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Quotes About Compassion

As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behavior toward creatures, all men were Nazis.
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
The way we're going to get to understanding is for each man to open his heart and open his mind and look in himself as he looks at his neighbor.
~ Pearl Bailey
The community of man should be treated in the same way you would treat your community of brothers or fellow citizens.
~ Pierre Trudeau
You should help a man to take up a burden, but you should not help him put it back down.
~ Pythagoras
Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.
~ Oscar Wilde
The chief source of man's inhumanity to man seems to be the tribal limits of his sense of obligation to other men.
~ Reinhold Niebuhr
Kill if you must, but never hate: Man is but grass and hate is blight, The sun will scorch you soon or late, Die wholesome then, since you must fight
~ Robert Graves
The man who holds that every human right is secondary to his profit must now give way to the advocate of human welfare.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.
~ A. D. Gordon
It is your duty to be exceedingly kind to every human being...until ye change the world of man into the world of God.
~ Abdu'l-Bahá
Next to creating a life the finest thing a man can do is save one.
~ Abraham Lincoln
God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Jesus Christ came to tell men that they have no enemies but themselves.
~ Blaise Pascal
God is love, and that love works through men-especially through the whole community of Christians.
~ C. S. Lewis
A man is not wealthy simply by the contents of his pockets alone, but instead by the richness of his heart.
~ Robert M. Hensel
Send light to the dark hearts of men, that is the duty the artist.
~ Robert Schumann
It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.
~ Sophocles
If men must beg to live, May the Creator also go wandering and perish.
~ Thiruvalluvar
A man that don't love a horse, there is something the matter with him.
~ Will Rogers
Scenes of blood and cruelty are shocking to our ear and heart. What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
If you're tired and pooped out all the time, do you have love and compassion in your heart for your fellow man? You don't even like yourself!
~ Jack LaLanne
Where men of fine feeling are concerned there is seldom misunderstanding.
~ John Paul Jones
Whenever man forgets that man is an animal, the result is always to make him less humane.
~ Joseph Wood Krutch
If your knowledge teaches you not to rise above human weakness and misery and lead your fellow man on the right path, you are indeed a man of little worth and will remain such till Judgment Day.
~ Khalil Gibran