Kindness Quotes

Small acts. Big impact. These quotes make the case for compassion as a way of life.

23791 quotes

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"Kindness is a way of recognizing our shared humanity with strangers."
Ahmed, Sara
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"Kindness is a choice made consciously, often against the current of our fear."
Ahmed, Sara
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"We must practice solidarity as a discipline of attention."
Muñoz, José Esteban
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"Care and compassion are not sentimental but foundational to ethical living."
Braidotti, Rosi
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"Kindness is radical when it is extended to those who are othered."
Braidotti, Rosi
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"Kindness is the currency of a civilized society."
Law, John
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"Kindness is the invisible force that holds society together."
Law, John
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"We must cultivate an ethics of care and attention to difference"
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"Good care requires attention to the messy, material realities of bodies and things."
Mol, Annemarie
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"Care is the work of keeping the world livable, moment by moment."
Mol, Annemarie
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"To care is to be vulnerable, to be open to the needs of others."
Mol, Annemarie
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"Care is an art, requiring sensitivity to the particular needs of others."
Mol, Annemarie
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"Care requires ongoing attention, not a one-time intervention."
Mol, Annemarie
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"Care is the everyday work of maintaining the livability of the world."
Mol, Annemarie
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"Kindness is the evidence that love exists in the world."
Ahmed, Sara
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"Kindness is the language every heart understands and needs."
Ahmed, Sara
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"Care is a practice that acknowledges our mutual vulnerability and interdependence."
Haraway, Donna
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"We must cultivate what I call 'response-ability,' the ability to respond to others."
Haraway, Donna
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"Kindness creates the bonds that hold society together."
Callon, Michel
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"Every person matters because every person shapes the network."
Callon, Michel
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"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."
Law, John
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"Kindness is the most beautiful language."
Law, John
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"We need to cultivate affirmative practices that honor the complexity of our entanglement with others."
Braidotti, Rosi
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"Difference is not something to be tolerated but something to be engaged with and learned from."
Mol, Annemarie
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"The ethics of care demands that we consider all the beings involved and affected."
Mol, Annemarie
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"Care is the work of maintaining, sustaining, and enabling life in all its forms."
Mol, Annemarie
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"Resonance with others is the foundation of ethical life."
Hartmut, Rosa
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"Kindness emerges from the willingness to slow down for others."
Hartmut, Rosa
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"Care is not a sentiment; it is a practice and a form of responsibility."
Haraway, Donna
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"We must learn to think with-and-for others, not about them."
Haraway, Donna