Neal Shusterman Quotes

I am a compassionate human being. I am who I am.

I feel compassion is so important to develop in ourselves. It's one of the most important elements of being a human being.

I always aim to understand how much humanity is contained in each human being and how I can protect this humanity in a person.

People can be ignorant and still have loving, human qualities.

I would like to show that I have a heart, that I am a human being and I have feelings. And to be this kind of role model, not only for beauty pageants but also for life.

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.

Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste.

Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin.

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.

It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.

I'm very human.

I'm human, I feel, I understand. That's the highest level of love, is understanding - when you can understand someone, when you can love them with their flaws and their faults. So I understand, I consider. I may speak the truth, but I'll consider your feelings, too.

I am a human being; nothing human can be alien to me.

I have empathy; I am humane. I understand human misery.

I am just a human being trying to make it in a world that is rapidly losing its understanding of being human.

I always think you have to show a degree of humanity and sensitivity when you're dealing with people in extreme circumstances.

There's gotta be a human being in everybody, regardless of what they do or what people think they did.

I've learned not to be such a show-off and to have a bit more empathy with humanity. Or at least to fake that.

We need to learn to accept and certainly mourn any harm that comes to any human being on this earth. But we also need to not be vengeful.

I think, at the end of the day, acting and activism are both about empathy. You're trying to get people to see other people as real and human. And to care.

Education teaches us compassion and kindness, connection to others.

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

On a film set, it's important to be good at your work, but it's also important to be a compassionate and understanding human being.

If you can understand, you can feel compassion.

Every now and then, I am reminded it's not always about politics. It's about people.