Quotes About Humanity

Sympathy beyond the confines of man, that is, humanity to the lower animals, seems to be one of the latest moral acquisitions.

Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain.

They weren't impatient for the boys to turn into cartoons again. They awarded sympathy, gave compassion. Because deep down they had found parts of themselves in the characters. You said it George.

Chekhov will seek out the key situation in the life of a cabman or a charwoman, and make them glow for a brief moment in the tender light of his sympathy.

Anyone who has gone through great suffering is bound to have a greater sympathy and understanding of the problems of mankind.

It is only kindred griefs that draw forth our tears, and each weeps really for himself.

We should have a bond of sympathy for all sentient beings, knowing that only the depraved and base take pleasure in the sight of blood and suffering.

Moral progress has consisted in the main of protest against cruel customs, and of attempts to enlarge human sympathy.

The human heart finds nowhere shelter but in human kind.

He who has no sympathy with myths has no sympathy with men.

You have to have sympathy for the villain. Even the most disgusting ones, you have to find something to connect with. I try to put as much of myself in every single character that I play.

The world is full of tragedy; and sympathy, a little common sympathy, can do so much to soften the worst of grief. It is for the lack of that, that people despair and go down.

Man is one; and he hath one great heart. It is thus we feel, with a gigantic throb athwart the sea, each other's rights and wrongs; thus are we men.

What really arouses indignation against suffering is not suffering as such but the senselessness of suffering...

Never elated while one man's oppress'd Never dejected while another's bless'd.

A truly compassionate man gives a poor woman a portion of his meal before he eats, not after he has eaten.

If everyone realized the value of life, the world would be peaceful. The meaning of these words, "Do unto others as you would have them, do unto you, " would be understood: It would be practiced.

Sympathy of victims and humanity of us question the stronghold of integrity towards justice.

The man who melts With social sympathy though not allied Is of more worth than a thousand kinsmen.

You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.

All the world is my school and all humanity is my teacher.

No man is your enemy, no man is your friend, every man is your teacher.

Instead of sending guns, send books. Instead of sending weapons, send teachers.