Quotes About Compassion

The man who wishes to bend me with his tale of woe must shed true tears - not tears that have been got ready overnight.

One can't love man without hating most of the creatures who pretend to bear his name.

The best cure for a hangover is something one straight man can't do for another straight man.

He that steals the old man's supper does him no wrong.

If a man will be righteous and equal, let him see, with his neighbour's eyes, in his own case; and with his own eyes, in his neighbour's case.

Mankind's suffering belongs to all men.

You could not pity anything if you weren't a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention.

I'm a people's man - only the people matter.

I can't explain 9/11, except the evil of man.

All men are mad in some way or the other, and inasmuch as you deal discreetly with your madmen, so deal with God's madmen too, the rest of the world.

What I'm finding out now is that people care more about a flag than about their fellow man. That's killing me.

As we form our individual opinions of our fellow man, let us base them on our similarities and not our differences.

And may God be merciful, because these twisted men will not.

I want to be optimistic because I don't think man is intrinsically violent.

It's mind-altering when you slip into someone else's shoes. That's psychedelic, man.

Inside all people there is love, also the need to take care of the other man who is his brother. Inside everyone is a savage, but there is also happening tenderness and compassion.

You would not call a man humane for ceasing to set mousetraps if he did so because he believed there were no mice in the house.

I used to say I wanted somebody funny and intelligent, but kindness is the most important quality in a man.

[Albert Camus] is The First Man because he is poor, which has never been much to human beings.

We are certain God's will is that all men share in the good things this earth produces.

There is no finer revenge than that which others inflict on your enemy. Moreover, it has the advantage of leaving you the role of a generous man.

In great cities men are more callous both to the happiness and the misery of others, than in the country; for they are constantly in the habit of seeing both extremes.

Christmas is a poor excuse every 25th of December to pick a man's pockets.

Couldn't we even argue that it is because men are unequal that they have that much more need to be brothers?