Keith Olbermann Quotes

If I saw someone in need and I did nothing, I'd be defacing my own humanity.

How can I act in an impersonal manner? When a man dies in the street for want of food, how can I ignore him? When I find a starving or naked man in the street, I cannot walk past him. I think no human being can do that.

Whenever I see a homeless guy, I always run back and give him money, because I think, 'Oh my God, what if that was Jesus?'

I'm quite shocked and have been for quite a while as for the way people are treating each other. That's why I go out and I speak for the hungry, and if I see somebody needs a hug during the day, I'll go and give them a hug, and I think we should all use a little bit more of that.

We don't have to be good, you know? No one's telling us that we have to do good things, but we do them because we know it makes other people feel good and it makes us feel good.

I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and help save the world.

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?'

One is guilty of all abjection that one does not help to relieve.

How can you regret helping a suffering patient?

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.

Because a human being is endowed with empathy, he violates the natural order if he does not reach out to those who need care. Responding to this empathy, one is in harmony with the order of things, with dharma; otherwise, one is not.

Your government is still on the same side of the street as the Good Samaritan and not those who pass by on the other side.

The end of all knowledge should be service to others.

I have a responsibility to my fellow my community, to my fellow man, and woman. With that said, I create from a place of selfishness, but I'm also cognizant of potential impact on others. And I try to make that impact positive.

We should be with people who are in need.

Compassion and justice are companions, not choices.

Whoever it was, whether I knew them or not, if I could help in some way, I would. I mean, if you can help, you have to help. Don't you think? - Poppy Wyatt

Unless we endeavor to do good to our neighbor, through our cruelty we transgress this law

I can think of no greater God-given responsibility we have than that of extending a helping hand to our fellow man.

Just because we cannot do everything for everyone does not mean we should do nothing for anyone.

The real index of civilization is when people are kinder than they need to be.

I think there is a level of altruism that wants to help fellow human beings.

It is only out of ignorance that people are cruel, because they really don't think it will come back.

People should never think that you have to be a very special person to help those who need you.

The truest state of humanity is that you're living for other people.