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Quotes About Compassion

Then gently scan your brother man, Still gentler sister woman; Though they may gang a kennin' wrang, To step aside is human.
~ Robert Burns
The ideal man takes joy in doing favors for others.
~ Aristotle
You will be able to check envy if you rejoice with the man whom you envy whenever he rejoices, and grieve whenever he grieves.
~ Maximus the Confessor
Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.
~ Baruch Spinoza
To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.
~ Oscar Wilde
How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You can't scare him--he has known a fear beyond every other.
~ John Steinbeck
He who has renounced all violence towards all living beings, weak or strong, who neither kills nor causes others to kill - him I do call a holy man.
~ Gautama Buddha
To a man with an empty stomach food is God
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Men are only as great as they are kind.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Lend your light to the blind. Why should the wickedness of men irritate you, when it is only blindness?
~ Eugenio Maria de Hostos
I'm a man that has a vision as to how this world can be, and I've gathered myself through all the ordeals that I had to make me a well-rounded person and still fight for justice.
~ John Carlos
Before judging a thin man, one must get some information. Perhaps he was once fat.
~ Fernand Point
I am not a monster, I am just a man.
~ Ronnie Radke
The world laughs at another man's pain.
~ Jose Rizal
If a man look upon any other man and estimates that man as less than himself, then he is stealing from the other. He is stealing the other's birthright – that of equality.
~ Neville Goddard
liberty is the one thing no man can have unless he grants it to others.
~ Ruth Benedict
Jail doesn't teach anyone to do good, nor Siberia, but a man-yes! A man can teach another man to do good-believe me!
~ Maxim Gorky
It is not permissible to add to one's possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men. Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
~ Alan Paton
Often in this our life do we begin by cursing men and end by loving them. A sense of the common fallibility of all flesh makes us kin. No man is lovable who is invincible.
~ Neville Cardus
The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.
~ Clarence Darrow
Pray without ceasing on behalf of other men...For cannot he that falls rise again?
~ Ignatius of Antioch
One of the most basic things we can do is let the men in our lives know it's not okay to mistreat a woman.
~ Tim McGraw
If there's one thing you can say about mankind, there's nothing kind about man.
~ Tom Waits
If every man would help his neighbor, no man would be without help.
~ Bruce Lee