# Quotes about helping others - Quotes: 42 - Authors: 39 - Broader topic: [Quotes about kindness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/kindness.md) - Topic page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/helping-others - JSON version (same data): https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/helping-others.json ## Quotes > One should oblige everyone to the extent of one's ability. One often needs someone smaller than oneself. [Jean de La Fontaine](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-de-la-fontaine.md) · [Fables](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-de-la-fontaine/fables.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-de-la-fontaine/fables/one-should-oblige.md) Topics: [humility](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humility.md), [helping others](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/helping-others.md) > In short, I am doing what I can, I suffer with the same universal suffering, and I try to assuage it, I possess only the puny forces of a man, and I cry to all: "Help me!" [Victor Hugo](https://www.leafyquotes.com/victor-hugo.md) · [Les Miserables](https://www.leafyquotes.com/victor-hugo/les-miserables.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/victor-hugo/les-miserables/in-short-i-am-doing.md) Topics: [suffering](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/suffering.md), [helping others](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/helping-others.md) > [Song Jiang] helped anyone, high or low, who sought his aid. [...] He was always making things easy for people, solving their difficulties, settling differences, saving lives. He provided the indigent with funds for coffins and medicines, gave charity to the poor, assisted in emergencies, helped in cases of hardship. And so he was famed throughout the provinces of Shandong and Hebei, and was known to all as the Timely Rain, for like the rain from the heavens he brought succor to every living thing. [Shī Nàiān](https://www.leafyquotes.com/shi-naian.md) · [The Water Margin](https://www.leafyquotes.com/shi-naian/the-water-margin.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/shi-naian/the-water-margin/song-jiang-helped.md) Topics: [kindness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/kindness.md), [helping others](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/helping-others.md) > Young men of the present day are very fond of running down women, and think it a manly thing to sneer at them for their failings; but God help the man who, in time of trouble, has not a woman to stand by his side with cheering words and loving smiles to help him in the battle of life. [Fergus Hume](https://www.leafyquotes.com/fergus-hume.md) · [The Mystery of a Hansom Cab](https://www.leafyquotes.com/fergus-hume/the-mystery-of-a-hansom-cab.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/fergus-hume/the-mystery-of-a-hansom-cab/young-men-of-the.md) Topics: [women](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/women.md), [helping others](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/helping-others.md) > “My mama say education will give me a voice. I want more than just a voice, Ms. Tia. I want a louding voice,” I say. “I want to enter a room and people will hear me even before I open my mouth to be speaking. I want to live in this life and help many people so that when I grow old and die, I will still be living through the people I am helping.“ [Abi Dare](https://www.leafyquotes.com/abi-dare.md) · [The Girl with the Louding Voice](https://www.leafyquotes.com/abi-dare/the-girl-with-the-louding-voice.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/abi-dare/the-girl-with-the-louding-voice/my-mama-say.md) Topics: [education](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/education.md), [helping others](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/helping-others.md) > It may be hard to just listen without offering advice as people share their problems, but this is often the best support we can give. [Nedra Glover Tawwab](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nedra-glover-tawwab.md) · [Set Boundaries, Find Peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nedra-glover-tawwab/set-boundaries-find-peace.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nedra-glover-tawwab/set-boundaries-find-peace/it-may-be-hard.md) Topics: [helping others](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/helping-others.md), [listening](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/listening.md) > Dedication: This book is dedicated to all the people who get up and do something about it, whatever it is and however small the thing is they do. [Ben Aaronovitch](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-aaronovitch.md) · [Broken Homes](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-aaronovitch/broken-homes.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-aaronovitch/broken-homes/dedication-this-book.md) Topics: [taking action](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/taking-action.md), [helping others](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/helping-others.md) > At its best, mutual aid actually produces new ways of living where people get to create systems of care and generosity that address harm and foster well-being. [Dean Spade](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dean-spade.md) · [Mutual Aid](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dean-spade/mutual-aid.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dean-spade/mutual-aid/at-its-best.md) Topics: [helping others](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/helping-others.md), [cooperation](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/cooperation.md) > there’s not an expiration date on needing help, or needing people. You don’t get to a certain age and it stops. [Hanya Yanagihara](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hanya-yanagihara.md) · [A Little Life](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hanya-yanagihara/a-little-life.