Compassion Quote by C.S. Lewis

Those who profess contempt for men, and put them on a level with beasts, yet wish to be admired and believed by men, and…

— Blaise Pascal

“The divinization of Man, when one abhors the order of the world as essentially evil, is a risky and self-contradictory venture.”

— Czesław Miłosz

Impelled by feelings that were primal yet paradoxically wholly impersonal. Feelings of contempt born of inchoate, unacknowledged fear--civilization's fear of nature, men's fear of…

— Arundhati Roy

“Nevertheless, let no one boast. Just as every man, though he be the greatest genius, has very definite limitations in some one sphere of…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Today we hear a great deal about Organizational Men, Mass Culture, Conformity, the Lonely Crowd, the Power Elite and its Conspiracy of Mediocrity. We…

— Kenneth Rexroth

“The thinking man must oppose all cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a…

— Anonymous

“And what does it amount to?" said Satan, with his evil chuckle. "Nothing at all. You gain nothing; you always come out where you…

— Mark Twain

“Most writers on the emotions and on human conduct seem to be treating rather of matters outside nature than of natural phenomena following nature's…

— Baruch Spinoza

“imperceptible, element of contempt for those over whom the power is exercised. One can only dominate another human soul if one knows, understands, and…

— Sándor Márai

“If you could only speak the devil fair enough, he might save you the cost of the doctor. Such strange lingering echoes of the…

— George Eliot

“The group of people that are insulting the society with ungodliness are those that are out rightly known with ungodliness and those that try…

— Sunday Adelaja

The emotions of the ignorant man are continuously kept at a pitch by the most blood-curdling stories about Anarchism. Not a thing too outrageous…

— Emma Goldman