Storm Jameson Quotes

When we care about people, we care less about money, and when we care about money, we care less about people.

Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try and give their best qualities to men - bring them softness, teach them how to cry.

My concern is how we learn to be genuine human beings.

Men are fair, and they have learned not to personalize anger - they can disagree with you and argue to the bone, but afterward they still consider you a nice person with whom the underlying human relationship need not be altered.

My main hope is eventually, in modern education field, introduce education about warm-heartedness, not based on religion, but based on common experience and a common sort of sense, and then scientific finding.

For me, first of all, I love people, I love ideas.

I don't want our youth to become anti-romantic. We have to make room for the soul.

Because I've spent most of my life with such a beautiful, talented, challenging female, I feel I've gained - and am still gaining - a great deal of knowledge about the feminine mystique and about personal relationships - knowledge which is so important to a writer.

Human beings are created with empathy. Art serves that purpose. So why should I be disinterested in a character who's a man, and why should a man shy away from a show that's female-driven?

Why is it so hard for men to identify with women as fellow travelers on this good Earth?

The problem isn't how to make the world more technological. It's about how to make the world more humane again.

If women understand by emancipation the adoption of the masculine role then we are lost indeed. If women can supply no counterbalance to the blindness of male drive the aggressive society will run to its lunatic extremes at ever-escalating speed. Who will safeguard the despised animal faculties of compassion, empathy, innocence and sensuality?

We live in a culture that discourages empathy. A culture that too often tells us our principle goal in life is to be rich, thin, young, famous, safe, and entertained.

No matter how many weapons you have, no matter how great your technology might be, the world cannot live without love.

Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness.

The problem isn't to learn to love humanity, but to learn to love those members of it who happen to be at hand.

We can bring a heart of understanding and compassion to a world that needs it so much.

No rules, however wise, are a substitute for affection and tact.

When you meet anyone in the flesh you realize immediately that he is a human being and not a sort of caricature embodying certain ideas. It is partly for this reason that I don't mix much in literary circles, because I know from experience that once I have met and spoken to anyone I shall never again be able to feel any intellectual brutality towards him, even when I feel I ought to - like the Labour M.P.s who get patted on the back by dukes and are lost forever more.

No, I'm not clever. I've always cared more for people than for ideas.

How much more precious is a little humanity than all the rules in the world.

We should care for each other more than we care for ideas, or else we will end up killing each other.

We all need basic human values rooted in trust and affection.

The world does not understand theology or dogma, but it understands love and sympathy.

People are more important than things.