Clint Smith Quotes

Coming to know one another based on a shared humanity through dialogue is the key to breaking down the walls of isolation and reversing the decline of life-to-life bonds among human beings.

Whatever the reason is, I am happiest when connecting with the human experience. It lets me know that I'm not alone in this world.

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.

I think, really, that the only way a person can open their heart to someone who is so much another is really by knowing them... whether that's in a classroom, or a soccer team, or a food pantry, or any of those things. I mean, we're kind of more alike than we are different.

It's difficult to have any animosity towards someone if you recognize that on so many levels they're exactly the same as you.

I am a human being; nothing human can be alien to me.

We have much more in common with other people than we have apart.

We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are more alike than we are unalike.

A lot of the things that we do in life are to find connection.

People are so much more interested in making connections, and finding common ground, and sharing experiences than sometimes their governments are.

Kindness is the connection that links us all together and strengthens the bonds within our communities, neighborhoods, and families.

I'm human, you're human, let me greet your humanness. Let's be people together for a while.

Whatever impatience we may feel towards our neighbor, and whatever indignation our race may rouse in us, we are chained one to another, and, companions in labour and misfortune, have everything to lose by mutual recrimination and reproach. Let us be silent as to each other's weakness, helpful, tolerant, many, tender towards each other! Or, if we cannot feel tenderness, may we at least feel pity!

Cause everbody care. Black, white, deep down we all do.

It's all about hope, kindness and a connection with one another.

I try not to put messages in my songs. My only message is man's communication with his fellow man. I want to narrow the gap of strangeness and alienation.

There is so much of good in human nature that men grow to like each other upon better acquaintance, and this points to another way in which we may strive to promote the peace of the world.

What a powerful thing to know: That one's own desires are mappable onto strangers; that what one finds in oneself will most certainly be found in The Other.

I'm a humanist at heart: at the end of the day, we are all human beings.

We all need each other.

I just think that the only way we come to ourselves is through each other.

All of us are much more human than otherwise.

The only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness.

It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.

The real business of life is trying to understand each other.