Class Quote by Clarence Darrow

“Stop constantly pity other people for how unfortunate and miserable they are, it's unpleasent to hear that repeadetly. A man who do not pity…

— Fergus MacDermott

Misery and poverty are so absolutely degrading, and exercise such a paralysing effect over the nature of men, that no class is ever really…

— Oscar Wilde

Those who have suffered, who have known poverty or oppression, are generally the most prone to kindness. Perhaps it is well to endure some…

— Arthur Lynch

Pity is a sense of our own misfortunes in those of another man; it is a sort of foresight of the disasters which may…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Any man can be kind when he is comfortable. I’d always thought kindness a trivial virtue, therefore. But when we were hungry, thirsty, sick,…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

Men in excess of happiness or misery are equally inclined to severity. Witness conquerors and monks! It is mediocrity alone, and a mixture of…

— Baron de Montesquieu

“If you see a person who is suffering from misery and sadness, wash it away with your compassion and kindness.”

— Debasish Mridha

It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.

— W. Somerset Maugham

“So true it is, and so terrible too, that up to a certain point the thought or sight of misery enlists our best affections;…

— Herman Melville

“Any man can be kind when he is comfortable. I'd always thought kindness a trivial virtue therefore. But when we were hungry, thirsty, sick,…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.

— Naomi Shihab Nye

“Up to the present man has hardly cultivated sympathy at all. He has merely sympathy with pain, and sympathy with pain is not the…

— Oscar Wilde