Quotes for a Culture of Peace - Kindness

Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than love...Kindness is good will. Kindness says, "I want you to be happy.
-- Randolph Ray

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel in order to be tough.
-- Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945)

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
-- Theodore Isaac Rubin

"What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?"
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau

"Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom."
-- Theodore Isaac Rubin

"A man can do only what a man can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day."
-- Albert Schweitzer

"Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose."
-- Albert Schweitzer

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
-- Seneca

"Those who love not their fellow-beings live unfruitful lives, and prepare for their old age a miserable grave."
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley

"You have not lived a perfect day...unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you."
-- Ruth Smeltzer

"One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession."
-- Sophocles, 409 BC

"Kindness gives birth to kindness."
-- Sophocles.

"Kindness it is that brings forth kindness always."
-- Sophocles (447 BC)

Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and do.
-- Emmanuel Swedenborg

"You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot do by force."
-- Publilius Syrus (1st century BC)