Vasily Grossman Quotes

At the end of the day, love and compassion will win.

Everyone deserves compassion.

It really shocks me when I encounter people who think kindness doesn't matter. Because I think it's pretty much the only thing that matters.

John wrote with a very deep love for the human race and a concern for its future.

I do not like sports, unless you consider treating all humankind with love and respect a sport.

I can assuredly say that it's my life's mission to love all people.

My father loves people. No matter what their race, no matter what their position in life, he treated everyone with kindness and love and respect. And that was instilled in me just by watching him.

There is only one way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one's own life, to exemplify man's humanity to man.

I think what makes us human - is our interconnectedness among people. It's our ability to form and maintain relationships. It's the barometer by which we call ourselves human.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

Be kind to the living.

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

We have observed that, in society and the world in which we live, selfishness has increased more than love for others, and that men of good will must work, each with his own strengths and expertise, to ensure that love for others increases until it is equal and possibly exceeds love for oneself.

It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man.

Love is bigger than government.

Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human.

I would like to be remembered as somebody who cared a great deal about people.

I believe in working with the hearts of people, and not locking them up.

Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.

I'm human, I feel, I understand. That's the highest level of love, is understanding - when you can understand someone, when you can love them with their flaws and their faults. So I understand, I consider. I may speak the truth, but I'll consider your feelings, too.

We should learn to live and love our neighbors as ourselves for the sake of peace and progress.

The crest and crowning of all good, Life's final star, is brotherhood.

We are all human beings, part of the human race, and we need to be compassionate and giving and kind with one another.

Sometimes you see how humanity can rise above any kind of cultural ills and hate that a person's capacity to love and communicate and forgive can be bigger than anything else.