Laurie R. King Quotes

I prefer to be a good human being rather than a good character on screen.

The most important thing on Earth is for all of us to make this sentence true: Compassion is what people do.

It's just as important to be a good human being as it is to be a good actor.

What we showed you was you can have analytic reasoning that can be passionate.

Humanity is more important to me than talent... if there's a choice to make, I'll go humanity over talent every time.

All my actions have their rise in my inalienable love of mankind.

I am convinced that the act of thinking logically cannot possibly be natural to the human mind. If it were, then mathematics would be everybody's easiest course at school and our species would not have taken several millennia to figure out the scientific method.

It's compassion that makes gods of us.

Holmes serves as an ideal model of how we can learn to see and think better.

universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.

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

A religious man is a person... whose greatest passion is compassion.

Imagining what it is like to be someone other than yourself is at the core of our humanity. It is the essence of compassion, and it is the beginning of morality.

Suicide to them is an act of selfishness. Someone who is truly selfless does not think of himself often enough to desire death.

All the big words -virtue, justice, truth, ...- are dwarfed by the greatness of kindness

"Mr. Thornton," said Margaret, shaking all over with her passion, "go down this instant, if you are not a coward. Go down and face them like a man. Save these poor strangers, whom you have decoyed here. Speak to your workmen as if they were human beings. Speak to them kindly. Don't let the soldiers come in and cut down poor-creatures who are driven mad. I see one there who is. If you have any courage or noble quality in you, go out and speak to them, man to man."

Love thy neighbor as thyself because you are your neighbor. It is illusion that makes you think that your neighbor is someone other than yourself.

I think you gotta have an honesty and a humility about human nature and that it's not about you at the end of the day.

I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I'll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else.

Our problem is not that we're fallen; our problem is we haven't become human yet. The question is, what can make us human, so that we can give life away and give love away and not be grasping after trying to protect our own lives all the time? That's the way I see the Jesus story, and I think it's a powerful and profound story.

To love our neighbor in charity is to love God in man.

When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man.

God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing. Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.

Compassion has to become a discipline. It's something that you do. It's no good thinking that you agree with compassion or not, you've just got to do it. Just like it's no good agreeing that it's possible to float, you just have to get into the pool and then you learn that it's possible.

The small share of happiness attainable by man exists only insofar as he is able to cease to think of himself.