13 William Saroyan Quotes on Humanity

William Saroyan quotes on humanity

9. It is impossible not to notice that our world is tormented by failure, hate, guilt, and fear.

27. I don't think my writing is sentimental, although it is a very sentimental thing to be a human being.

40. It is the heart of man that I am trying to imply in this work.

42. 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.

43. I see life as one life at one time, so many millions simultaneously, all over the earth.

45. I do not believe in races.

46. If I have any desire at all, it is to show the brotherhood of man.

53. 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.

55. There was a touch of anxiety in the whole human race about its future.

69. The whole world and every human being in it is everybody's business.

97. 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.

144. 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.

145. Love of the streets is the love out of which I see deeply I love God, how near I come to the truth.