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Quotes About Compassion

I know that thete are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that!
~ Tom Lehrer
The Lord is close to those whose hearts are breaking.
~ Bible
He who has never experienced hurt, cannot experience true love.
~ Tristan J. Loo
To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.
~ Jane Fonda
Everyone needs help from everyone.
~ Bertolt Brecht
Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.
~ Helen Keller
I shall not pass this way again: Then let me now relieve some pain, Remove some barrier from the road, Or brighten some one's heavy load.
~ Eva Rose Park
I think if I were dying and I heard of an act of injustice, it would start me up to a moment's life again.
~ Olive Schreiner
What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other?
~ George Eliot
In this world we must help one another.
~ Jean de La Fontaine
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
~ Herman Melville
In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all the ways we can.
~ William Barclay
He who lives only for himself is truly dead to others.
~ Publilius Syrus
Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.
~ Woodrow Wilson
Maturity begins to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself.
~ John MacNaughton
To be told we are loved is not enough. We must feel loved.
~ Lauren Hutton
Nothing has happened today except kindness.
~ Gertrude Stein
You know, we're all going in the same direction, or at least trying to. So we need to live together, get along together, and give each other enough space to be comfortable on that road.
~ Lillian Gideon
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
~ Plato
I'd like people to think of me as someone who cares about them.
~ Diana, Princess of Wales
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
~ Mark Twain
One of the most valuable things we can do to heal one another is listen to each other's stories.
~ Rebecca Falls
Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.
~ Johann von Goethe
The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.
~ Abigail Van Buren