Additional Pearl S. Buck quote

I enjoy life because I am endlessly interested in people and their growth. My interest leads me to widen my knowledge of people, and this in turn compels me to believe in the common goodness of mankind. I believe that the normal human heart is born good. That is, it’s born sensitive and feeling, eager to be approved and to approve, hungry for simple happiness and the chance to live. It neither wishes to be killed, nor to kill. If through circumstances, it is overcome by evil, it never becomes entirely evil. There remain in it elements of good, however recessive, which continue to hold the possibility of restoration. -Pearl S. Buck

This is so on the mark Wild Dove, this quote is exactly how I have always felt about mankind, some say I am Naieve because I believe that we all still have good in us know matter how evil we become. I have always gave each person the benefit of the doubt even when someone has said this or that about their character. I am too trusting some say, but you have to place trust in people until they show you differently.

Right on! I always wondered 'how' Pearl S. Buck became so profound. Her time spent in China must have done the trick. I am so often sensed by the way Americans and their European counterparts as a society have become so callous, yet I am reminded there are at least 4.5 BILLION humans who, as far as we know STILL DON'T BEHAVE LIKE US NOR DO THEY WANT TO!!!!!