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Compassion Quotes by Albert Schweitzer
- Ethics cannot be based upon our obligations toward people, but they are complete and natural only when we feel this Reverence for Life and the…
- If there is anything I have learned about men and women, it is that there is a deeper spirit of altruism than is ever evident.…
- What does Reverence for Life say abut the relations between [humanity] and the animal world? Whenever I injury any kind of life I must be…
- When man learns to respect even the smallest being of creation...nobody has to teach him to love his fellow man. Compassion for animals is intimately…
- If the extension of your compassion does not include all living beings, then you will be unable to find peace by yourself.
- All people are endowed with the faculty of compassion, and for this reason can develop the humanitarian spirit.
- The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.
- Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid.
- Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not…
- Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.
- I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all…
- We must fight against the spirit of unconscious cruelty with which we treat the animals. Animals suffer as much as we do. True humanity does…
- For animals that are overworked, underfed, and cruelly treated; for all wistful creatures in captivity that beat their wings against bars; for any that are…
- The human spirit is not dead. It lives on in secret... It has come to believed that compassion, in which all ethics must take root,…
More Compassion Quotes
- Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day. — Karen Armstrong
- Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the… — Karen Armstrong
- If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life. — Karen Armstrong
- Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion… — Karen Armstrong
- Compassion is the key in Islam and Buddhism and Judaism and Christianity. They are profoundly similar. — Karen Armstrong
- If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men… — Francis of Assisi
- Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a… — Sri Aurobindo
- My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants; so much… — Teresa of Avila
- People confuse compassion with government being compassionate with other people's money versus people being compassionate with their own money. — Michele Bachmann
- Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. — James M. Barrie
- If Republicans are aiming for the heart, for compassion, the last thing they should do is abandon the sanctity of life. Instead,… — Gary Bauer
- One thing everyone seems to agree on is that Republicans face a perceived compassion deficit. — Gary Bauer