Quotes About Compassion

Nothing is more praiseworthy, nothing more suited to a great and illustrious man than placability and a merciful disposition.

Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men. [Lat., Homines ad deos nulla re propius accedunt, quam salutem hominibus dando.]

Men resemble the gods in nothing so much as in doing good to their fellow creatures.

The ultimate form of love for God and men is forgiveness.

Man is kind enough when he is not excited by religion

We can either walk the highroad of brotherhood or the low road of man's inhumanity to man.

Lynching is the method of vulgar men! He who is deprived of compassion is deprived of everything!

Poverty is a scorpion; it stings the poor and it also stings the men with high conscience who feel sad about the poverty; the rest is immune to it!

All men have one refuge, a good friend, with whom you can weep and know that he does not smile.

The sight of one old man kneeling on all fours in front of me assembling a picnic table was enough to put all thoughts of lunch out of my head, possibly for life.

Nature has, herself, I fear, imprinted in man a kind of instinct to inhumanity.

Therefore, vegetarianism alone can give us the quality of com-passion, which distinguishes man from the rest of the animal world.

Remember that a man, a true man, never hates. His rages and his bad moods never last beyond the present moment-like electric shocks.

I can forgive a man's past faults, his present shortcomings, and his future failures if every minute of every day he loves me like it's his religion.

A man's enemies are those he should endeavor first to make his friends.

To leave the world a little better than you found it. That's the best a man can ever do.

Saints have to be tough as well as tender because saints are like Christ, and Christ was the toughest and the tenderest man who ever lived.

The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy, that he may be able to bear the burden.

It is neither the statesman nor the friend who is asking your help and assistance, but simply the man.

The attainment of a just society is the cherished hope of civilized men.

I trust no rich man who is officiously kind to a poor man.

I would have a man generous to his country, his neighbors, his kindred, his friends, and most of all his poor friends. Not like some who are most lavish with those who are able to give most of them.

The graceful tear that streams for others' Man is the weeping animal born to govern all the rest.

The Son of God became incarnate in the souls of men to instill the feeling of brotherhood. All are brothers and all children of God.