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Quotes About Compassion

I am for Socialism because I am for humanity.
~ Eugene V. Debs
Hate is holding back humanity from its full potential.
~ Christofer Drew
The fate of you, the aristocracy of industry, will be as the fate of the aristocracy of land if you do not show that you have some humanity still among you.
~ James Larkin
Never have I met a person doing terrible things who would meet my own eyes peacefully. To gaze into another person's face is to do two things: to recognize their humanity, and to assert your own.
~ Lawrence Hill
Doesn't make any difference who we are or what we are, there's always somebody to look down on.
~ Mark Twain
If everyone would take only according to his needs and would leave the surplus to the needy, no one would be rich, no one poor, no one in misery.
~ Saint Basil
Humanitarian convictions are the linchpins of our salvation, and these an artist must champion.
~ Eric Maisel
After embracing Islam in 1977, I considered the majority of underprivileged dark-skinned people of the so-called Third World brothers and sisters in humanity.
~ Cat Stevens
A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.
~ Jean Rostand
Animal protection is education to the humanity.
~ Albert Schweitzer
Start at once a bedside library and spend the last half hour of the day in communion with the saints of humanity.
~ William Osler
You saw the traumas that people lived through, and wondered what it will take to move us as a human community, as humanity, to help in these dangerous situations.
~ Kofi Annan
In solitude we realize that nothing human is alien to us.
~ Henri J.M. Nouwen
I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
Vegetarianism serves as the criterion by which we know that the pursuit of moral perfection on the part of humanity is genuine and sincere.
~ Leo Tolstoy
It is a terrible, an inexorable, law that one cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own: in the face of one's victim, one sees oneself.
~ James A. Baldwin
Without animals, there would be no humanity. In a world of just people, people will mean nothing . . .
~ Chuck Palahniuk
If Bush said just once: 'Boy. I hope you accept my apology as a country,' or showed some humanity.
~ Burt Bacharach
We are all brothers under the skin - and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it.
~ Ayn Rand
Scholarship that is indifferent to human suffering is immoral.
~ Richard Levins
There is only one way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one's own life, to exemplify man's humanity to man.
~ Alan Paton
I am a human being, so nothing human is strange to me.
~ Terence
All of our humanity is dependent upon recognizing the humanity in others
~ Desmond Tutu
True delicacy, that most beautiful heart-leaf of humanity, exhibits itself most significantly in little things.
~ Mary Howitt