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Quotes About Humanity

Three-fourths of the people you will ever meet are hungering and thirsting for sympathy. Give it to them, and they will love you.
~ Dale Carnegie
We must never allow the voice of humanity within us to be silenced. It is humanity's sympathy with all creatures that first makes us truly human.
~ Albert Schweitzer
The world does not understand theology or dogma, but it understands love and sympathy.
~ Dwight L. Moody
You develop a sympathy for all human beings when you travel a lot.
~ Shakuntala Devi
Pity and need Make all flesh kin. There in no caste in blood.
~ Edwin Arnold
Perhaps the best hope for the future of mankind is that ways will be found of increasing the scope and intensity of sympathy.
~ Bertrand Russell
God does not live in structures of stone or brick. He lives in soft hearts warm with sympathy and fragrant with universal love.
~ Sathya Sai Baba
Sympathy, Love, Fortune... We all have these qualities but still tend to not use them!
~ Anne Frank
I have a deep sympathy with war; it so apes the gait and bearing of the soul.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy.
~ Giovanni Boccaccio
I have no commiseration for princes. My sympathies are reserved for the great mass of mankind ….
~ Henry Clay
It is a man's sympathy with all creatures that first makes him truly a man.
~ Albert Schweitzer
Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin
~ Yevgeny Yevtushenko
A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.
~ Joseph Conrad
No one really understands the grief or joy of another.
~ Franz Schubert
When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
~ Toni Morrison
Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
~ Pliny the Elder
Sympathy does not think. It acts. It acts to remove. The ceaseless sufferings. Of the world
~ Sri Chinmoy
His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be
~ Oscar Wilde
Never elated while one man's oppress'd; Never dejected while another's blessed.
~ Alexander Pope
If art does not enlarge men's sympathies, it does nothing morally.
~ George Eliot
Needs there groan a world in anguish just to teach us sympathy?
~ Robert Browning
O, ye who visit the distressed, do ye know that everything your money can buy, given with a cold, averted face, is not worth one honest tear shed in real sympathy?
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
Where pity is, for pity makes the world Soft to the weak and noble for the strong.
~ Edwin Arnold