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hanya-yanagihara/a-little-life/theres-not-an-expiration.md) Topics: [relationships](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/relationships.md), [helping others](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/helping-others.md) > Help him by helping him resist your help. [Pat Cadigan](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pat-cadigan.md) · [Mindplayers](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pat-cadigan/mindplayers.md) · p. 249 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pat-cadigan/mindplayers/help-him-by-helping.md) Topics: [helping others](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/helping-others.md) > [Y]ou have to save yourself before you can save anyone else. [Philipp Meyer](https://www.leafyquotes.com/philipp-meyer.md) · [American Rust](https://www.leafyquotes.com/philipp-meyer/american-rust.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/philipp-meyer/american-rust/y-ou-have-to-save.md) Topics: [helping others](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/helping-others.md) > It’s all right to need help. All of us have things we can’t do alone. [N. K. Jemisin](https://www.leafyquotes.com/n-k-jemisin.md) · [The Broken Kingdoms](https://www.leafyquotes.com/n-k-jemisin/the-broken-kingdoms.md) · p. 1 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/n-k-jemisin/the-broken-kingdoms/its-all-right.md) Topics: [friendship](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/friendship.md), [helping others](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/helping-others.md) > [Connecting is] a constant process of giving and receiving -- of asking for and receiving help. [Keith Ferrazzi](https://www.leafyquotes.com/keith-ferrazzi.md) · [Never Eat Alone](https://www.leafyquotes.com/keith-ferrazzi/never-eat-alone.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/keith-ferrazzi/never-eat-alone/connecting-is-a-constant.md) Topics: [relationships](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/relationships.md), [helping others](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/helping-others.md) > I never thought of asking anyone to do it for me. Something’s wrong with me. In a time of trouble should people not be able to ask help without feeling demeaned? [John Brunner](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-brunner.md) · [Stand On Zanzibar](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-brunner/stand-on-zanzibar.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-brunner/stand-on-zanzibar/i-never-thought.md) Topics: [helping others](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/helping-others.md), [pride](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/pride-2.md) > "Neither refuse to give help when it is needed," Medwyn continued, "nor refuse to accept it when it is offered." [Lloyd Alexander](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lloyd-alexander.md) · [The Book of Three](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lloyd-alexander/the-book-of-three.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lloyd-alexander/the-book-of-three/neither-refuse-to-give.md) Topics: [helping others](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/helping-others.md) > The belief that men don’t need help is part of the problem. [Warren Farrell](https://www.leafyquotes.com/warren-farrell.md) · [Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say](https://www.leafyquotes.com/warren-farrell/women-cant-hear-what-men-dont-say.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/warren-farrell/women-cant-hear-what-men-dont-say/the-belief-that.md) Topics: [men](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/men.md), [helping others](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/helping-others.md) > Russell Markert, Lela Rogers, Ed Sedgwick - these were but a few of the experienced theater people who generously gave me a boost. I have a theory about the assists we get in life. Only rarely can we repay those people who helped us, but we can pass that help along to others. That's why, in 1958, I reactivated Lela's theater workshop with two dozen talented kids trying to get started in show business. [Lucille Ball](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lucille-ball.md) · [Love, Lucy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lucille-ball/love-lucy.md) · p. 79 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lucille-ball/love-lucy/russell-markert-lela.md) Topics: [gratitude](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/gratitude.md), [helping others](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/helping-others.md) > "Stalin found out about the community and sent his thugs in, just a few days before I got there, to break all of their arms! That was worse than killing them! It was a horrible sight, Oskar: their arms in crude splints, straight in front of them like zombies! They couldn't feed themselves, because they couldn't get their hands to their mouths! So you know what they did!" "They starved?" "They fed each other! That's the difference between heaven and hell! In hell we starve! In heaven we feed each other!" I don't believe in the afterlife." "Neither do I, but I believe in the story." [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jonathan-safran-foer.md) · [Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jonathan-safran-foer/extremely-loud-and-incredibly-close.md) · p. 142 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jonathan-safran-foer/extremely-loud-and-incredibly-close/stalin-found-out.md) Topics: [hell](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/hell.md), [helping others](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/helping-others.md), [paradise](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/paradise.md) > Seems to me the place you fight cruelty is where you find it, and the place you give help is where you see it needed. [Philip Pullman](https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-pullman.md) · [The Subtle Knife: His Dark Materials 2](https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-pullman/the-subtle-knife-his-dark-materials-2.