Innate Benevolence Quotes

All men are born good.

The tendency of mans nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downward.

Human nature is disposed to do good.

Human nature is good, just as water seeks low ground. There is no man who is not good, just as there is no water that does not flow downward.

The charities of life are scattered everywhere, enameling the vales of human beings as the flowers paint the meadows. They are not the fruit of study, nor the privilege of refinement, but a natural instinct.

The center of human nature is rooted in ten thousand ordinary acts of kindness that define our days.

I think that people are innately good.

Genuine kindness is not what we do, it is what we are.

His universal compassion was due less to natural instinct, than to a profound conviction, a sum of thoughts that in the course of living had filtered through to his heart: for in the nature of man, as in rock, there may be channels hollowed by the dropping of water, and these can never be destroyed.

It has seemed to me that most people are generally good, in every race and in every country where I have been.

Children are born as emphatic and compassionate beings - so you don't have to teach them generosity, it's in their nature to be friendly.