Human kindness Quotes

“My faith has been tempered in Hell. My faith has emerged from the flames of the crematoria, from the concrete of the gas chamber. I have seen that it is not man who is impotent in the struggle against evil, but the power of evil that is impotent in the struggle against man. The powerlessness of kindness, of senseless kindness, is the secret of its immortality. It can never be conquered. The more stupid, the more senseless, the more helpless it may seem, the vaster it is. Evil is impotent before it. The prophets, religious teachers, reformers, social and political leaders are impotent before it. This dumb, blind love is man's meaning.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. But if what is human in human beings has not been destroyed even now, then evil will never conquer.”

“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.”

“I do believe in the power of prayer. I do. And I believe in the power of human kindness.”

“Sometimes, you know, human kindness just knocks you off your feet.”

“Nothing carries more potential for change than individual acts of human kindness. ”

“Yet do I fear thy nature It is too full o' the milk of human kindness.”

“She had no God to plead to for mercy or luck. It would be true to say she depended instead on human kindness and painkillers.”

“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, ...”

“Overflowing with the milk of human kindness, the family had invited everyone they could think of, including people they cordially disliked.”

“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.”