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Quotes about Compassion

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.
- St. Augustine
If we cannot give freedom to every creature, let us do nothing that will impose slavery upon any other creature.
- Abraham Lincoln
Because we are free, we can never be indifferent to the fate of freedom elsewhere.
- Jimmy Carter
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God cannot retain it.
- Abraham Lincoln
The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln
All friendly feelings toward others come from the friendly feelings a person has for himself.
- Aristotle
Two in distressmake sorrow less.
- Samuel Beckett
To lose a friend is the greatest of all losses.
- Publilius Syrus
The true way and the sure way to friendship is through humility-being open to each other, accepting each other just as we are, knowing each other.
- Mother Teresa
We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends behave to us
- Aristotle
Make allowances for your friends' imperfections as readily as you do for your own.
- H Jackson Brown, Jr.