Kindness Quotes
The Dalai Lama and Ali, the fourth caliph, are at the top, with Shakespeare, Alice Bailey and Amit Ray. The sourced lines are not especially sweet. Oscar Wilde, in The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891), thought it immoral to use private property to relieve the evils that private property causes, and Disraeli, in Contarini Fleming (1832), says never to apologize for showing feeling, since you are apologizing for truth.
The passage that begins “I expect to pass through this world but once” is credited to Stephen Grellet and marked disputed. The notes show that it was first printed in a June 1869 magazine, writing of an unnamed Quaker. Two jokes are flagged as well: the best government being a benevolent tyranny tempered by assassination (Voltaire) and a kind word with a gun going farther than a kind word alone (Al Capone).
It is not sufficient to have compassion only for those who are cute.
Without all doubt, charity to the poor is a direct and obligatory duty upon all Christians.
Both man and womankind belie their nature
When they are not kind.
The greater the kindred is, the lesse the kindnesse must bee.
Sharing and cooperation must be taught instead of greed and competition.
I dread to think of a society devoid of love, compassion and humanity.