Mark Twain Quotes

My earnest request is that you practice love and kindness whether you believe in a religion or not

Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion.

Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings.

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

Humans are not really very humane.

Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.

I'm a big believer in human nature.

Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control.

I don't slam doors in people's faces, and I'm not a bigot.

A lot of guys don't want to admit that they have a propensity for generosity and for violence.

A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism.

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in.

If everyone were a good person, it'd obviously be a better world.

Peoples are made of hate and of love, and more of hate than love.

There are many reasons for kindness, and religion is just one of them.

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

It is absurd to suppose, if this is God’s world, that men must always be selfish barbarians.

I believe people are wonderful. The vast majority of people have never hurt anybody in their lives.

In nearly every religion I am aware of, there is a variation of the golden rule. And even for the non-religious, it is a tenet of people who believe in humanistic principles.

You can't fight if you have any compassion or anything like that.

I am a humanist.

I'm not just a fighter; I like to give love as well. I'm a lover, too.

Humanity is best described as inhumanity.