Bertolt Brecht Quotes

Humanity is more important to me than talent... if there's a choice to make, I'll go humanity over talent every time.

What is it that distinguishes you and me from the lower animals - from the beasts? More, I say, than anything else, human sympathy - human sympathy.

A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.

Humankind would improve if we concentrated less on being human and more on being kind.

I care about people. In the end, I think they feel it. It comes across, regardless of the character I'm portraying.

We must challenge a culture that is based on too much meanness and not enough meaning.

I feel compassion is so important to develop in ourselves. It's one of the most important elements of being a human being.

Everybody has a heart. Except some people.

I believe in love, children and being a good person.

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.

There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others as we do for ourselves.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

We have observed that, in society and the world in which we live, selfishness has increased more than love for others, and that men of good will must work, each with his own strengths and expertise, to ensure that love for others increases until it is equal and possibly exceeds love for oneself.

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.

I often write about nonreligious people, and I try to find situations where their sense of humanity is restored or discovered. I think you can be a good person in many ways. And I think you often have to be careful that prayer can seem superficial, because it's a very complicated thing to love your neighbor as yourself.

The greater good is achieved by not only telling people what they need to know, but also filling them with a sense of empathy and love.

I just believe that our most redeeming feature as a species is our capacity for love.

It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.

I don't want to just love my family; I want to love all of humanity.

Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

One of women's greatest values is compassion.

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

A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.

As long as I'm a good person and I do things from the heart, that's all that matters.