Quotes About Compassion

There is nothing so revered yet so reviled as war; for even as it brings out the worst in men, it also brings out the best in them.

Man is vile, I know, but people are wonderful.

The concept of individual with a conscience is one whose highest allegiance is to his fellow man.

Never see the face of man till you have seen his face who is our life, our all.

Man can see his reflection in water only when he bends down close to it, and the heart of man, too, must lean down to the heart of his fellow; then it will see itself within his heart.

When a man spends his relief checks on green whiskey his children have a way of crying from hunger pains.

None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.

But the question is, whether the animals who endure such sufferings of various kinds for the service and entertainment of man, would accept existence upon the terms on which they have it.

One man can make another's life so much better.

You can't stamp on a man's corns when he's got his feet cut off.

A man is really alive only when he delights in the good-will of others.

Every man carries a wound. I have never met a man without one. No matter how good your life may have seemed to you, you live in a broken world full of broken people.

That was the tragedy. Not that one man had the courage to be evil. But that millions had not the courage to be good.

A man may be ungrateful, but the human race is not so.

I love that man better who swears a stream as long as my arm yet deals justice to his neighbors and mercifully deals his substance to the poor, than the long, smooth faced hypocrite.

The love of our neighbor hath its bounds in each man's love of himself.

The cheapest of all things is kindness, its exercise requiring the least possible trouble and self-sacrifice. Win hearts, said Burleigh to Queen Elizabeth, and you have all men's hearts and purses.

Guide dogs for the blind. It's cruel really, isn't it? Getting a dog to lead a man round all day. Not fair on either of them.

Two things control man's character; Strength and Pity

Service to man is service to god

As long as there are human beings, there will be the idea of brotherhood -- and an almost total inability to practice it.

Man should be judged by the deeds done to help his fellow man.

The enemy isn't men, or women, it's bloody stupid people and no-one has the right to be stupid.

Successful avengers, who are good men at heart, will always be saddened.