Andrew Solomon Quotes

Frankly, there isn't anyone you couldn't learn to love once you've heard their story.

There's nobody you can't love once you know their story. I believe that to be, in the majority, true.

When you know someone's story, it becomes much harder to hate them.

You can’t hate someone whose story you know.

When you really know somebody you can’t hate them. Or maybe it’s just that you can’t really know them until you stop hating them.

When you really know someone, you can't hate him.

You can't tell stories and really walk in someone's shoes and not have a love for them, even if they're doing horrible things.

No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.

You hate evil, but you don't hate the people that do evil. So, hate has to go out the window.

We have to have a deep, patient compassion for the fears of others and irrational mania of those who hate or condemn us.

There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, I said, but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too.

Hate the sin and not the sinner' is a precept which, though easy enough to understand, is rarely practiced, and that is why the poison of hatred spreads in the world.

I believe sharing stories and experiences is the best way to teach people to empathize!

If I could have one wish, it would be for people to look at one another with open hearts and minds. Most of all, to look at each other with compassion. No matter who they are.

After all, the only way to communicate is to find someone who can comprehend; the only way to be forgiven is to find someone who is willing to forgive.

Hating people isn’t a productive way of living. So what’s the point in hating anyone? There’s enough hate in the world as it is, without me adding to it.

Love is so much bigger than our ignorance.

If we could look into each other’s hearts and understand the unique challenges each of us faces, I think we would treat each other much more gently, with more love, patience, tolerance, and care.

I call on you not to hate, because hate does not leave space for a person to be fair and it makes you blind and closes all doors of thinking.

When you connect to someone on a human level, and you get to know about them, you can begin to love the things that make them different.

I've gotten really good at not judging characters.

A true man hates no one.

I think that's an incredible thing that we can do as actors - to feel empathy toward someone that you may otherwise detest, you know?

With every character, the first thing I want to feel is empathy.

When you connect to someone on a human level, and you get to know about them, you can begin to love the things that make them different. That's when fear dissipates, and that's when we can live the life that we're all supposed to be living.