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-pullman/the-subtle-knife-his-dark-materials-2/seems-to-me-the.md) Topics: [cruelty](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/cruelty.md), [helping others](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/helping-others.md) > It is impossible to do anything for anyone. [Simone de Beauvoir](https://www.leafyquotes.com/simone-de-beauvoir.md) · [All Men Are Mortal](https://www.leafyquotes.com/simone-de-beauvoir/all-men-are-mortal.md) · p. 317 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/simone-de-beauvoir/all-men-are-mortal/it-is-impossible.md) Topics: [helping others](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/helping-others.md) > In a way, misery loves company. In another way, if everyone’s in trouble, nobody can help anybody else get out of it. [Harry Turtledove](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove.md) · [American Empire: Blood and Iron](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/american-empire-blood-and-iron.md) · p. 232 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/american-empire-blood-and-iron/in-a-way.md) Topics: [suffering](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/suffering.md), [helping others](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/helping-others.md) > 'No one is useless in this world,' retorted the Secretary, 'who lightens the burden of it for any one else.' [Charles Dickens](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens.md) · [Our Mutual Friend](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens/our-mutual-friend.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens/our-mutual-friend/no-one-is-useless.md) Topics: [kindness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/kindness.md), [helping others](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/helping-others.md) > “We Enforcers have a saying: ‘the right help helps, and enough help helps, but help that’s in time helps most.’” [Sheri S. Tepper](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper.md) · [Sideshow](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper/sideshow.md) · p. 399 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper/sideshow/we-enforcers-have.md) Topics: [helping others](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/helping-others.md) > There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use. [Freeman Dyson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/freeman-dyson.md) · [Disturbing The Universe](https://www.leafyquotes.com/freeman-dyson/disturbing-the-universe.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/freeman-dyson/disturbing-the-universe/there-is-a-great.md) Topics: [work](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/work.md), [helping others](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/helping-others.md) > "We are here to help each other get through this thing, whatever it is." [Kurt Vonnegut](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut.md) · [Timequake](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/timequake.md) · p. 78 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/timequake/we-are-here.md) Topics: [empathy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/empathy.md), [helping others](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/helping-others.md) > What Alvin figured out was that when you're Making, you don't use people like tools. You don't wear them out to achieve your purpose. You wear yourself out helping them achieve theirs. You wear yourself out teaching and guiding, persuading and listening to advice and letting folks persuade you, when it happens they're right. [Orson Scott Card](https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card.md) · [Alvin Journeyman](https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/alvin-journeyman.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/alvin-journeyman/what-alvin-figured.md) Topics: [leadership](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/leadership.md), [helping others](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/helping-others.md) > We've got to help each other, seeing as God doesn't help us. Do you see how great Jesus' idea was? Imagine how much it must have irritated God. Forget the devil, Jesus was the only true enemy of God, and he's the only friend us poor wretches have. [Umberto Eco](https://www.leafyquotes.com/umberto-eco.md) · [The Mysterious Flame Of Queen Loana](https://www.leafyquotes.com/umberto-eco/the-mysterious-flame-of-queen-loana.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/umberto-eco/the-mysterious-flame-of-queen-loana/weve-got-to-help.md) Topics: [god](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/god.md), [helping others](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/helping-others.md) > Yesterday, I helped a blind man across the street and was surprised that I did not feel revolted when I took his arm. [Joseph Heller](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-heller.md) · [SOMETHING HAPPENED](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-heller/something-happened.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-heller/something-happened/yesterday-i-helped.md) Topics: [helping others](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/helping-others.md) > Helping people was one of the two basic things Fat had been told to give up; helping people and taking dope. He had stopped taking dope, but all his energy and enthusiasm were now totally channelled into saving people. Better he had kept on with the dope. [Philip K. Dick](https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-k-dick.md) · [Valis](https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-k-dick/valis.