Pierre Omidyar Quotes

I believe people are wonderful. The vast majority of people have never hurt anybody in their lives.

It's important for us to be kind to other people and treat other people the way that we want to be treated.

I'm a big believer in human nature.

I don't play favorites with people. My basic philosophy is that the only way to make the world a better place is by bringing something beautiful to every single person you run into at every moment of the day, so how can you play favorites with somebody?

I believe in people.

I try to look for the good in everybody, regardless of the way they're labeled.

The most important thing is that you be a good person and you live by the golden rule of do unto others. If you live by that, that's all I care about.

You have to keep a feeling of goodness in your exteriors.

My father was a humanitarian, but he didn't side one way or another with any certain right's groups. He just believed in people.

People generally are just really nice to each other. You know, the good people.

I love people, me, I believe in people. I love people too much.

If it wasn't for good," my mother says, "we human beings would have been wiped out a long time ago. Either the monsters would have gotten us or we would have killed each other off with greed and jealousy and anger. So we have to believe in good. We have to look for the good in ourselves.

It doesn't matter who you sleep with, it's how you treat other people in this world.

I grew up with the thought that I wanted to treat people the way I'd like to be treated, and I think if you do that, it's pretty hard to go wrong.

The great truth that is too often forgotten is that it is in the nature of people to do good to one another.

I love life and people, so I guess I want to help anyone I can live the fullest, most wonderful life possible.

Try to treat others as you would want them to treat you

The gratitude that we encounter helps us believe in the goodness of the world, and strengthens us thereby to do what's good.

All I am really promoting in the books is the Golden Rule, which I hope everybody knows to be "do as you would be done by." It has one or 2 flaws, but it is a good soundbite. Evil starts when you treat other people as things. There are perhaps worse crimes, but they begin when you treat other people as things.

I am inspired when I see goodness in other people.

When mankind goes back to treating people the way you want to be treated, things will settle, I don't see that happening. I treat people the way I want to be treated, which makes me odd.

I feel like I'm treating people as I'd like to be treated.

Don't do to someone else what you wouldn't want done to you.

Love people, not things; use things, not people.

Parents: instead of teaching our children to be brave boys or pretty girls, can we maybe just teach them how to be good humans?