Fellow Creature Quotes
17 quotes by 15 authors
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A stammering man is never a worthless one. Physiology can tell you why. It is an excess of sensibility to the presence of his fellow…
— Thomas Carlyle
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Of all the differences between man and the lower animals, the moral sense or conscience is by far the most important . . . [I]t…
— Charles Darwin
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It is not a case we are treating; it is a living, palpitating, alas, too often suffering fellow creature.
— John Brown
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Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
— Seneca the Younger
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It seems almost incredible that the advocates of liberty should conceive of the idea of selling a fellow creature to slavery.
— James Forten
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To see the convulsions, agonies and tortures of a poor fellow-creature, whom they cannot restore nor recompense, dying to gratify luxury and tickle callous and…
— George Cheyne
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If a man wants to be of the greatest possible value to his fellow-creature s let him begin the long, solitary task of perfecting himself.
— Robertson Davies
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The wolf is neither man's competitor nor his enemy. He is a fellow creature with whom the earth must be shared.
— L. David Mech
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The moment of finding a fellow-creature is often as full of mingled doubt and exultation, as the moment of finding an idea.
— George Eliot
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The man who submits to violence is debased by his compliance; but when he submits to that right of authority which he acknowledges in a…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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A man is not dependent upon his fellow creature, when he does not fear death.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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There would be no one there to live for her during those coming years; she would live for herself. There would be no powerful will…
— Kate Chopin
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You cannot love a fellow creature fully till you love God.
— C.S. Lewis
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…there would be no powerful will binding hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a…
— Kate Chopin
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It may...be judged indecent in me to come forward on this occasion; but when I see a fellow-creature about to perish through the cowardice of…
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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The real trouble is that 'kindness' is a quality fatally easy to attribute to ourselves on quite inadequate grounds. Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens…
— C.S. Lewis
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I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to…
— Stephan Grellet
Who Wrote These Fellow Creature Quotes
15 authors contributed a total of 17 Fellow Creature Quotes as follows: