Morley Safer Quotes

We must challenge a culture that is based on too much meanness and not enough meaning.

Humanity, perhaps, that quality of benevolence that humans have, without irony, named after themselves.

The American people have not become heartless.

You can tell by the kindness of a dog how a human should be.

Human morality is unthinkable without empathy.

Any man who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad.

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

Compassion is not a dirty word. Compassion is not a sign of weakness. In my view, compassion in politics and in public policy is in fact a hallmark of great strength. It is a hallmark of a society which has about it a decency which speaks for itself.

The act of feeling what you believe other people feel is morally corosive.... If we want to be good and caring people, if we want to make the world a better place, then we are better off withouit empathy.

The feeling of compassion is the beginning of humanity.

Everybody has a heart. Except some people.

I know that war and mayhem run in our blood. I refuse to believe that they must dominate our lives. We humans are animals, too, but animals with amazing powers of rationality, morality, society. We can use our strength and courage not to savage each other, but to defend our highest purposes.

Why does God endow us with compassion?

Altruism is innate, but it's not instinctual. Everybody's wired for it, but a switch has to be flipped.

It really shocks me when I encounter people who think kindness doesn't matter. Because I think it's pretty much the only thing that matters.

Men are only as great as they are kind.

I think for really good-hearted people, that idea of putting yourself in the shoes of a monster to figure out why they acted that way, that's a really frightening idea.

Those who are compassionate when they should be tough will be tough when they should be compassionate.

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

I feel like the 'NCIS' set is where people are allowed to be the nice human beings they really are. That quality is valued there.

I don't see why it should be remarkable that you can acquire a reputation for fairness and decency. Those are qualities shared by so many people. And the great majority of people I meet are decent people, just trying to navigate their way through the world without causing too much trouble.

It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.

He who hates vice hates men.

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

Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are.