Kindness Quotes

"The more understanding one has for how different people are, the more one sees the need for love."

"Charity is the duty of those who have to those who have not."

"Kindness between oppressed peoples strengthens their cause."

"We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own."

"Do not treat people merely as a means to your own ends."

"Forgiveness transcends punishment through love."

"Kindness follows from understanding necessity."

"Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure"

"The love of truth is the most essential part of good breeding"

"Charity begins at home, but should not end there"

"Kindness is not weakness; it is the strength of those who understand human suffering."

"The question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?"

"Extend benevolence to all creatures capable of suffering."

"Benevolence is the highest principle of morality."

"Cruelty is the absence of imagination and empathy."

"A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it illwill."

"You are not big enough to accuse me. But I will not accuse you either. I pass."

"We should not complain about those who conduct themselves badly. Instead, we should try to understand them."

"We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals."

"Every individual is obliged to contribute to the common good according to ability and means."

"Our moral obligations arise from our interconnectedness with all sentient beings."

"Kindness flows naturally from understanding the interconnected nature of all being."

"Examine well your blood, before you blame others of dulness."

"A man may be just to mankind and kind to individuals without sacrificing any of his liberties."

"Kindness is the expression of our common humanity."

"The capacity for the nobler feelings is in most natures a very tender plant, easily killed, not only by hostile influences, but by mere neglect."

"The greatest harm we can do to people is to assume they are what we see and treat them as such."

"We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own."

"Man's inhumanity to man is the greatest crime against reason."

"Every person possesses an inherent dignity that cannot be violated."