“A kind reminder that every human is a person. Your parents, your teachers, every waitress, every stranger on the train, the homeless man on the sidewalk . . . all people. Treat everyone with warmth and be equally respectful to them all. Thank you”— Connor Franta, twitter.com
“Nice is not the same as kind. Nice is not the same as ethical. Nice is not the same as moral. The older I get, the less interested I am in 'nice.' Nice is the gift wrap; it says nothing about what’s inside.”— Cora Harrington, twitter.com
“nice, adj.: You use it like it's an insult when the insulting thing is you thinking of it that way. I'd much rather be nice than not nice.”— David Levithan, twitter.com
“My father had taught me to be nice first, because you can always be mean later, but once you’ve been mean to someone, they won’t believe the nice anymore. So be nice, be nice, until it’s time to stop being nice, then destroy them.”— Laurell K. Hamilton, amazon.com
“I gave up nice a long time ago. Nice did me no good as a woman. Niceness is a lie they teach you to keep you sweet and compliant while you’re screaming inside. You know what I picked instead? Kindness. I chose to be kind. Kind means I respect your boundaries and you respect mine.”— Sara Benincasa, medium.com
“My father had taught me to be nice first, because you can always be mean later, but once you’ve been mean to someone, they won’t believe the nice anymore. So be nice, be nice, until it’s time to stop being nice, then destroy them.”— Laurell K. Hamilton, amazon.com
“My father had taught me to be nice first, because you can always be mean later, but once you've been mean to someone, they won't believe the nice anymore. So be nice, be nice, until it's time to stop being nice, then destroy them.”— Laurell K. Hamilton, amazon.com
“We must learn and then teach our children that niceness does not equal goodness. Niceness is a decision, a strategy of social interaction; it is not a character trait. People seeking to control others almost always present the image of a nice person in the beginning.”— Gavin De Becker, amazon.com