Quotes About Compassion

Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.

In every pang that rends the heart The Man of Sorrows had a part.

It is not by driving away our brother that we can be alone with God.

Civilization is just a slow process of learning to be kind.

We should not permit tolerance to degenerate into indifference.

Look for a sweet person. Forget rich.

One of the silliest lines ever said in a feature film came from Love Story, the 1970s hit, which immortalized the phrase, "Love means never having to say you're sorry." There are few people who would actually want to share a life with someone who held that concept near and dear.

We are so fond of each other because our ailments are the same.

Of all the paths [that] lead to a woman's love Pity's the straightest.

I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness; glad of other men's good, content with my harm.

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward, and we want to sit in their radius. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.

The bravest are the tenderest. The loving are the daring.

It is fairly obvious that those who are in favour of the death penalty have more affinity with assassins than those who are not.

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

Don't judge any man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins.

He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

In judging others, folks will work overtime for no pay.

It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures' lives.

Human life consists in mutual service. No grief, pain, misfortune, or 'broken heart' is excuse for cutting off one's life while any power of service remains. But when all usefulness is over, when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death, it is the simplest of human rights to choose a quick and easy death in place of a slow and horrible one.

No emergency excuses you from exercising tolerance.

Being human, we should bear all we can.

Who loves me will love my dog also.

Oh, the saddest of sights in a world of sin Is a little lost pup with his tail tucked in!

The more one comes to know men, the more one comes to admire the dog.