Kevin Rudd Quotes

I have a great sensitivity to kids. I have a great sensitivity to the people that fall between the cracks.

We're a compassionate nation.

It seemed to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness.

Your greatness is measured by your kindness.

Children who are respected learn respect. Children who are cared for learn to care for those weaker than themselves. Children who are loved for what they are cannot learn intolerance. In an environment such as this, they will develop their own ideals, which can be nothing other than humane, since they grew out of the experience of love.

Cruelty hardens and degrades, kindness reforms and ennobles.

Kindness is one of the best gifts you can bestow... We know that inherently that feels great.

All people are endowed with the faculty of compassion, and for this reason can develop the humanitarian spirit.

I believe that at every level of society the key to a happier world is the growth of compassion. We do not need to become religious, nor do we need to believe in an ideology. All that is necessary is for each of us to develop our good human qualities.

As a nation, we may take pride in the fact that we are softhearted; but we cannot afford to be soft-headed.

Love and compassion are the pillars of world peace.

Compassion is a piece of vocabulary that could change us if we truly let it sink into the standards to which we hold ourselves and others.

The measure of a country's greatness is its ability to retain compassion in time of crisis.

How we treat the least of our brethren,... that's the measure of this country.

Tolerance and compassion are qualities of fearless people.

A humane and generous concern for every individual, his health and his fulfillment, will do more to soothe the savage heart than the fear of state-inflicted death, which chiefly serves to remind us how close we remain to the jungle.

Online we have a compassion deficit

"The true essence of humankind is kindness. There are other qualities which come from education or knowledge, but it is essential, if one wishes to be a genuine human being and impart satisfying meaning to one's existence, to have a good heart."

Kindness is virtue itself.

We claim we believe in compassion, which is an abstract, and when it's personified we discredit the man

I really feel that some people neglect and overlook compassion because they associate it with religion. Of course, everyone is free to choose whether they pay religion any regard, but to neglect compassion is a mistake because it is the source of our own well-being.

We must never allow the voice of humanity within us to be silenced. It is humanity's sympathy with all creatures that first makes us truly human.

Kindness is the truest wisdom of life and we cannot go far without it.

One of the basic points is kindness. With kindness, with love and compassion, with his feeling that is the essence of brotherhood, sisterhood, one will have inner peace. This compassionate feeling is the basis of inner peace.

Compassion can change a lot of things, including the world. Young people especially need to know that, because they're the future.