Sasheer Zamata Quotes

I love mankind; it's people I can't stand.

People are no damned good.

There are very few misanthropes, thank goodness!

When you read the news, and you see all this bad stuff happening, there's a tendency to lose faith in humanity. But I meet so many people who restore it and realize that, actually, 99 percent of people are great.

Love and Compassion are the true religions to me. But to develop this, we do not need to believe in any religion.

I have stopped being a misanthrope.

Why only hate? Where does love remain? Or at least a little decency toward other people?

I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It's the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at all costs.

I'm a big believer in human nature.

Why does God endow us with compassion?

My faith in humanity leads me to believe that people are looking for something more elevating than the sordid details of the intimate aspects of one's personal life.

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.

I don't defend the idea of universal love. It has never existed and will never exist.

I believe in humans.

Pessimists are usually kind. The gay, bubbling over, have to time for the pitiful.

Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.

There are some great human beings out there. That's all I can say.

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

I am an optimist, and I try to think that the light will always prevail in any situation, so it doesn't really make me sad about humanity because I think, deep down, everybody is full of love and light.

I believe in so much - I believe in people. I believe in hope.

Not to sound too Pollyanna-ish, but I think most people are decent, caring human beings. You don't necessarily see that reflected in fiction maybe, because possibly it's perceived as not having much dramatic potential.

...love rather than fear...this radical philosophy is coming from me, an avowed misanthrope...surely there is hope for us all.

True, this world of ours is full of hatred and disbelief, but that is no reason why we should not love and why we should not believe. We must love and believe in order to empty the hatred-sea.

We ought, all of us, to realize each other in this intense, pathetic, and important way. If you say that this is absurd, and that we cannot be in love with everyone at once, I merely point out to you that, as a matter of fact, certain persons do exist with an enormous capacity for friendship and for taking delight in other people's lives; and that such persons know more of truth than if their hearts were not so big.

The essence of any religion is good heart. Sometimes I call love and compassion a universal religion. This is my religion.