Dustin Lance Black Quotes

I always think that if you look at anyone in detail, you will have empathy for them because you recognize them as a human being, no matter what they've done.

We are all trying to make it the best way we know how, so when we look at each other as individuals and nations, we should do so with compassion.

Some of my best friends here in New York have pasts I have a hard time reconciling with the people I'm close to now. But I wouldn't change them - or their pasts - for anything in the world. Their experiences are what made them the people they are today.

Try to love someone who you want to hate, because they are just like you, somewhere inside, in a way you may never expect, in a way that resounds so deeply within you that you cannot believe it.

When you boil war down or all conflict down to two people, it's a great advert for humanity sometimes. People can find connections with each other, regardless of the bigger picture.

It's challenging, in a way, but if you depict anyone with all the colors of human emotion and show those moments - with their families, with their children - the worst of us have elements of real humanity.

Everyone is human, and everyone makes mistakes.

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.

I want to see these bad, bad, bad, bad men come to grips with their humanity.

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

You have to see the human being in the enemy. If there is potential for change, there is still hope.

Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.

The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.

The only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness.

No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.

I think there's good in everybody.

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.

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

We'd do better to follow the admonition of Jesus about loving our neighbours. People in the U.S. are capable of forgiveness and willing to see one another's point of view, but when matters become politicised, we're less able to do that.

We need to understand that whatever we do, we're all human beings first.

If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.

Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.