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Quotes About Compassion

Above all nations is humanity.
~ Goldwin Smith
In any kind of conflict, you have a certain dehumanization that comes along with it. And it's important as a reporter, a writer, a journalist, to try to restore humanity.
~ Anthony Shadid
The Queen has done all she could on the dreadful subject of vivisection, and hopes that Mr. Gladstone will speak strongly against such a practice which is a disgrace to humanity.
~ Queen Victoria
Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity?
~ Cesar Chavez
Why should the law refuse its protection to any sensitive being? The time will come when humanity will extend its mantle over everything which breathes.
~ Jeremy Bentham
I love Humanity but I hate humans
~ Albert Einstein
Hast thou attuned thyself to the suffering of humanity, O candidate for light?
~ H. P. Blavatsky
...in serving the best interests of children, we serve the best interests of all humanity.
~ Carol Bellamy
In the last resort, a love of God without love of humanity is no love at all.
~ Hans Kung
Imagining what it is like to be someone other than yourself is at the core of our humanity. It is the essence of compassion, and it is the beginning of morality.
~ Ian Mcewan
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
~ Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
Until we begin to see each other as ourselves, nothing will change. We are one planet.
~ Peter Joseph
The most identifying trait of humanity is our abilty to be inhumane to one another.
~ Dean Koontz
The intolerance of the few, or the risk of it, carries the day against the wider humanity of the many.
~ Paul Robeson
I think there is a tendency for people to get rigid and caught up in their beliefs of what is right and wrong, and they lose sight of humanity. Being human has to come first before right or wrong.
~ Matisyahu
The Holocaust is not only a tragedy of the Jewish people, it is a failure of humanity as a whole.
~ Moshe Katsav
To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Humanity is good. Some people are terrible and broken, but humanity is good. I believe that.
~ Hank Green
10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.
~ Susan Sontag
The rising sun can dispel the darkness of night, but it cannot banish the blackness of malice, hatred, bigotry, and selfishness from the hearts of humanity.
~ David O. McKay
Your humanity is your instrument.
~ Wayne Shorter
Migrants and refugees are not pawns on the chessboard of humanity
~ Pope Francis
We need to have empathy. When we lose empathy, we lose our humanity.
~ Goldie Hawn
When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.
~ Elie Wiesel