Top 100 Quotes About Human Kindness
#1. Yet do I fear thy nature;
It is too full o' the milk of human kindness
To catch the nearest way:
William Shakespeare
#2. I think that if you were somehow able to measure the weight of human kindness, it would have weighed more on 9/11 than it ever had.
David Levithan
#3. They're a symbol of the whole town, pretending to fight, love, weep and laugh all the time - and they're phonies, all of them. And I head the list ... their phony hearts were dripping with the milk of human kindness.
Ben Hecht
#4. The light enkindled by human kindness and love can give human life a brilliance and luster that will never be extinguished.
Steve Centola
#5. Human kindness can be found in all groups, even those which as a whole it would be easy to condemn.
Viktor E. Frankl
#6. Should we act on our unseen fears before the virtue of human kindness? Who's given us more, the Light's faith or that stranger? And if you choose to reject generosity, then what standing do we have left in this world, or in the hereafter, for that matter?
Janny Wurts
#7. We have a duty to look after each other. If we lose control of our government, then we lose our ability to dispense justice and human kindness. Our first priority today, then, is to defeat utterly those forces of greed and corruption that have come between us and our self-governance.
Doris "Granny D" Haddock
#8. To rankling poison hast thou turned in me the milk of human kindness.
Friedrich Schiller
#9. There are people who have lost every trace of human kindness.
Billy Joel
#10. Human history is not the battle of good struggling to overcome evil. It is a battle fought by a great evil struggling to crush a small kernel of human kindness.
Vasily Grossman
#11. The milk of human kindness should be brought fresh to the table every morning.
Austin O'Malley
#12. How Long Before Monsanto Try to Patent The Milk of Human Kindness
Dean Cavanagh
#13. As for the Mormons one meets, however their doctrines be regarded, they will be found as rich in human kindness as any people in all our broad land, while the dark memories that cloud their earlier history will vanish from the mind as completely as when we bathe in the fountain azure of the Sierra.
John Muir
#14. My philosophy is that the most important aspect of any religion should be human kindness. And to try to ease the suffering of others. To try to bring light and love into the lives of mankind.
Steven Seagal
#15. Love's true nature remains forever beyond the grasp of all our faculties. It is far greater than any feeling or emotion and completely surpasses any act of human kindness ... The realization of love always remains mysterious.
Gerald May
#16. The hottest coals of fire ever heaped upon the head of one who has wronged you are the coals of human kindness.
Sterling W. Sill
#17. Human kindness is deeply subversive to totalitarian creeds, which seek to thwart all compassion toward those deemed unworthy of moral consideration, those branded as internal or external enemies.
Chris Hedges
#18. When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught.
Agnes Repplier
#20. I have sped by land and sea, and mingled with much people, but never yet could find a spot unsunned by human kindness.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
#21. No man can become a great leader of men unless he has the milk of human kindness in his own heart, and leads by suggestion and kindness, rather than by force.
Napoleon Hill
#22. Week 1:
'One hundred percent of positive-ness, will raise us to the point of successful-ness, in reaching our level of human kindness.
Ali Marsman
#23. Sometimes, you know, human kindness just knocks you off your feet.
Hollis Seamon
#24. God drove Cain out of his presence and sent him into exile far away from his native land, so that he passed from a life of human kindness to one which was more akin to the rude existence of a wild beast.
Saint Ambrose
#25. Human kindness has no reward. You should give to others in every way you see. expect absolutely nothing from anyone. It should be your goal to love every human you encounter. All human suffering that you're aware of and continues without your effort to stop it becomes your crime.
Louis C.K.
#26. He was as obsequious as a Japanese ivy plant. Wringing his hands as if he hoped to squeeze the milk of human kindness from his fingernails, ...
Philip Kerr
#27. Seeing as when it came to the milk of human kindness
they were all pretty much lactose intolerant.
J.L. Merrow
#28. I don't believe in your "Good". I believe in human kindness.
Vasily Grossman
#29. In the human race, the frequency of the virtues that are identical in us all is not more wonderful than the multiplicity of the defects that are peculiar to each one of us. Undoubtedly, it is not common sense that is "the commonest thing in the world"; it is human kindness.
Marcel Proust
#30. I think the essence of [Kurt] Vonnegut's humanism lay in his emphasis on human kindness as, so to speak, our saving grace.
Michael Dirda
#31. Nothing carries more potential for change than individual acts of human kindness.
Jamie Winship
#32. He who distributes the milk of human kindness cannot help but spill a little on himself.
James M. Barrie
#33. Soul-serving requires a heart that beats hard against the ribs. It requires a soul full of the milk of human kindness. This is the sine qua non of success.
Charles Spurgeon
#34. I am full of the milk of human kindness, damn it. My trouble is that it gets clotted so easily.
