Eric Hoffer Quotes About Compassion
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Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.
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It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.
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In the alchemy of man's soul almost all noble attributes- courage, honor, love, hope, faith, duty, loyalty, and so on - can be transmuted into ruthlessness. Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us. Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion, even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.
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Nature has no compassion. Nature accepts no excuses and the only punishment it knows is death.
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Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.
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Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul.
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