Adam Savage Quotes

Love people, not things; use things, not people.

Love is the supreme value around which all moral values can be integrated into one ethical system valid for the whole of humanity.

Some people consider the practice of love and compassion is only related to religious practice and if they are not interested in religion they neglect these inner values. But love and compassion are qualities that human beings require just to live together.

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.

I think more important than law is the hearts of people.

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.

Human morality is unthinkable without empathy.

Humanity is more important to me than talent... if there's a choice to make, I'll go humanity over talent every time.

The virtue involved in helping those one loves is not 'selflessness' or 'sacrifice,' but integrity.

We ought, all of us, to realize each other in this intense, pathetic, and important way. If you say that this is absurd, and that we cannot be in love with everyone at once, I merely point out to you that, as a matter of fact, certain persons do exist with an enormous capacity for friendship and for taking delight in other people's lives; and that such persons know more of truth than if their hearts were not so big.

Love and kindness are the very basis of society. If we lose these feelings, society will face tremendous difficulties; the survival of humanity will be endangered.

He who's never loved cannot be good.

The most valuable asset we have, actually, is our ability to understand, to do the right thing, to be kind, to be decent.

A heart set on love will do no wrong.

The best practical advice I can give to the present generation is to practice the virtue which the Christians call love.

His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be

The first condition of human goodness is something to love; the second, something to reverence.

... the main principle by which human beings must guide the future course of their development is love.

Cruelty, I truly believe, is the one and only sin.

People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel or love.

Developing our sympathetic compassion is not only possible but the only reason for us to be here on earth.

The measure of and self-congratulation for our own intelligence should have its basis in our moral behavior as well as our smarts.

Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.

Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste.

Love other human beings as you would love yourself.