Captain Beefheart Quotes

One can't be kind to one person and cruel to another.

We are all trying to make it the best way we know how, so when we look at each other as individuals and nations, we should do so with compassion.

Compassion is contempt with a human face.

What's important to me is people just being people.

We've been trained since kindergarten: Be nice, be kind, share, put on a smile. So we're conditioned to squash our natural selfish instincts, and that's the right thing for society.

I love mankind; it's people I can't stand.

Be kind to the living.

You just need to put yourself in someone else's shoes and then see how they feel and then you will understand why they are reacting or why they are behaving the way that they are behaving. We need to be fair.

I try to be kind to people, to treat them with respect. And I'm proud of that.

I am a compassionate human being. I am who I am.

You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.

I'm an advocate of human nature.

The way you give love is the most profoundly human part of you. When people say it's ugly or a perversion or an abomination, they're attacking the center of your being.

And we call ourselves the human race.

I try to be kind, and I try to reflect that in my comedy, but I'm also incredibly bad at being mean. I can't pull it off effectively, so I always end up reverting back to politeness.

That's the biggest thing: be kind and be original.

Once in a while, a person finds his humanity in a way that astounds his contemporaries.

For a long time, I consciously tried to be a good person for others. Not anymore. Caring about other people keeps me in line, but I've decided to just be myself.

Everyone should just be kind to one another.

You have to be the nice one!

What he's really saying is: Please be a human being. With a life so full of rules and regiments, it's so easy to forget that's what they are. She knows—she sees—how often compassion takes a back seat to expediency.

No one needs to teach you to be mean; we need to be taught to be kind.

There's a saying I read recently; I painted it on the fireplace and in my studio: "Be kind to everyone you meet, for everyone is fighting a great battle." We all are. Everyone.

Humanity, perhaps, that quality of benevolence that humans have, without irony, named after themselves.

We should be careful / Of each other, we should be kind / While there is still time.