Mandy Patinkin Quotes

Love your enemies.

I believe in peace. I believe in mercy.

I don’t hate anyone including my enemies.

We do not celebrate the death of our enemies.

I choose not to give energy to the emotions of revenge, hatred or the desire to subjugate.

Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.

To be social is to be forgiving.

There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.

Sometimes you see how humanity can rise above any kind of cultural ills and hate that a person's capacity to love and communicate and forgive can be bigger than anything else.

I have no animosity against any living soul.

One forgives to the degree that one loves.

May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.

I have no enemies and no hatred. None of the police who monitored, arrested, and interrogated me, none of the prosecutors who indicted me, and none of the judges who judged me are my enemies.

Rediscovering the wisdom of love and compassion may help us survive at a time when an increasingly balkanized world so badly needs it.

Sooner or later, if man is ever to be worthy of his destiny, we must fill our hearts with tolerance.

We pardon to the extent that we love.

In order to have understanding, you need forgiveness, compassion, and empathy.

People have been unkind to me, but I do not want to swear vengeance. I am a simple human being.

'Laramie' is a way in to replacing any hate in your heart with understanding, compassion, and acceptance.

I don't believe revenge is part of my agenda. I'm a firm believer that, just like hate spreads hate, love and kindness spread love and kindness.

We're all people. We all need to just try and find a way to love each other and accept each other and try and make the world a better place.

Your Reverence, I do not hate any man in this world enough to inflict the results of my prayers upon him.

I am pleading for the future; I am pleading for a time when hatred and cruelty will not control the hearts of men. When we can learn by, reason and judgment and understanding and faith that all life is worth saving, and that mercy is the highest attribute of man.