Maxim Gorky Quotes

Everybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That's why we want to be considerate of every man - Who knows what's in him, why he was born and what he can do?

The most rewarding thing for me has been this affirmation for me that people are basically good and smart, and if you give them a simple tool that allows them to exhibit that behavior, they'll prove it to you every single day.

And we call ourselves the human race.

The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.

I'm a big believer in human nature.

Every day, the people I meet inspire me... every day, they make me proud... every day they remind me how blessed we are to live in the greatest nation on earth.

I'm an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals.

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.

I want to make this world perfect.

I believe in humans.

When we can lay down our fear and anger and choose responses other than aggression, we create the conditions for bringing out the best in us humans.

If it turns out that there are emotions and values that are more numerous and more vibrant than indifference and hatred, things are going to be okay. That depends on us.

Buckminster Fuller - he never lost faith in the goodness of humanity.

People generally are just really nice to each other. You know, the good people.

Even before I did stand-up, I've always been the kind of guy - and I talk about it on stage - who says I like people and I always look for the good in people. I say, 'Every person has something good about them, if you can just find it.'

Psychology is as important as substance. If you treat people with respect, they will go out of their way to accommodate you. If you treat them in a patronizing way, they will go out of their way to make your life difficult.

When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, 'Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.'

There's nothing wrong or evil about having a bad day. There's everything wrong with making others have to have it... with you.

I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

I've always thought, and it gets tested at times, that I have a great faith in the fundamental goodness of human beings.

He who doesn't consider himself is seldom considerate of others.

Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control.

I can't do comedy that is cutting and vicious. If I knew I'd said something that was going to make someone feel bad, well, that supersedes everything.

I never knowingly wanted to hurt anybody.

Don't fall in love with your wit. Your cleverly turned phrase may not, as you hope, show off how much gray matter you have, especially if the phrase is at someone else's expense.