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A Quote by Albert Einstein on day, death, fate, happiness, labor, life, men,...

From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of each other - above all for those upon whose smile and well-being our own happiness depends,...

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A Quote by J.M. Coetzee on animals, holocaust, sympathy, and animal rights

The question to ask should not be: Do we have something in commong - reason, self-consciousness, a soul - with other animals? (With the corollary that, if we do not, then we are entitled to treat them...

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A Quote by Cheri Huber on change the world, fix the world, fix, change,...

It is not my experience that we are here to fix the world, that we are here to change anything at all.  I think we are here so the world can change us.  And if part of that change is that the suffering...

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A Quote by Domus Ulixes on victorious and sympathy

To be victorious, one does not need sympathy.However, to be triumphant, one cannot do without compassion. Contributed by:  Domus Ulixes read more

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A Quote by Sri Chinmoy on human struggle, sympathy, and empathy

Be kind, be all sympathy, For each and every human being  Is forced to fight against himself. Source:  Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, by Sri Chinmoy Contributed by:  Shane read more

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A Quote by Walter Russell on sorrow, sympathy, love, balance, illness,...

Even sorrow or sympathy for the afflicted, or grief for the passing of loved ones, unbalances the body cells and makes one vulnerable to infections or destructive toxins, for such emotions have no...

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A Quote by Kenneth Smith on philosophy, students, suffering, thinking,...

Because of the very intimate character of philosophical norms and criticisms, a teacher in philosophy has to be like Alexander the Great:  never issuing dictates as to what his soldiers ought to do...

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A Quote by Harold Kushner on god, unfairness, life, and sympathy

Our responding to life's unfairness with sympathy... may be the surest proof of all of God's reality. Contributed by:  gzusgirl read more

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A Quote by Kenneth Smith on philosophy, sympathy, aristoi, shame, and...

The demand for sympathy is a major form of rhetorical ploy, freighted with massive ulterior motives: it is a way of shaming higher minds into not daring to characterize or recognize the actual nature...

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A Quote by Agnes E. Myer on morals, sympathy, conviction, and split personality

We have become morally confused as a people, and possess neither the human sympathy nor the corporate will to put our inner convictions into practice.  We are split personalities. Source:  Journey...

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