Quotes tagged ‘humanity’

“History teaches us that the cause of humanity is only advanced through strife. There’s no Renaissance without the Dark Ages.”

— Andrew Kreisberg, Greg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim, Phil Klemmer, Vandal Savage, Casper Crump, imdb.com

“There may come a day when our courage fails us, when we forsake our friendships and break the bonds of fellowship. But today is not that day. And perhaps in showing our humanity, we might just save it.”

— Keto Shimizu, Rip Hunter, Arthur Darvill, imdb.com

“I don’t ever remember a time when Earth, Mars and the Belt weren’t fighting. The sides change sometimes. What we think we’re fighting for. Who we tell ourselves are the good people. But it just seems we can’t ever stop fighting war after war after war. It’s part of being human. An ugly part, but I d…”

— Daniel Abraham, Ty Franck, Naren Shankar, Naomi Nagata, Dominique Tipper, imdb.com

“Optimism is for assholes and Earthers.”

— Hawk Ostby, Mark Fergus, Detective Josephus Miller, Thomas Jane, imdb.com

“Wrecking things is what Earthers do best.”

— Hawk Ostby, Mark Fergus, Jim Holden, Steven Strait, imdb.com

“You give a monkey a stick, inevitably he’ll beat another monkey to death with it.”

— Hawk Ostby, Mark Fergus, Sadavir Errinwright, Shawn Doyle, imdb.com

“Individuals can be divided and conquered, but symbols… Symbols endure.”

— Hallie Lambert, Commander Klaes Ashford, David Strathairn, imdb.com

“The way I see it, there’s only three kinds of people in this world. Bad ones, ones you follow, and ones you need to protect.”

— Naren Shankar, Amos Burton, Wes Chatham, imdb.com

“When we engage in dehumanizing rhetoric or promote dehumanizing images, we dimish our own humanity in the process.”

— Brené Brown, twitter.com

“Claire: You beast! Captain Jonathan Randall: You can do better than that. Claire: You fucking sadistic piece of shit! I should have slit your throat when you were lying on the ground at Fort William! Captain Jonathan Randall: Yes. I'm afraid you will come to regret that small act of humanity.”

— Ira Steven Behr, Claire Randall, Caitriona Balfe, imdb.com

“Killing a man affects the heart.”

— Steven Knight, C.I. Chester Campbell, Sam Neill, imdb.com

“We're still all-too-willing to project humanity on objects, and in doing so, we give them control. And that's a dangerous game to play because sometimes they refuse to give it back.”

— Tyler Hisel, Aaron Mahnke, Aaron Mahnke, imdb.com

“The many factors which divide us are actually much more superficial than those we share. Despite all of the things that differentiate us – race, language, religion, gender, wealth and so on – we are all equal concerning our fundamental humanity.”

— Dalai Lama, twitter.com

“People inflict pain on others in their selfish pursuit of happiness and satisfaction. Yet true happiness comes from a sense of brotherhood and sisterhood. We need to cultivate a sense of universal responsibility for one another and the planet we share.”

— Dalai Lama, twitter.com

“Brian: It's human nature. Dexter: I'm not human. Brian: No. You're just fucked up.”

— Clyde Phillips, Dexter Morgan, Michael C. Hall, imdb.com

“The willful taking of life represents the ultimate disconnect from humanity. It leaves you an outsider, forever looking in, searching for company to keep.”

— Daniel Cerone, Dexter Morgan, Michael C. Hall, imdb.com

“The more active targets we can offer the preacher, the more likely we are to overwhelm him with our faceless wave of humanity. Again, to clarify, I don’t say 'faceless' in a pejorative meaning so much as a practical sense, as it will be night and your faces will be indistinct and immaterial.”

— Olivia Dufault, Odin Quincannon, Jackie Earle Haley, imdb.com

“Humanity - it's not a state - it's a... it's a quality.”

— Jonathan Brackley, Sam Vincent, Leo Elster, Colin Morgan, imdb.com

“We were trying to do something good. We were being human beings.”

— Scott M. Gimple, Gareth, Andrew J. West, imdb.com

“In the end, he was talking about losing our humanity. He said this group was broken. The best way to honor him is to unbreak it. Set aside our differences and pull together, stop feeling sorry for ourselves and take control of our lives. Our safety our future. We're not broken. We're gonna prove him…”

— Glen Mazzara, Evan Reilly, Rick Grimes, Andrew Lincoln, imdb.com