George Santayana Quotes

The worst mistake you can make is underrating your enemy. Assuming that they're evil - I think it's a terrible thing to do.

I always think that if you look at anyone in detail, you will have empathy for them because you recognize them as a human being, no matter what they've done.

We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.

I'm not the judge. You know, God didn't tell me to go around judging everybody.

You can't tell stories and really walk in someone's shoes and not have a love for them, even if they're doing horrible things.

Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key, that it's the sine-qua-non of religion, people look kind of balked, and stubborn sometimes, as much to say, what's the point of having religion if you can't disapprove of other people?

I may not understand, but I am willing to admire.

I don't think it's an incredibly radical premise to try and have sympathy for someone who has made a mistake.

What is a hero without love for mankind.

Often as a child you see someone with a learning disability or Down's Syndrome and my mum and dad were always very quick to explain exactly what was going on and to be in their own way inclusive and welcoming.

There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behooves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.

Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.

The world I want to live in is a world where everybody is a bit more uncertain about their arguments and is a bit more open to other people's arguments. I think that we can engage ideas without ad hominem attacks.

A modern hero should … think as well as act and should inspire Americans with a forward-looking set of values.

Judge not, that ye be not judged.

I wish we might have less condemnation of error and more commendation of right.

I think one ought always to be indulgent towards other people, as I always think, if we had not been well brought up and well taken care of, we might also have gone astray. That is always my feeling. Yet it is always right to show that one does not like to see what is obviously wrong; but it is very dangerous to be too severe, and I am certain that as a rule such people always greatly regret that in their youth they have not been as careful as they ought to have been.

I have labored carefully, not to mock, lament, or execrate, but to understand human actions

This beautiful, messy, wonderful and volatile world of ours needs more heroes.

I suppose we're not supposed to judge people.

I consider all drama to be the opportunity to see the world from another person's point of view. That seems to be the point of drama, really. And thereby to encourage understanding and even love.

If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.

It's up to God to do the judging. You haven't walked in my boots, so how are you going to judge me?

I do not morally judge any character and resist judging anybody in real life, too.

We should all be allies to ideas or people or initiatives that we don't necessarily have a real knowledge in.