William Saroyan Quotes on Humanity
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It is impossible not to notice that our world is tormented by failure, hate, guilt, and fear.
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I don't think my writing is sentimental, although it is a very sentimental thing to be a human being.
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It is the heart of man that I am trying to imply in this work.
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Babies who have not yet been taught to speak any language are the only race of the earth, the race of man: all the rest is pretence, what we call civilization, hatred, fear, desire for strength.
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I see life as one life at one time, so many millions simultaneously, all over the earth.
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I do not believe in races.
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If I have any desire at all, it is to show the brotherhood of man.
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I love Armenian people - all of them. I love them because they are a part of the enormous human race, which of course I find simultaneously beautiful and vulnerable.
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There was a touch of anxiety in the whole human race about its future.
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The whole world and every human being in it is everybody's business.
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Wars, for us, are either inevitable, or created. Whatever they are, they should not wholly vitiate art. What art needs is greater men, and what politics needs is better men.
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In the most commonplace, tiresome, ridiculous, malicious, coarse, crude, or even crooked people or events I had to seek out rare things, good things, comic things, and I did so.
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Love of the streets is the love out of which I see deeply I love God, how near I come to the truth.