Anne Rice Quotes

We signal that good can be achieved amongst human beings who are prepared to trust, prepared to believe in the goodness of people.

Only a fool can believe people are basically good

I believe people are genuinely good. I don’t like to see the bad in people, so because of that, I could see myself falling into a bad situation. But thankfully, I haven’t yet.

It reinforced everything that I believe. I am an optimist. I believe in the goodness of people.

I always seek the good that is in people and leave the bad to Him who made mankind and knows how to round off the corners.

I believe in the basic goodness of my species, because that appears to be a positive tactic and quality that leads to better chances of survival- and in spite of our foolishness, we seem to have survived.

I believe most people are essentially good. I know that I am. It's you I'm not entirely sure of.

I have a fundamental faith in folk, that people are interesting and good.

That's what everyone thinks--they think being a cop is about punishing people for doing wrong. But that's not true. You know it isn't. It's about believing in people, believing in the good. In the will of people to do what's right despite their own instincts.

The desire to believe the best of people is a prerequisite for intercourse with strangers; suspicion is reserved for friends.

All right I think we've been down here in the dark long enough. There's a whole other world upstairs. Take my hand Constant Reader and I'll be happy to lead you back into the sunshine. I'm happy to go there because I believe most people are essentially good. I know that I am. It's you I'm not entirely sure of.

Sometimes when you love people, you want to believe they're good.

I really do see the good in people, and I don't want to change that.

I cannot bring myself to believe that any human being lives who would do me any harm.

If our 'message' is anything, it's a positive approach to life. That life is basically good. People are basically good.

Humanity is good. Some people are terrible and broken, but humanity is good. I believe that.

To me it seems to be important to believe people to be good even if they tend to be bad, because your own joy and happiness in life is increased that way, and the pleasures of the belief outweigh the occasional disappointments. To be a cynic about people works just the other way around and makes you incapable about enjoying the good things.

In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can’t build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery, and death. I see the world gradually being turned into a wilderness, I hear the ever approaching thunder, which will destroy us too, I can feel the sufferings of millions and yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right, that this cruelty too will end, and that peace and tranquility will return again.

I've always thought, and it gets tested at times, that I have a great faith in the fundamental goodness of human beings.

I think there's a good kid underneath everybody. I really do.

I believe that, by and large, people are good and everybody you meet is more likely to surprise you in a positive way than in a negative way.

I am a person who believes in the good of people and who may have had things influence them to a certain degree, but deep down I think most people are good and would like to be good.

I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.

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

I think inevitably over the course of my lifetime there's been an underestimation of the American people, and I believe they are really the ones that give me hope. There's so much of "they don't know this, and they don't know that," and they're always denigrating.