“Be prudent, diligent, temperate and discreet. Remember that every human being has a claim upon your kind offices.” HumansKindRememberHuman BeingsKindnessOfficeClaimsPrudentDiligentDiscreet Author:Albert Pike
“I am not [...] asserting that humans are either genial or aggressive by inborn biological necessity. Obviously, both kindness and violence lie within the bounds of our nature because we perpetrate both, in spades. I only advance a structural claim that social stability rules nearly all the time and must be based on an overwhelmingly predominant (but tragically ignored) frequency of genial acts, and that geniality is therefore our usual and preferred response nearly all the time. [...] [T]he center of human nature is rooted in ten thousand ordinary acts of kindness that define our days.” HumansLyingSocialKindnessViolenceHuman NatureThousandTenOrdinaryClaimsResponseBoundsStabilityAggressiveUsualRootedIgnoredFrequencyActs Of KindnessSpadesGeniality Author:Stephen Jay Gould
“The true value of the Christian religion rests, not upon speculative views of the Creator, which must necessarily be different in each individual, according to the extent of the knowledge of the finite being, who employs his own feeble powers in contemplating the infinite: but it rests upon those doctrines of kindness and benevolence which that religion claims and enforces, not merely in favour of man himself but of every creature susceptible of pain or of happiness.” MenDifferentChristianPainValuesIndividualViewsKindnessCreaturesClaimsInfiniteCreatorDoctrineContemplatingFavourFiniteBenevolenceSusceptibleTrue Value Author:Charles Babbage
“Altruism does not mean mere kindness or generosity, but the sacrifice of the best among men to the worst, the sacrifice of virtues to flaws, of ability to incompetence, of progress to stagnation-and the subordinating of all life and of all values to the claims of anyone's suffering.” MenMeanDoeSufferingValuesAbilityKindnessVirtueProgressSacrificeWorstClaimsMereGenerosityFlawsAltruismIncompetenceStagnation Book:Ayn Rand Reader Source: Ayn Rand Reader
“Acting politely in front of someone black and/or gay and then making horrible claims about their intelligence or worth as human beings after they leave the room is not kindness - it's hypocrisy.” HumansBlackHuman BeingsRoomsActingKindnessFrontsGayClaimsHorribleHypocrisy Author:Mallory Ortberg
“Animals are more than ever a test of our character, of mankind's capacity for empathy and for decent, honorable conduct and faithful stewardship. We are called to treat them with kindness, not because they have rights or power or some claim to equality, but in a sense because they don't; because they all stand unequal and powerless before us.” CharacterAnimalKindnessRightsMankindEmpathyCapacityTestsTreatsClaimsFaithfulDecentHonorablePowerlessStewardship Book:Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy Source: Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy
“The architects who benefit us most maybe those generous enough to lay aside their claims to genius in order to devote themselves to assembling graceful but predominantly unoriginal boxes. Architecture should have the confidence and the kindness to be a little boring.” ShouldLittlesEnoughOrderKindnessGeniusBenefitsShould HaveClaimsLaysBoxesBoringArchitectureGenerousArchitectAssembling Author:Alain de Botton