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Quotes About Compassion

Understand your man, meditate on it.
~ Johnny Cash
As He died to make men holy, let us live to make men free.
~ Julia Ward Howe
What man has more than enough and gives it to the world? Only the man of Tao.
~ Laozi
You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
~ Cesare Pavese
The more man knows of man, the better for the common brotherhood among men.
~ Charles Dickens
The Christian in me says it's wrong, but the corrections officer in me says, 'I love to make a grown man piss himself.'
~ Charles Graner
When I think of our condition, my heart is heavy. I see men of my own race treated as outlaws and driven from country to country, or shot down like animals.
~ Chief Joseph
The good man does not grieve that other people do not recognize his merits. His only anxiety is lest he should fail to recognize theirs.
~ Confucius
It's never that hard for me to imagine what it must feel like to be someone else, whether it's an American teenage girl or a Japanese octogenarian man
~ Curtis Sittenfeld
I once felt bad because I had no shoes, and then I met a man who had no feet. He was wearing an ankle bracelet that kept falling off.
~ Dana Gould
I will never tell anyone to pick up a gun. But I will pray for the man who picks up a gun, pray that he will be less cruel than he might otherwise have been.
~ Desmond Tutu
When a man begins to perceive the love of God in all its richness, he begins also to love his neighbor with spiritual perception. This is the love of which all the scriptures speak.
~ Diadochos of Photiki
A successful man cannot realize how hard an unsuccessful man finds life.
~ E. W. Howe
Men have never loved one another much, for reasons we can readily understand: Man is not a lovable animal.
~ Edward Abbey
The people I have no feeling for are professional killers. But I count that man no worse than a governor who won't commute a death sentence because it's unpolitical.
~ F. Lee Bailey
One never dives into the water to save a drowning man more eagerly than when there are others present who dare not take the risk.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
In a man devoted to knowledge, pity seems almost ridiculous, like delicate hands on a cyclops.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
The gentlest man cannot live in peace if it does not please his wicked neighbor.
~ Friedrich Schiller
You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger... Let a man overcome anger by love.
~ Gautama Buddha
If a man does what is good, let him do it again; let him delight in it; happiness is the outcome of good.
~ Gautama Buddha
I think it's pathetic that women and men treat each other worse than we treat our pets. It's love or hate.
~ Gene Simmons
A President is neither prince nor pope, and I don't seek a window on men's souls. In fact, I yearn for a greater tolerance, an easy-goingness about each other's attitudes and way of life.
~ George H. W. Bush
It's better to break a man's leg than his heart.
~ George Woolf
There are men whom one hates until a certain moment when one sees, through a chink in their armour, the writhing of something nailed down and in torment.
~ Gerald Kersh