"Pity is treason." — Maximilien Robespierre

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• If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will… — Francis of Assisi
• Those who do not complain are never pitied. — Jane Austen
• What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country. — Joseph Addison
• It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity. — Stephen Vincent Benet
• Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too. — William Blake
• In the inner city, there's a mentality that the government owes you something. My breakthrough came when I stopped feeling… — Mary J. Blige
• I learnt pity, sympathy, and what it was like to be at the other end of the stick. Such lessons… — Lionel Blue
• It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others,… — W. E. B. Du Bois
• The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state; infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies; and… — David Brainerd
• When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive. — Miguel de Cervantes
• The sea has neither meaning nor pity. — Anton Chekhov

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