarship. The smallest things in life often mean the most to people. – Paul Di Filippo
‘Ida’ doesn’t set out to explain history. That’s not what it’s about. The story is focused on very concrete and complex characters who are full of humanity with all its paradoxes. They’re not pawns used to illustrate some version of history or an ideology. – Pawel Pawlikowski
No matter what problem you encounter, whether it’s a grand challenge for humanity or a personal problem of your own, there’s an idea out there that can overcome it. And you can find that idea. – Ray Kurzweil
I will not do a role that I don’t think I can do, that I’m not interested in, where there’s no humanity, that doesn’t have any kind of handle for me at all because I know I’ll just stink the joint up. – Ron Perlman
Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence, even if only for an instant. – Oscar Niemeyer
I do think that the strongest character is somebody that you can connect with to your personal self, or at least find the humanity in both of you and start from there. – Ruthie Ann Miles
I have an idea for a Godzilla movie that I’ve always wanted to do. The whole idea of Godzilla’s role in Tokyo, where he’s always battling these other monsters, saving humanity time and again – wouldn’t Godzilla become God? It would be called ‘Living Under the Rule of Godzilla.’ – Quentin Tarantino
With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents. – Omar N. Bradley
What we hold in our heads – our memory, our feelings, our thoughts, our sense of our own history – is the sum of our humanity. – Richard Eyre
When you have a crime against humanity that is so awesome in scale and death, it is more than permissible to look around and say, who recently has been declaring war on the United States? Of course, the compass points straight to bin Laden. – Robert Fisk
There are always great deals of humanity in the characters that have been offered to me. – Ron Perlman
In real life, I don’t fall in love with the guy who wines and dines me, I fall in love with the flaws and the humanity. – Rosemarie DeWitt
Our technology, our machines, is part of our humanity. We created them to extend ourselves, and that is what is unique about human beings. – Ray Kurzweil