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Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

~Albert Schweitzer

Topics: Attain Breadth Compassion Creatures Depth Does Embraces Ethics Full Itself Limit Living Living Creatures Mankind Must Only Root Take Which

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I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.

~Albert Schweitzer

Topics: Before Beginning Compassion Ethics Everything Foundation Life Other Than I Can

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Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.

~Albert Schweitzer

Topics: Circle Compassion Find He Himself His Include Living Man Peace Things Until Will

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Two words guided the making of 'Babel' for me: 'dignity' and 'compassion.' These things are normally forgotten in the making of a lot of films. Normally there is not dignity because the poor and dispossessed in a place like Morocco are portrayed as mere victims, or the Japanese are portrayed as cartoon figures with no humanity.

~Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Topics: Because Cartoon Compassion Dignity Figures Films Forgotten Guided Humanity Japanese Like Lot Making Me Mere Morocco Normally Place Poor Portrayed Things Two Victims Words

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Righteous is the one who was able to demonstrate compassion in face of human suffering.

~Aleksander Kwasniewski

Topics: Able Compassion Demonstrate Face Human Human Suffering Righteous Suffering Who

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For most people, using the Internet broadens their sense of who 'we' is and actually ends up leaving us in a place of greater compassion and understanding. It leaves us more connected to a larger group of people and more at one with a lot more people in our community.

~Alex Steffen

Topics: Actually Community Compassion Connected Ends Greater Group Internet Larger Leaves Leaving Lot More More People Most Our Our Community People Place Sense Understanding Up Us Using Who

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When you are young, you cannot imagine being disabled. You imagine you would conquer it somehow. As I've got older, I can imagine it; I can see how life narrows in. I feel compassion for my mother now.

~Alice Munro

Topics: Being Cannot Compassion Conquer Disabled Feel Got How Imagine Life Mother Now Older See Somehow Would You Young I Feel I Can

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We're told compassion comes not from generosity but from compliance. We're told kindness means raiding a man's hard-earned wages and sending them off to Washington so they - not you - may dole them out in courtesies and indulgences.

~Allen West

Topics: Compassion Compliance Courtesy Dole Generosity Kindness Man May Means Off Out Sending Them Wages Washington You

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Compassion comes from a choice and not the liberal definition of a choice - the choice to say I can do with a little less so my brother can have a little more.

~Allen West

Topics: Brother Choice Compassion Definition Less Liberal Little More Say I Can

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Of course we have compassion. We just don't believe the safety net should be used as a hammock.

~Allen West

Topics: Believe Compassion Course Hammock Just Net Safety Safety Net Should Used

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