Gilbert Harding
#35. I think it may be not unjustly said that Mrs. Barton Trafford fairly ran over with the milk of human kindness, but all the same I have an inkling that if ever the milk of human kindness was charged with vitriol, here was a case in point.
W. Somerset Maugham
#36. Human kindness is like a defective tap, the first gush may be impressive but the stream soon dries up.
P.D. James
#37. We're all as bad as each other. All hungry little cannibals at our own cannibal party. So fuck the milk of human kindness and welcome to the abattoir!
Philip Ridley
#38. The milk of human kindness was kept often in the larder, and the tea served with lemon.
John Halperin
#39. Nothing is as difficult as to achieve results in this world if one is filled full of great tolerances and the milk of human kindness. The person who achieves must generally be a one-idea individual concentrated entirely on that one idea and ruthless in his aspect toward other men and other ideas.
Corinne Roosevelt Robinson
#40. Overflowing with the milk of human kindness, the family had invited everyone they could think of, including people they cordially disliked.
Gerald Durrell
#41. Glamis thou art, and Cawdor; and shalt be What thou art promised. Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness. One of the cows mooed appreciatively.
Kelley Armstrong
#42. The stranger who receives the rare gift of human kindness holds its value in his heart forever.
Charles Dudley Warner
#43. As a result of half a century of Soviet rule people have been weaned from a belief in human kindness.
Svetlana Alliluyeva
#44. I do believe in the power of prayer. I do. And I believe in the power of human kindness.
Leland Dirks
#45. I see death and tragedy all the time and nothing makes it worse than when it's totally senseless. All she needed was some niceness, some basic human kindness, and she wouldn't be on her way to the morgue and her parents wouldn't be devastated. It's heartbreaking and so senseless.
Jay Crownover
#46. I'm most inspired whenever I hear of even the smallest act of human kindness.
Byron Katie
#47. Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#48. I believe in music and gin and joy and talking too much and human kindness.
Caitlin Moran
#49. I see a strategy for fracturing humanity well in play: just keep people separated and let them reinforce invented boundaries in their imaginations. Because when people come together and really listen to each other, doing the hard work of human kindness, virtually every barrier is breached.
Jen Hatmaker
#50. All values in this world are more or less questionable, but the most important thing in life is human kindness.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
#51. 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
#52. The supply of the milk of human kindness was short by several gallons
P.G. Wodehouse
#53. I guess if you leave the milk of human kindness out in the sun too long, the sour cream of the crop will rise to the top.
Leland Gregory
#54. The fact is, people who don't have any misfortunes are very irritating to their neighbours. No opportunities for popping in with condolences and new-laid eggs. No visits to the afflicted. No opportunities for the milk of human kindness to flow. Naturally it doesn't.
Patricia Wentworth
#55. If at the present day it has found a warm welcome among certain circles in Europe, it is because all those who hope to derive from humanitarianism a moral code of human kindness for the acceptance of an atheistic society are already implicitly Buddhists.
Jacques Maritain
#56. Be prudent, diligent, temperate and discreet. Remember that every human being has a claim upon your kind offices.
Albert Pike
#57. the preferable way to treat one another is with love and kindness; that pursuit of material gain is ultimately empty when measured against eternity; and that somehow, as human beings, we are all connected spiritually.
Christopher Moore
#58. I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.
Pearl S. Buck
#59. The various features and aspects of human life, such as longevity, good health, success, happiness, and so forth, which we consider desirable, are all dependent on kindness and a good heart.
Dalai Lama XIV
#60. The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
Graham Greene
#61. Why should our nastiness be the baggage of an apish past and our kindness uniquely human? Why should we not seek continuity with other animals for our 'noble' traits as well?
Stephen Jay Gould
#63. 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
#64. Human relationships have to be rediscovered every day. We have to remember constantly that every kind of meeting with our neighbor is a human action and so it is always evil or good, true or deceitful, a kindness or a sin.
Natalia Ginzburg
#65. Human potential is amazing ... We have the capacity to create a world that is peaceful ... one that spreads kindness and love rather than hatred. If we believe it to be so, it will be our truth, and we will create it.
Kristi Bowman
#66. Don't ever forget that you're a citizen of this world, and there are things you can do to lift the human spirit, things that are easy, things that are free, things that you can do every day. Civility, respect, kindness, character.
Aaron Sorkin
#67. Be a human angel! With love, generosity and kindness, let us lighten the burden of suffering from humanity.
Debasish Mridha
#68. Human mobile devices that may come in handy and can be used anywhere include: prayer, meditation, a good attitude, compassion, kindness, humor, laughter, patience, love and a smile. Customize to personal style and taste.
Jody Watley
#69. Enlightened Society is all about nurturing the human spirit - waking up to the goodness, kindness and strength that we already have.
Sakyong Mipham
#70. When persons manifest the least kindness and love to me, O what power it has over my mind, while the opposite course has a tendency to harrow up all the harsh feelings and depress the human mind.
Joseph Smith Jr.
