George Orwell Quotes

We have to always hope in humanity that people will make the right choices.

Between friends there is no need for justice, but people who are just still need the quality of friendship; and indeed friendliness is considered to be justice in the fullest sense.

Ever since then I have known that if all the values in this world are more or less questionable, the most important thing in life is kindness.

I want to be a good human being. I'm doing my best, and I'm working at it.

As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.

Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.

I'm a big believer in human nature.

The American people have not become heartless.

Try to find the path of least resistance and use it without harming others. Live with integrity and morality, not only with people but with all beings.

Everyone's values are defined by what they will tolerate when it is done to others.

I believe in people, especially suffering people.

Human morality is unthinkable without empathy.

When I meet a new person, I am on the lookout for signs of what he or she is loyal to. It is a preliminary clue to the sense of belonging, and hence of his or her humanity.

Don't overestimate the decency of the human race.

One can not be just if one is not humane.

The most important thing is that you be a good person and you live by the golden rule of do unto others. If you live by that, that's all I care about.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Whoever saved a life, it would be as if he saved the life of all mankind

… we must regard all the changes which tend toward the uplift and survival of the human race as moral.

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

Seven social sins: politics without principles, wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, and worship without sacrifice.

Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.

It is only our humanity that can deliver us from the brutality of our achievements.

We're a compassionate nation.