Francis Galton Quotes

May I never see in the patient anything but a fellow creature in pain.

One does not ask of one who suffers: What is your country and what is your religion? One merely says: You suffer, that is enough for me...

AIDS is a horrible disease, and the people who catch it deserve compassion.

Every hand and every hour should be devoted to rescue the world from its insanity of guilt, and to assuage the pangs of human hearts with balm and anodyne. To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

Instead of being satisfied to alleviate suffering, we shall labor hard and continually to prevent it.

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

I have empathy; I am humane. I understand human misery.

I do this because it pleases me, and there is nothing I would not do so as human effort goes, to advance any movement designed to reach and rescue perishing humanity. I have a heart for others and that is why I am in this work. When I see suffering about me, I myself suffer, and so when I put forth my efforts to relieve others, I am simply working for myself. I do not consider that I have made any sacrifice whatever; no man does unless he violates his conscience

They charge me with fanaticism. If to be feelingly alive to the suffering of my fellow creatures is to be a fanatic, I am one of the most incurable fanatics ever permitted to be at large.

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.

Empathy should not be contingent on our proximity to suffering or the likelihood of it happening to us. Rather, it should stem from a disdain that suffering is happening at all.

Pierre was an extraordinary teacher - he really was one of the best, and he raised the boys so, so well: to have a global view, to have compassion, to be humanitarians, to really be concerned about alleviating suffering.

Humanity is best described as inhumanity.

For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And along the way, lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.

Serve humanity, regardless of religion. Show solidarity for those suffering and oppressed.

Sympathy does not think. It acts. It acts to remove. The ceaseless sufferings. Of the world

The ambition of the greatest men of our generation has been to wipe every tear from every eye. That may be beyond us, but so long as there are tears and suffering, so long our work will not be over.

Find a doctor who cares about you, because a big part of health care is caring.

Surly bleeding hearts are better than bleeding bodies.

And so you take criminal caitiffs, murderers, and the like, and hang them on gibbets "for an example to deter others." Whereupon arise friends of humanity, and object. With very great reason, as I consider, if your hypothesis be correct. What right have you to hang any poor creature "for an example"? He can turn round upon you and say, "Why make an 'example' of me, a merely ill-situated, pitiable man? Have you no more respect for misfortune? Misfortune, I have been told, is sacred. And yet you hang me, now I am fallen into your hands; choke the life out of me, for an example! Again I ask, Why make an example of me, for your own convenience alone?

Some will not look on suffering because it creates responsibility.

I believe people are wonderful. The vast majority of people have never hurt anybody in their lives.

We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread.

Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.

It is only our humanity that can deliver us from the brutality of our achievements.