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“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.”

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Book:Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition
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“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.”

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Book:The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi
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“Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.”

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Author:Dalai Lama
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“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.”

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Author:Dalai Lama
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“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”

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Book:The Wisdom of Compassion: Stories of Remarkable Encounters and Timeless Insights
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“The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.”

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Author:Albert Schweitzer
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“The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.”

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Author:George Bernard Shaw
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“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”

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Book:Where There Is Love, There Is God: A Path to Closer Union with God and Greater Love for Others
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“The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.”

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Author:Alice Walker
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“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”

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Author:Albert Einstein
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“I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.”

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Author:Abraham Lincoln
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“To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.”

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Book:My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi
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“We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.”

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Book:Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition
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“The fairy tale emanates from specific struggles to humanize bestial and barbaric forces, which have terrorized our minds and communities in concrete ways, threatening to destroy free will and human compassion. The fairy tale sets out to conquer this concrete terror through metaphors.”

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Book:When Dreams Came True: Classical Fairy Tales and Their Tradition
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“We experience ourselves our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.”

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Book:Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century
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“My husband, Andrius, says that evil will rule until good men or women choose to act. I believe him. This testimony was written to create an absolute record, to speak in a world where our voices have been extinguished. These writing may shock or horrify you, but that is not my intention. It is my greatest hope that the pages in this jar stir your deepest well of human compassion. I hope they prompt you to do something, to tell somone. Only then can we ensure that this kind of evil is never allowed to repeat itself.”

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Author:Ruta Sepetys
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“Hey!" I exclaimed, seeing the total. "They're charging me retail. Glenn!" I complained. "They can't do that." I shook it at him. "I shouldn't have to pay retail!" "What did you expect? You can keep that. It's your copy." I sat back in a huff and shoved it in my bag with my sticky scarf as he typed his slow, painful way through my report. "Where's this human compassion I keep hearing about?" "That's it, baby doll," he said, voice smoother than usual. He was laughing at me.”

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Book:Black Magic Sanction
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“Humanity's true moral test, its fundamental test…consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals.”

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Author:Milan Kundera
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“How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.”

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Author:George Washington Carver
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“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. I hold that the more helpless a creature the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of humankind.”

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Author:Mahatma Gandhi
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“Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.”

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Author:Seneca the Younger
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“The indifference, callousness and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering in animals, and second because it results in an incalculably great impoverishment of the human spirit.”

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Author:Albert Einstein
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“In democratic ages men rarely sacrifice themselves for another, but they show a general compassion for all the human race. One never sees them inflict pointless suffering, and they are glad to relieve the sorrows of others when they can do so without much trouble to themselves. They are not disinterested, but they are gentle.”

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Book:Democracy in America
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“There’s been a problem, a problem eating away at me from the inside out. I’ve become weak, I’ve shown human compassion, and it has weakened me. But no more. Tonight I will once again feast on fear and suffering. My appetite for agony will be awakened. I will once again taste the pain of others. I will feast on the fear of the innocent, and that is the sweetest taste of all. Tonight I hunger for a sacrifice.”

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Author:Kane
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“A good deed done to an animal is as meritorious as a good deed done to a human being, while an act of cruelty to an animal is a bad as an act of cruelty to a human being.”

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Author:Muhammad
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“While it is true that the taking of life not yet born or in it's final stages is sometimes marked by a mistaken sense of altruism and human compassion it cannot be denied that such a culture of death, taken as a whole, betrays a completely individualistic concept of freedom, which ends up by becoming the freedom of "the strong" against the weak who have no choice but to submit.”

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Author:Pope John Paul II
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“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe; a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts, and his feelings as something separate from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of consciousness.”

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Book:The Ultimate Quotable Einstein
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“Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.”

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Book:Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century
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“The revolution and women's liberation go together. We do not talk of women's emancipation as an act of charity or out of a surge of human compassion. It is a basic necessity for the revolution to triumph. Women hold up the other half of the sky.”

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Book:We are Heirs of the World's Revolutions: Speeches from the Burkina Faso Revolution, 1983-87
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