Quotes About Compassion

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

Nobody is better than you and remember, you are better than nobody. Thomas Jefferson

the measure of society is how it treats the weakest members

May I never get too busy in my own affairs that I fail to respond to the needs of others with kindness and compassion.

shall we refuse to the unhappy fugitives from distress that hospitality which the savages of the wilderness extended to our fathers arriving in this land? Shall oppressed humanity find no asylum on this globe?

If you serve humanity, you serve humanity's God.

War is as much a punishment to the punisher as it is to the sufferer.

Era un vers din Talmud: "Cel care salveaz? o singur? via??, salveaz? întreaga lume.

he who saves the life of one man saves the entire world.

We do not forget the sorrows of Egypt, we do not forget Haman, we do not forget Hitler. Thus, among the unjust, we do not forget the just. Remember Oskar Schindler.

quien salva la vida de un hombre, salva al mundo entero.

In a fallen world, it was hard to do unambiguous good.

When you get older you realize that most everybody's got different versions of the same problem. The trap is thinking that it's all about you.

Then he looked by him, and was ware of a damsel that came riding as fast as her horse might gallop upon a fair palfrey. And when she espied that Sir Lanceor was slain, then she made sorrow out of measure, and said, O Balin ! two bodies hast thou slain and one heart, and two hearts in one body, and two souls thou hast lost.

Only death dignifies our sufferings in the eyes of others.

But Hans Castorp said as they walked on: "You see, I didn't mind it at all, I got on with her quite well; I always do with such people; I understand instinctively how to go at them—don't you think so? I even think, on the whole, I get on better with sad people than with jolly ones—goodness knows why. Perhaps it's because I'm an orphan, and lost my parents early;

For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.

The power of the word, with which the cast away is cast away, pronounces the turning away from all moral uncertainty, from every sympathy with the abyss, the reneging of that phrase of compassion, that "to understand all is to forgive all", and what was beginning here was that "wonder of the reborn impartiality", which was briefly mentioned in one of the author's dialogues with not a little mystery. What strange coherence!

Mais qu'était-ce que l'humanisme ? C'était l'amour des hommes, ce n'était pas autre chose, et par là même l'humanisme était aussi une politique, une attitude de révolte contre tout ce qui souille et déshonore l'idée de l'homme.

I opanowa? go rodzaj rozczulenia, prosta, a nabo?na sympatia do w?asnego serca, do bij?cego ludzkiego serca...

Ng??i ch? yêu quý và tôn th? ng??i khác ch?ng nào h? còn chÆ°a có kh? n?ng phán xét v? nhau, và khao khát tÆ°Æ¡ng tÆ° là k?t qu? c?a sá»± hi?u bi?t không ??y ??.

Pero ¿qué era el humanismo? El amor a la humanidad, nada más, y por eso mismo el humanismo también era política, también era rebelión contra todo cuanto mancillara y deshonrara la idea de humanidad.

For the sake of goodness and love, man shall grant death no dominion over his thoughts.

Numai moartea îi putea îndupleca pe alÈ›ii s? se închine în faÈ›a suferinÈ›elor noastre, numai prin ea suferinÈ›ele cele mai meschine devin demne de respect.