D. H. Lawrence Quotes

Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.

Humanity has both its beautiful and its ugly sides.

As human beings we're so cynical, so uncompassionate.

The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.

I live by the code 'Kill them with kindness, blood everywhere;' for me, it's always about being the nicest kind of guy.

Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger.

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

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

People are strange, but more than that, they're good. They're good first, then strange.

Let no one underestimate the need of pity. We live in a stony universe whose hard, brilliant forces rage fiercely.

Compassion is contempt with a human face.

Goodness, that Simon Cowell is a sensitive soul.

You can't look in the face of adoration and be cruel.

The truth doesn't have to do with cruelty, the truth has to do with mercy.

I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.

There are very few misanthropes, thank goodness!

I think when you don't know where you stand with someone, they can surprise you in their goodness and their badness, and that makes them human.

Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.

We are not by nature cruel.

There are some men whose enemies are to be pitied much, and their friends more.

I understand and I don't understand human beings.

In any case, I would never make a film that was only one thing. Even if it's my warmest, most romantic film, I still want it to have the more cynical view of things, showing the irony and absurdity of things that we consider normal.

Humanity, perhaps, that quality of benevolence that humans have, without irony, named after themselves.

Human beings can be awful, but they can also be tremendous.

Inhumanity, n. One of the signal and characteristic qualities of humanity.