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We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.
Anna Sewell
/ Black Beauty
My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.
Anna Sewell
/ Black Beauty
Let the elderly, women, and children lie by the roadside without fear of harm.
Kamehameha I
/ Kānāwai Māmalahoe (1797)
Charity should be abolished; and be replaced by justice.
Norman Bethune
/ The Politics of Passion: Norman Bethune’s Writing and Art
The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
Booker T. Washington
/ Up from Slavery: An Autobiography
Put away anger from the heart and do not show resentment; do not be angered when others act differently.
Prince Shotoku
/ Seventeen-Article Constitution (Source is unconfirmed).
Harmony is to be valued and quarrels avoided.
Prince Shotoku
/ Seventeen-Article Constitution (Source is unconfirmed).
At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done—then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
/ The Secret Garden (1911)
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens
/ Our Mutual Friend
How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature which interest him in the fortune of others.
Adam Smith
/ The Theory of Moral Sentiments
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
Anne Frank
/ The Diary of a Young Girl
The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.
Albert Schweitzer
/ Various writings
What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?
George Eliot
/ Middlemarch
True happiness comes from making others happy.
Kenji Miyazawa
/ General philosophy
With no mind, flowers lure the butterfly; With no mind, the butterfly visits the blossoms. Yet when flowers bloom, the butterfly comes; When the butterfly comes, the flowers bloom.
Ryokan
/ Poetry
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain—and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.
Dale Carnegie
/ How to Win Friends and Influence People
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Mahatma Gandhi
/ Attributed
An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
Mahatma Gandhi
/ Attributed
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
Robert Louis Stevenson
/ Essays
Always be a little kinder than necessary.
J. M. Barrie
/ Speech
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