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Quotes About Compassion

To love God truly, one must first love man. And if anyone tells you that he loves God and does not love his fellow-man, you will know that he is lying.
~ Martin Buber
No matter whether you claim a slave by purchase or capture, the title is bad. They who claim to own their fellow-men, look down into the pit and forget the justice that should rule the world.
~ Zeno of Citium
Man's highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.
~ Émile Zola
A true man does not only stand up for himself, he stands up for those that do not have the ability to.
~ William Lyon Mackenzie King
Don't judge a man by where he is, because you don't know how far he has come.
~ C. S. Lewis
I had to do something. A young man came into my home for protection. Is he dangerous? No. Is he a spy? No. Is he a traitor? No. He's just a Jewish teenager who wants to leave.
~ Chiune Sugihara
Most men worry about their own bellies and other people's souls, when we all ought to be worried about our own souls and other people's bellies.
~ Yisroel Salanter
Empathy is the poor man's cocaine, and love is just a chemical by any other name
~ Eyedea
We say here that if you fall down in the United States, the ambulance man must feel for your wallet before he feels for your pulse.
~ George Galloway
Cast off all bonds of prejudice and custom, and let the love of Christ, which is in you, have free course to run out in all conceivable schemes and methods of labour for the souls of men.
~ Catherine Booth
I refuse to allow any man-made differences to separate me from any other human beings.
~ Maya Angelou
I do not know what the heart of a bad man is like. But i do know what the heart of a good man is like. And it is terrible.
~ Ivan Turgenev
The man who kills the animals today is the man who kills the people who get in his way tomorrow.
~ Dian Fossey
The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
If you do not help a man with his troubles, it is equivalent to bringing troubles to him.
~ Nachman of Breslov
One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
~ William Butler Yeats
There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.
~ Charles Darwin
My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my father never hit me. Never. I don't ever remember a really cross, unkind word from my father.
~ Johnny Cash
The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.
~ Émile Zola
Wealthy men can't live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance.
~ Ayrton Senna
If you are suffering from a bad man's injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.
~ Saint Augustine
There is no happiness higher than what a man obtains by this attitude of non-offensiveness, to all creation.
~ Swami Vivekananda
An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
He who lowers his mind to the dust of all men's feet, Sees the Name of God enshrined in every heart.
~ Guru Arjan