Ian Hacking Quotes

There are some great human beings out there. That's all I can say.

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 good in everybody.

When you read the news, and you see all this bad stuff happening, there's a tendency to lose faith in humanity. But I meet so many people who restore it and realize that, actually, 99 percent of people are great.

I am an optimist, and I try to think that the light will always prevail in any situation, so it doesn't really make me sad about humanity because I think, deep down, everybody is full of love and light.

I'm a big believer in human nature.

I haven't lost faith in human nature and I haven't decided to be less compassionate to strangers.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.

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.

Buckminster Fuller - he never lost faith in the goodness of humanity.

I love people, me, I believe in people. I love people too much.

'Les Miserables', the book, 'Les Miserables', the musical - it's about giving; it's about goodness. It's about compassion and love.

I am inspired when I see goodness in other people.

When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, 'Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.'

I'm a happy person, and I want everybody else to be happy. Nothing wrong with that.

If anything good came out of 9/11, to me, was that people were so cynical about the world - all you hear about on the news is all the bad stuff everyday, but what was refreshing to me was after that, you saw how many good people there are out there. For every one bad one, there's a thousand good ones.

Kindness and a generous spirit go a long way. And a sense of humor. It's like medicine - very healing.

It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.

Right now, I have to admit, that I'm more interested in giving people a little bit of hope and goodness.

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

In these times of stress, snark, division and despair, I still suspect that two of the most important features we possess are imagination and a capacity for goodness. Those are qualities for which we will be remembered most fondly.

My husband believes that he can make a difference. He loves people.

I think most folks are good folks.