Quotes About Compassion

I'm a sucker for a man who cries. It just gets to me.

A man's own heart must ever be given to gain that of another.

Be good and honest to your fellow man and try to do something good for somebody.

A feminist man is a bit like a vegetarian: it's the humanitarian principle he's defending, I suppose.

A man who loves himself takes the first step towards real love.

To me a man of meditation is bound to be immensely loving.

The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy. It is as real a loss that others should be low, as that we should be low; for we musthave a society.

The silver ore of pure charity is an expensive article in the catalogue of a man's good qualities.

The basis of action on love, the brotherhood of all men, the value of the individual... the humility of the spirit.

The way a man looks at himself in a mirror will tell you if he can ever care about anyone else.

Terribly sad news about Stuart Cable, such a lovely, warm, funny, talented man.

I have never felt at any point in my life, good or bad, any ill will ever from the man or woman on the street.

I pitied myself for having no door until I met a man with no dividers.

Is it possible that the environmental severity of the 1930s induced-particularly in the most aware, alert, and compassionate of [British] men-a morality which makes no sense today?

Someday a computer will give a wrong answer to spare someone's feelings, and man will have invented artificial intelligence.

If there be gods we cannot help them, but we can assist our fellow men. We cannot love the inconceivable, but we can love wife and child and friend.

No God can put a man in hell in another world, who has made a little heaven in this. God cannot make a man miserable if that man has made somebody else happy.

God does not treat us as our sins deserve, man treats us as our sins deserve.

The number of those men who know how to use wholly irresponsible power humanely and generously is small. Everybody knows this, and the slave knows it best of all.

The more kindness shown to an envious man, the worse he becomes.

If man was what he ought to be, he would be adored by the animals.

He is a Patron who looks down, / With careless eyes on men who drown; / But if they chance to reach the land, / Encumbers them with helping hand

If I have unjustly wrested a plank from a drowning man, I must restore it to him though I drown myself.

A man came up to me the other day and said he hadn't had a bite in weeks. So you know what I did? I walked by him like he didn't even exist.