#71. No matter how noble the objectives of a government, if it blurs decency and kindness, cheapens human life, and breeds ill will and suspicion; it is an evil government.
Eric Hoffer
#72. Kindness is gracious demonstrate sensitivity and human warmth.
Kishore Bansal
#73. Hungry not only for bread - but hungry for love. Naked not only for clothing - but naked of human dignity and respect. Homeless not only for want of a home of bricks - but homeless because of rejection.
Mother Teresa
#74. Every single human being is created in the image of God; created for dignity, created for the Father's love, created for kindness, created for mercy.
Heidi Baker
#75. Kindness is not an illusion and violence is not a rule. The true resting state of human affairs is not represented by a man hacking his neighbor into pieces with a machete. That is a sick aberration. No, the true state of human affairs is life as it ought to be lived.
Paul Rusesabagina
#76. Religion, when realized truly, can provide an extremely accurate moral compass to the human conscience, while politics on the other hand, when utilized properly can ensure the wellbeing of the society.
Abhijit Naskar
#77. Half the misery of human life might be extinguished if men would alleviate the general curse they lie under by mutual offices of compassion, benevolence, and humanity.
Joseph Addison
#78. Like kindness, a smile from the heart not only purifies the human mind but also illumines the human heart.
Sri Chinmoy
#79. I wish the hearts of human beings pumped with kind desires.
I wish every gaze landed on the eyes of others compassionately.
I wish hatred, envy, and vengeance were alien concepts to humankind.
I wish the precious worth of every soul was universally understood.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#81. Politeness is often fear. Kindness is always courage. But caring is what makes you human. Care more, become more human.
Matt Haig
#82. We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. (Despite) all the selfishness that chills like east winds the world, the whole human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ether ... The effect of the indulgence of this human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#83. Human mortality linked to the human ability consciously to choose how to act by exhibiting free will, humility, hard work, kindness, and compassion provide exemplary opportunities to learn and develop self-discipline.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#84. True kindness is a pure divine affinity, Not founded upon human consanguinity. It is a spirit, not a blood relation, Superior to family and station.
Henry David Thoreau
#85. Beauty is something that is everywhere. The sunset is beautiful. Human connection is beautiful. Kindness is beautiful. Bodies are beautiful --all of them. Beauty is ubiquitous, inherent, and found in all of us: on the outside and the inside.
Jes Baker
#86. It is the human things that make life good, the unexpected kindness, the friendly note, the bracing word, the neighbour's extra loaf of bread she leaves at our back door.
Stevie Ray Vaughan
#87. Yoga exercises are the best connecting tools for unity, human dignity, health, equality, global peace and compassion.
Amit Ray
#88. Rise to become human again, my friend. Become the human, that talks humans, acts humans and lives human.
Abhijit Naskar
#89. Human beings who leave behind them no great achievements, but only a series of small kindnesses, have not had wasted lives
Charlotte Gray
#90. Those moral laws on which all human excellence is founded - a love of truth in ourselves, and a sincere sympathy with our fellow-creatures.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
#91. Conrad glared at him coldly. Jed could detect no human feeling or care or empathy coming from the man. This was a man who did everything by the book, and it was obvious that he didn't let anything - emotions, mercy, kindness - affect his decisions.
Jay Allan
#92. She had needed kindness before, and had received none. Now it was too late, and she did not know what to do with it.
Frances Hardinge
#93. It is a terrible thing, this kindness that human beings do not lose. Terrible, because when we are finally naked in the dark and cold, it is all we have. We who are so rich, so full of strength, we end up with that small change.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#94. The center of human nature is rooted in ten thousand ordinary acts of kindness that define our days.
Stephen Jay Gould
#95. Striving to be good is the ultimate struggle of every man. Being bad is easy, but being good requires sincere commitment, discipline and strength. We have to work hard every day just to remain good.
Suzy Kassem
#96. The beautiful souls of the world have an art of saintly alchemy, by which bitterness is converted into kindness, the gall of human experience into gentleness, ingratitude into benefits, insults into pardon.
Henri Frederic Amiel
#97. Maybe the past is supposed to fade-and that's actually a kindness of human memory.
Katherine Center
#98. The kindness of Christmas is the kindness of Christ. To know that God so loved us as to give us His Son for our dearest Brother, has brought human affection to its highest tide on the day of that Brother's birth. If God so loved us, how can we help loving one another?
Maltbie Davenport Babcock
#99. Don't just show kindness in passing or to be courteous. Show it in depth, show it with passion, and expect nothing in return. Kindness is not just about being nice; it's about recognizing another human being who deserves care and respect.
Colin Powell
#100. Humanism is the purest expression of your soul as a human. It has no God to be concerned with, except for the living Gods, that is the humans. It has no doctrine to abide by, except for the natural doctrine of love and benevolence. That's the religion we need my friend.
Abhijit Naskar