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-k-dick/valis/helping-people-was.md) Topics: [humor](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor.md), [helping others](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/helping-others.md), [drugs](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/drugs.md) > To save one from a mistake is a gift of paradise. [Frank Herbert](https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert.md) · [Dune](https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/dune.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/dune/to-save-one.md) Topics: [mistakes](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/mistakes.md), [helping others](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/helping-others.md) > My dear, I used to think I was serving humanity... and I pleasured in the thought. Then I discovered that humanity does not want to be served; on the contrary it resents any attempt to serve it. [Robert A. Heinlein](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-a-heinlein.md) · [Stranger in a Strange Land](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-a-heinlein/stranger-in-a-strange-land.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-a-heinlein/stranger-in-a-strange-land/my-dear-i-used.md) Topics: [human nature](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/human-nature.md), [helping others](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/helping-others.md) > “It's a mutual, joint-stock world, in all meridians. We cannibals must help these Christians.” [Herman Melville](https://www.leafyquotes.com/herman-melville.md) · [Moby-Dick](https://www.leafyquotes.com/herman-melville/moby-dick.md) · p. 68 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/herman-melville/moby-dick/its-a-mutual.md) Topics: [humor](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor.md), [helping others](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/helping-others.md) > "Heaven helps those who help themselves" is a well-tried maxim, embodying in a small compass the results of vast human experience. The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual; and, exhibited in the lives of many, it constitutes the true source of national vigour and strength. Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates. Whatever is done for men or classes, to a certain extent takes away the stimulus and necessity of doing for themselves; and where men are subjected to over-guidance and over-government, the inevitable tendency is to render them comparatively helpless. [Samuel Smiles](https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-smiles.md) · [Self-Help: With Illustrations of Conduct and Perseverance](https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-smiles/self-help-with-illustrations-of-conduct-and-perseverance.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-smiles/self-help-with-illustrations-of-conduct-and-perseverance/heaven-helps-those.md) Topics: [independence](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/independence.md), [helping others](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/helping-others.md) > I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred. I learned that assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong; and that oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak. [Booker Washington](https://www.leafyquotes.com/booker-washington.md) · [Up From Slavery](https://www.leafyquotes.com/booker-washington/up-from-slavery.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/booker-washington/up-from-slavery/i-learned-the.md) Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md), [hatred](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/hatred.md), [helping others](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/helping-others.md) > Be useful where thou livest. [George Herbert](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-herbert.md) · [The Temple](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-herbert/the-temple.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-herbert/the-temple/be-useful-where.md) Topics: [helping others](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/helping-others.md) > How oft do they their silver bowers leave > > To come to succour us that succour want! [Edmund Spenser](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edmund-spenser.md) · [The Faerie Queene](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edmund-spenser/the-faerie-queene.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edmund-spenser/the-faerie-queene/how-oft-do-they.md) Topics: [helping others](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/helping-others.md) > What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other? I cannot be indifferent to the troubles of a man who advised me in my trouble, and attended me in my illness. [George Eliot](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-eliot.md) · [Middlemarch](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-eliot/middlemarch.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-eliot/middlemarch/what-do-we-live.md) Topics: [meaning of life](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/meaning-of-life.md), [helping others](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/helping-others.md) > There are so many of us, and our lots are so different, what wonder that Nature's mood is often in harsh contrast with the great crisis of our lives? We are children of a large family, and must learn, as such children do, not to expect that our hurts will be made much of — to be content with little nurture and caressing, and help each other the more. [George Eliot](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-eliot.md) · [Adam Bede](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-eliot/adam-bede.