Ray Bradbury Quotes

People treat serious subjects so seriously, which is so obvious a way of dealing with them. I'm always thinking that the best way of dealing with them is to show people as human beings.

Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin.

Parents: instead of teaching our children to be brave boys or pretty girls, can we maybe just teach them how to be good humans?

To me you cannot be fully human, fully civilised, unless you recognise humanity in everyone.

I'm always interested in getting to know people, and that means vilified people as much as those celebrated. You find out that heroes aren't always so heroic, and villains have some bit of humanity in them.

'Ida' is about humanity, about guilt and forgiveness. It's not a film that deals with an issue as such. It's more universal.

The more power that we have, the less human we are.

It is easier to hate an enemy with much good in him than one who is all bad. We cannot hate those we despise.

There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, I said, but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too.

There are so many things admirable people do not understand.

I liked human beings, but I did not love human nature.

Humans are not really very humane.

Empathy is the greatest virtue. From it, all virtues flow. Without it, all virtues are an act.

If you don't know when to be a human being, you don't know when to be a witch.

When men are inhuman, take care not to feel towards them as they do towards other humans.

Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human.

To exult over the miseries of an unhappy creature is inhuman.

That's the problem with having a moral code. We want to destroy the jerkish part of the jerks, but we want to save the human being underneath.

All I care to know about a man is that he is a human being... he can't be any worse.

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.

In the end only kindness matters.

I've always thought cruelty is a failure of imagination.

To love is human, it is also human to forgive.

What do we mean by setting a man free? You cannot free a man who dwells in a desert and is an unfeeling brute.

Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.