Quotes About Compassion

It is absurd to suppose, if this is God's world, that men must always be selfish barbarians.

Trample not on the ruins of a man.

Man, while he loves, is never quite depraved.

The English writer, Charles Lamb, said one day: "I hate that man." "But you don't know him." "Of course, I don't," said Lamb. "Do you think I could possibly hate a man I know?"

To become a man was something, but to become a man of sorrows was far more; to bleed, and die, and suffer.

To a hungry man, Christ is very lovely when He has a loaf of bread in His hand.

I want every man on the force to try his best, his level best, to try to avoid arresting anyone. I know that this going to take great will power but try.

The real knife to a man's heart was his woman's tears.

In our plain defects we already know the brotherhood of man.

Love is not ful of pittie (as men say) But deaffe and cruell, where he meanes to pray.

They are so busy, Julia, trying to help the world that they've forgotten how to help themselves. They've forgotten how to be happy, and it is a happy man or woman who helps the world most.

My business is staunching blood, and feeding fainting men.

A wise man sees the path all must walk and embraces the free will of humankind, even if to watch it unfold causes him pain.

Compassion--that's the one thing no machine ever had. Maybe it's the one thing that keeps man ahead of them.

Shall I tell you what you have that other men don't?.... It's the courage of your own tenderness.

Every country my country, and every man my brother.

What are the sorrows of other men to us, and what their joy?

Man, who thinks he knows everything. But what does man know...Man cares only for himself, in his fear and hate.

Yes,' growled Fell, 'for animals do not know what they do, but man has knowledge of his cruelty.

Never be glad that another man has died. Not ever. [...] It never ends. Never... ever... be glad to kill.

But man must light for man The fires no other can, And find in his own eye Where the strange crossroads lie.

People, man, they love hurting people. It's not even fair.

I believe in the rights of creatures other than man.

The man who forgives pays a tremendous price - the price of the evil he forgives.