Quotes About Compassion

Give me a well-cooked, well-served meal, a bouquet, and a sunset, and I can do more for a man's soul than all the cant ever preached. I can even do it without a sunset!

It is depressing to hear the unfortunate or dying man jest.

The measure of man's humanity is the extent and intensity of his love for mankind.

Nobody has ever given a reason why men should be their brother's keepers.

Wise men appreciate all men, for they see the good in each and know how hard it is to make anything good.

New Rule: Someone has to tell Francesco Schettino that embracing a callous policy of "every man for himself" doesn't make you a sea captain. It makes you the Republican nominee.

What important is man should live in righteousness, in natural love for mankind.

Nothing in Man is either worse or better for being shared with the beasts.

More lightly do his sorrows press upon a man, when to a friend or fellow traveller he tells his griefs.

... Kindness, sweetest of the small notes in the world's ache, most modest & gentle of the elements entered man before history and became his daily connection, let no man tell you otherwise.

There is only one man in the world and his name is All Men. There is only one woman in the world and her name is All Women. There is only one child in the world and the child's name is All Children.

I wonder why it is the man who pleads for mercy never gives it.

If a man voluntarily allows himself to be crushed, he yields the oil of moral energy which sustains the world.

When men are inhuman, take care not to feel towards them as they do towards other humans.

One of my theories is that the hearts of men are about alike, no matter what their skin color.

Peaceful and kind one monk is more valuable than violent and rude ten thousand men!

In zoos, along with the animals, the humanity of man is also prisoned! No cage is humane!

The first step to be a good man is this: You must deeply feel the burden of the stones someone else carrying.

Watching snowing would be much greater if there were no homeless people! Man can never be fully happy and comfortable till all men become happy and comfortable!

I could believe only in the hell I was living in, a hell on earth, and it was man-made, not God-made.

Why do there have to be men like that, men who enjoy another man's dying?

Perchance that I might learn what pity is, That I might laugh at erring men no more.

Other men's pains are easily borne.

What you do to these men on California's Death Row, you do to God.