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Eric Hoffer Quotes about Compassion

Nature has no compassion. Nature accepts no excuses and the only punishment it knows is death.

Nature has no compassion. Nature accepts no excuses and the only punishment it knows is death.

Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.

Eric Hoffer, "The Passionate Sate of Mind and Other Aphorisms" (1955), section 140

Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.

Eric Hoffer (1955). “The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms”

Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.

Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul.

Eric Hoffer (1977). “In our time”, McNally & Loftin Publishers