Herb Trimpe Quotes

I feel it's in people's nature to want to stop evil and embrace the good.

The sturdiest pillars of human morality are compassion and a sense of justice.

I think that we all know what evil is. We have a sense of what's evil, and certainly killing innocent people is evil. We're less sure about what is good. There's sort of good, good enough, could be better - but absolute good is a little harder to define.

I am not dead inside. I still care about right and wrong.

I have no feelings for the criminal. All my feelings lie with the victim.

We're so much more likely to feel sympathy for an animal than another person; thus, the best fiction uses animals to define truly humane behavior.

No man-made law will ever eliminate cruelty and evil from every human heart.

I'm not a bad man.

I've never hurt a single person in my whole life - never even wanted to hurt someone.

Nothing shocks our moral feelings so deeply as cruelty does. We can forgive every other crime, but not cruelty. The reason for this is that it is the very opposite of compassion.

We'll fight, not out of spite For someone must stand up for what's right 'Cause where there's a man who has no voice There ours shall go singing My hands are small I know But they're not yours, they are my own But they're not yours, they are my own I am never broken In the end only kindness matters In the end only kindness matters

I must fight with my weapons. Not his. Not selfishness and brutality and shame and resentment.

I have always believed in trying to be a good person and giving to the world, and treating others in a just, kind, merciful way.

Who feels injustice, who shrinks before a slight, who has a sense of wrong so acute, and so glowing a gratitude for kindness, as a generous boy?

There is in Aristotle an almost complete absence of what may be called benevolence or philanthropy. The sufferings of mankind . . . there is no evidence that they cause him unhappiness except when the sufferers happen to be his friends.

I was always talking about peace and love, even when I was a kid. That's how I grew up in my family.

Love is more just than justice.

If you want a kinder world, then behave with kindness; if you want a peaceful world, make peace within.

I do not see why we should not be as just to an ant as to a human being.

The Law is a grim, unsmiling thing. Not Justice, though. Justice is witty and whimsical and kind and caring.

I find myself moved by social justice issues. I'm not sure where that will lead me. I'm willing to nurture it.

Nothing human disgusts me unless it's unkind.

We must have friendship for all; we must be merciful toward those that are in misery; when people are happy, we ought to be happy; and to the wicked we must be indifferent. These attitudes will make the mind peaceful.

The opportunity to love a dog and to treat it with kindness is an opportunity for a lost and selfish heart to be redeemed. They are powerless and innocent, and it is how we treat the humblest among us that surely determines the fate of our souls

My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart-a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.