Quotes About Compassion

The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling with adversity; yet there is still a greater, which is the good man who comes to relieve it.

Is it right to shoot the poor prostitute or a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, or a man who loves another man?

We pick our own sorrows out of the joys of other men, and from their sorrows likewise we derive our joys.

You think, "Aw man, I would never want somebody else's poop on my hand," but when it's your child, "Oh, it's not that bad, I'll just wash it off."

One common calamity makes men extremely affect each other, though they differ in every other particular

If survival calls for the bearing of arms, bear them you must. But the most important part of the challenge is for you to find another means that does not come with the killing of your fellow man.

Even bad men love their mommas.

Sometimes kindness can be delivered in a clumsy way. But it's far more sincere in its clumsiness than those distinguished men you read about in books. Your father was very clumsy.

The extent of one man's guilt may be defined by how much of it is experienced by the party he injured.

It's the responsibility of men of religion to... present religion as a way of tolerance, not as a cover for bloodshed.

W'en you see a man in woe, Walk right up and say 'hullo'; Say "hullo" and "how d'ye do. How's the world a-usin' you?

Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.

You despise a man for avarice; but you do not hate him.

The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.

All men, even the most surly are influenced by affection.

As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill; or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles.

Mankind must be positively and constructively wary of mankind, of their fellow man, of their families, of the members of their faith community, of their fellow-citizens.

No man is so great as mankind.

No man can justly censure or condemn another, because indeed no man truly knows another.

Men's hearts ought not to be set against one another, but set with one another and all against evil only.

Nakedness, hunger, distress of all kinds, death itself have been cheerfully suffered, when the heart was right. It is the feeling of injustice that is insupportable to all men.

Infinite is the help man can yield to man.

Fill the seats of justice with good men, not so absolute in goodness as to forget what human frailty is.

Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.