Jodie Foster Quotes

I can't stand cruel people. And if I see people doing something mean to somebody else just to make themselves feel important, it really gets me mad.

I don't understand how people can take a gentle, loving life and treat it with such cruelty.

People are mean to each other.

There is nothing to be gained by being unnecessarily nasty. Violence begets violence.

Why only hate? Where does love remain? Or at least a little decency toward other people? Exactly the same as we behaved against the Jews, we now wish to do against all other people who are in our way, to smash, crush - yes, even exterminate.

Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.

There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.

Somebody hits me, I'm going to hit him back. Even if it does look like he hasn't eaten in a while.

The brutalization of humans by other humans never fails to get to me in some angry-making way. It shot up in me like an explosion.

Gentleness is the antidote for cruelty.

The things that make me very angry are injustice and bullying. If I see someone bullying a woman or child in the street, or kicking a dog, I go completely mad.

We are taught that revenge is strong and compassion is weak. We are taught that power is more important than love.

All cruelty springs from weakness.

I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.

We cannot be kind to each other here for even an hour. We whisper, and hint, and chuckle and grin at our brother's shame; however you take it we men are a little breed.

You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.

Being mean about other people isn't on my radar.

I have a zero-tolerance policy when it comes to bullies.

It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy.

If you're mean to a gentle man, it makes your meanness worse.

I find man's inhumanity to man extraordinary,,, I can't get my head around it.

I get angry when people push people around.

When someone mistreats you, the correct reaction is not to go out and do something to destroy somebody else's property.

I don't like how cruel humans can be.

I don't like to hurt people for fun.