Quotes About Compassion

A woman who is not quite a fool will forgive your being but a man, if you are surely that. . .

In the world as I have seen it, no man grows rich by kindness.

The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. Look her in the eyes before you kill her. See her tears, hear her last words. You owe her that much at least." - Eddard Stark

Every man who will not have softening of the heart must at last have softening of the brain

I never wanted to be a man. I feel sorry for them.

It is harsh enough for each man to bear his own wound. But he who leads bears the wounds of all who follow him.

To enter into the hearts of men belongs to him who can explore the human heart.

For the wise old man was universally beloved, and ministered so beautifully to his flock that many of them thanked him all their lives for the help given to both hearts and souls.

I can get on with wild beasts first-rate; but men rile me awfully.

Learn to overrule minor interest in favor of great ones, and generously to do all the good the heart prompts; a man is never injured by acting virtuously.

Man puts manacles on his fellow-man; God never.

You never want to give a man a present when he's feeling good. You want to do it when he's down.

My idea of the perfect man would be someone intelligent and clever enough, but also kind and compassionate enough to stand up to me - to stand up to me with compassion.

Recall the face of the poorest and weakest man you have seen, and ask yourself if this step you contemplate is going to be any use to him.

Non-violence does not signify that man must not fight against the enemy, and by enemy is meant the evil which men do, not the human beings themselves.

Every man has an equal right to the necessaries of life even as birds and beasts have.

A man who behaves like a beast is worse than the beast.

I must refuse to believe that the Germans contemplate with equanimity the evacuation of cities like London for fear of destruction to be wrought by man's inhuman ingenuity.

The nonviolent man automatically becomes a servant of God.

The man of prayer will be at peace with himself and with the whole world.

No man could look upon another as his enemy, unless he first became his own enemy.

A selfish basis would not serve the purpose of taking a man higher and higher along the paths of evolution.

Mankind has to get out of violence only through non-violence.

Man, through the cow, is enjoined to realize his identity with all that lives.