Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike; each has their suffering. Some suffer too much, others too little. - Buddha
Humans feel deeply the suffering of their friends and allies and easily discount/dismiss the comparable experience of their enemies.
Just as one candle lights another and can light thousands of other candles, so one heart illuminates another heart and can illuminate thousands of other hearts. - Leo Tolstoy
I like animals, all animals. I wouldn't hurt a cat or a dog - or a chicken or a cow. And I wouldn't ask someone else to hurt them for me. That's why I'm a vegetarian. - Peter Dinklage
Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind. - Albert Schweitzer
Everyone must work to live, but the purpose of life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others. Only then have we ourselves become true human beings. - Albert Schweitzer
Seek always to do some good, somewhere... Even if it's a little thing, so something for those that need help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it. - Albert Schweitzer
The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others. - Albert Schweitzer
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