Quotes About Humanity

My religious philosophy is kindness. Try to be kind. That's something worth achieving.

I have been shown so much kindness in my life, so for me to write books about good, kind people seems completely natural.

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

We need to see kindness and we need to see empathy and compassion. That's something we need to see in leadership as well.

There are many reasons for kindness, and religion is just one of them.

What I'm looking for in people now is kindness.

Kindness is a sort of love without being love.

'The Autobiography of Malcolm X.' I've used it to demonstrate racial attitudes to people who I thought needed a better understanding of all human beings. Malcolm was not a racist. He was not looking for revenge. He realized that kindness and goodness did not come from any one kind of person.

What you realize when you work in the philanthropic world is that people aren't just numbers: they are families with real needs and you need to make your judgments with kindness and thoughtfulness in order to serve those needs.

When I look into the crowd, I see young and old, black and white - it's amazing that I'm able to connect with so many different kinds of people.

It's kind of fun to hear that other people deal with the same kinds of issues that you do.

Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.

The oddest thing to me has been when people come up to me, and they don't say anything, and they just put their arms around me and hug and kiss me. They don't even say hello! They just freak out like they've seen a unicorn.

All the legislation in the world will not abolish kissing.

No matter how much we scorn it, kitsch is an integral part of the human condition.

There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.

I really enjoy the immediacy of the 'knife and gun clubs,' as they're so callously called. Emergency is a great place to learn about people.

The story of Ulysses and Agamemnon and Menelaus, of Jesus, of the Good Knight of Chaucer, lives in every one of us.

My mother, we were a very poor family. When I was a kid, we would be in our little room, and there would be a knock on the door almost every night with a hobo begging for food. Even though we didn't even have enough to eat, my mother always found something to give them.

I'm human. I have bad games, I have bad moments, but that's me. I cannot stay on the floor, knocked out. I have to keep going.

Scientific knowledge belongs to humanity.

When we label human beings and flatten them to just a splashy headline, we lose decency and the truth.

The need for health care doesn't come with a party label.

The thing I don't understand is why so often one hears discussion of the fruits of human labor as if it's all the creation of some alien race.