Quotes About Compassion

But Mrs. Wingfold had developed a great aptitude for liking people. Surely more people would allow themselves to be thus changed if they realized how greatly the coming of the kingdom of God is slowed by a simple lack of courtesy.

We are all very anxious to be understood, and it is very hard not to be. But there is one thing much more necessary. To understand other people.

But the man of independent feeling, except he be thus your friend, will not unlikely resent your compassion, while the beggar will accept it chiefly as a pledge for something more to be got from you; and so it will tend to keep him in beggary.

It is by loving and not by being loved, that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

It is curious how people take it for granted that they have a right to preach at you and pray over you as soon as your income falls below a certain level.

Weak or strong, clever or simple, we are all brothers.

Never, for any reason on earth, could you wish for an increase in pain. Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop.

I have no wish to take life, not even human life

And remember also that in fighting against man we must not come to resemble him. Even when you have conquered him, do not adopt his vices.

Either we all live in a decent world, or nobody does.

Never, for any reason on earth, could you wish for an increase of pain. Of pain you could only wish for one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes, no heroes, he thought over and over as he writhed on the floor, clutching uselessly at his disabled left arm.

One question at any rate was answered. Never, for any reason on earth, could you wish for an increase of pain. Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes, no heroes, he thought over and over as he writhed on the floor, clutching uselessly at his disabled left arm.

A humanitarian is always a hypocrite

The great mass of human beings are not acutely selfish. After the age of about thirty they abandon individual ambition—in many cases, indeed, they almost abandon the sense of being individuals at all—and live chiefly for others, or are simply smothered under drudgery.

Možda ?ovjeku nije toliko do toga da bude voljen,koliko da bude shva?en.

It is impossible to found a civilisation on fear and hatred and cruelty. It would never endure.

even the best wall in the world deserves to be pulled down if it surrounds a concentration camp.

Curiously enough the whole experience has left me with not less but more belief in the decency of human beings.

Quand on aimait, on aimait, et quand on n'avait rien d'autre à donner, on donnait son amour.

Lo importante no es mantenerse vivo, sino mantenerse humano

Dickens hardly writes of war, even to denounce it.

Quan tr?ng là quan h? gi?a các cá nhân vá»›i nhau và má»™t cá»­ ch? hoàn toàn b?t lá»±c, má»™t cái n?m tay, má»™t gi?t nÆ°á»›c m?t, má»™t l?i Ä'á»™ng viên vá»›i ng??i h?p h?i ??u là Ä'áng quí, tá»± thân chúng Ä'ã là giá tr?.

in spite of the men who gripped him by each shoulder, the prisoner stepped slightly aside to avoid a puddle on the path on the way to the gallows. It is curious, but till that moment I had never realized what it means to destroy a healthy, conscious man. When I saw the prisoner step aside to avoid the puddle, I saw the mystery, the unspeakable wrongness, of cutting a life short when it is in full tide. This man was not dying, he was alive just as we were alive.