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Quotes About Humanity

When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them, as if their reason had left them.
~ Willa Cather
the main necessity on both sides of a revolution is kindness, which makes possible the most surprising things. To treat one's neighbor as oneself is the fundamental maxim for revolution.
~ Freya Stark
We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is kindness that makes one strong and brave; and so we are kind to our prisoners.
~ L. Frank Baum
The age of selfishness and greed is over. The age of kindness and generosity is underway.
~ Laurence Overmire
Be kind. Always if you have a choice, be kind.
~ Anne Rice
Kindness is the evidence of greatness. If anyone is glad that you are here, then you have not lived in vain.
~ Charles Fenno Hoffman
Nothing kinder than strangers. Nothing stranger than kindness.
~ Sara Paretsky
Kindness comes with no price.
~ Laurence Yep
Err in the direction of kindness.
~ George Saunders
All I'm saying is, kindness don't have no boundaries.
~ Kathryn Stockett, The Help
Always treat others with kindness, for it may be their last memory of you.
~ Courtney Stodden
It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind.
~ William Congreve
I count on the kindness of strangers.
~ Bill Murray
If we will have the kindness of others, we must endure their follies.
~ Samuel Johnson
The basis of all good human behavior is kindness.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Each heart holds the secret: 'Kindness' is the word.
~ John Boyle O'Reilly
I am a little bit of a softie, yes. Actually I don't think it's softness, I think it's kindness.
~ Len Goodman
Kindness is no common virtue. It is a rare gift.
~ David Samuels
One difference between savagery and civilization is a little courtesy. There's no telling what a lot of courtesy would do.
~ Cullen Hightower
What is kinder--to believe the best of people and burden them with a nobility beyond their endurance--or to see them as they are, and accept it because it makes them comfortable?
~ Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
Each time you say hello to a stranger, your heart acknowledges over and over again that we are all family.
~ Suzy Kassem
It's much easier to be cruel than one might think.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
If you can be kind to people, you will be a genius in this world.
~ Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason