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Quotes About Humanity

I realize more and more how instinctively pessimistic I am of all human kindness -- since I am always so bowled over by it -- and am never surprised by injustice, malice or personal attack.
~ Dawn Powell
Human kindness can be found in all groups, even those which as a whole it would be easy to condemn.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
The kindness of strangers and the support of the international community are truly the rays of hope we North Korean people need.
~ Lee Hyeon-seo
To rankling poison hast thou turned in me the milk of human kindness.
~ Friedrich Schiller
No act of kindness is wasted.
~ William Watson Purkey
Kindness is produced by kindness.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Human kindness is like a defective tap, the first gush may be impressive but the stream soon dries up.
~ P. D. James
More than machinery, we need humanity.
~ Charlie Chaplin
People just deserve to be treated with kindness.
~ Sophia Bush
Everything we now enjoy has been provided through the kindness of other beings, past or present.
~ Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
Kindness is a highly underrated quality.
~ Pam Ferris
Be kind, be decent, be generous, be tolerant, compassionate, and understanding. Be fast to praise, slow to judge. Remember, we're all human, and don't cast the first stone.
~ Allen Drury
The kind need kindness most of all.
~ Katharine Tynan
Kindness is something that I feel is leaving us a little bit - people are getting more self-involved.
~ Cobie Smulders
There is such a thing as raw, unalloyed, agendaless kindness.
~ David Foster Wallace
Instead of showing strangers kindness and giving them the benefit of the doubt, we increasingly show them only fear, and that is bad for us and them.
~ Julian Baggini
We none of us find as much kindness in this world as we should.
~ Arthur Golden
the role of the Do-Gooder is not what actors call a fat part.
~ Margaret Halsey
The good deed you do today, for a brother or sister in need will come back to you some day, for humanity's a circle in deed.
~ Robert Alan Aurthur
And now, farewell to kindness, humanity and gratitude... I have substituted myself for Providence in rewarding the good; may the God of vengeance now yield me His place to punish the wicked.
~ Alexandre Dumas
We should do good whenever we can and do kindness at all times, for at all times we can.
~ Joseph Joubert
What is pity but the vice of kindness.
~ Emile M. Cioran
It is higher and nobler to be kind.
~ Mark Twain
Even if people do not know what real kindness is, they nonetheless have it within them.
~ Confucius