Ronald Firbank Quotes

I think I've advanced my views with compassion and tolerance.

I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that's ever happened to me has taught me compassion.

A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.

Treat everyone with respect and kindness. Period. No exceptions.

You just need to put yourself in someone else's shoes and then see how they feel and then you will understand why they are reacting or why they are behaving the way that they are behaving. We need to be fair.

A policy of humanity; a policy not of party, sect or creed; but of justice, of reason and mercy

We have seen our discourse degraded by casual cruelty. At times, it can seem like the forces pulling us apart are stronger than the forces binding us together. Argument turns too easily into animosity. Disagreement escalates into dehumanization. Too often, we judge other groups by their worst examples while judging ourselves by our best intentions.

I looked at the world with the humaneness, I think, which is one of the hallmarks of being liberal in my mind.

I do think that it's unfair to criticise anyone if they are having a bad day.

Nobody - regardless of how they feel or behave - deserves to be on the other end of receiving hatred and discrimination.

I long ago vowed, as Batman did before me, never to make fun of stuff that people couldn't help. Because it's (1) easy and (2) not fair. There are plenty of things that people have complete control over that are worthy of ridicule.

It's just better to promote love and fairness and equality than it is to promote something you think is based on your religious beliefs.

Unfair discrimination exists whether we like it or not; I wouldn't have married a gum-chewing vegetarian. Ultimately, we'll help the people we discriminate against if we try to understand more about them; genetics will lead to a world where there is a sympathy for the underdog.

My impulse is to create an aesthetic that's about a humanistic approach to a world and trying to create compassion for all the characters.

I believe, in general, that even people that are self-pitying, you can feel for them.

If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

I have no room in my life for any form of negativity or nonacceptance.

Nobody should consider himself superior to another nor do him harm.

We can scarcely hate any one that we know.

Be patient with a bad neighbor: he may move or face misfortune.

Our concern is with the loss of tolerance, the absence of compassion and the downgrading of fairness as expressed in this neo-conservative age.

Men do very little from love, a great deal from hate, most of all from indifference.

We are ever willing to accord to others that tolerant understanding that we wish others to accord to us.

I'm the friend of the little people.

Judge not, that ye be not judged.