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-eliot/adam-bede/there-are-so-many.md) Topics: [suffering](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/suffering.md), [helping others](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/helping-others.md) > To know what people may find pleasant or unpleasant is not only necessary to any one who requires their help, it is still more necessary to any one who would help them; you must please them if you would do them service; and the art of writing is no idle pursuit if it is used to make men hear the truth. [Jean Jacques Rousseau](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau.md) · [Emile; or On Education](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau/emile-or-on-education.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau/emile-or-on-education/to-know-what.md) Topics: [truth](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/truth.md), [writing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/writing.md), [helping others](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/helping-others.md) > Mothers and nurses grow fond of children because of the care they lavish on them; the practice of social virtues touches the very heart with the love of humanity; by doing good we become good; and I know no surer way to this end. Keep your pupil busy with the good deeds that are within his power, let the cause of the poor be his own, let him help them not merely with his money, but with his service; let him work for them, protect them, let his person and his time be at their disposal; let him be their agent; he will never all his life long have a more honourable office. How many of the oppressed, who have never got a hearing, will obtain justice when he demands it for them with that courage and firmness which the practice of virtue inspires; when he makes his way into the presence of the rich and great, when he goes, if need be, to the footstool of the king himself, to plead the cause of the wretched, the cause of those who find all doors closed to them by their poverty, those who are so afraid of being punished for their misfortunes that they do not dare to complain? > > But shall we make of Emile a knight-errant, a redresser of wrongs, a paladin? Shall he thrust himself into public life, play the sage and the defender of the laws before the great, before the magistrates, before the king? Shall he lay petitions before the judges and plead in the law courts? That I cannot say. The nature of things is not changed by terms of mockery and scorn. He will do all that he knows to be useful and good. He will do nothing more, and he knows that nothing is useful and good for him which is unbefitting his age. He knows that his first duty is to himself; that young men should distrust themselves; that they should act circumspectly; that they should show respect to those older than themselves, reticence and discretion in talking without cause, modesty in things indifferent, but courage in well doing, and boldness to speak the truth. Such were those illustrious Romans who, having been admitted into public life, spent their days in bringing criminals to justice and in protecting the innocent, without any motives beyond those of learning, and of the furtherance of justice and of the protection of right conduct. [Jean Jacques Rousseau](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau.md) · [Emile; or On Education](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau/emile-or-on-education.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau/emile-or-on-education/mothers-and-nurses.md) Topics: [justice](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/justice.md), [kindness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/kindness.md), [helping others](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/helping-others.md) > For his own part, should he need help, he will ask it readily of the first person he meets. He will ask it of a king as readily as of his servant; all men are equals in his eyes. From his way of asking you will see he knows you owe him nothing, that he is asking a favour. He knows too that humanity moves you to grant this favour; his words are few and simple. His voice, his look, his gesture are those of a being equally familiar with compliance and refusal. It is neither the crawling, servile submission of the slave, nor the imperious tone of the master, it is a modest confidence in mankind; it is the noble and touching gentleness of a creature, free, yet sensitive and feeble, who asks aid of a being, free, but strong and kindly. [Jean Jacques Rousseau](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau.md) · [Emile; or On Education](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau/emile-or-on-education.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau/emile-or-on-education/for-his-own.md) Topics: [equality](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/equality.md), [dignity](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/dignity.md), [helping others](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/helping-others.md) > The peasant must always be helped technically, economically, morally, and culturally. The guerrilla fighter will be a sort of guiding angel who has fallen into the zone, helping the poor always. [Ernesto Che Guevara](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ernesto-che-guevara.md) · [Guerrilla Warfare](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ernesto-che-guevara/guerrilla-warfare.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ernesto-che-guevara/guerrilla-warfare/the-peasant-must.md) Topics: [helping others](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/helping-others.md)