Quotes About Compassion

Standing, as I do, in view of God and eternity, I realise that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone (On the eve of her execution)

I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity.

I think patriotism is like charity -- it begins at home.

Our country is the world-our countrymen are all mankind.

He is a poor patriot whose patriotism does not enable him to understand how all men everywhere feel about their altars and their hearthstones, their flag and their fatherland.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

We know that no one should tell a woman she has to bear an unwanted child. We know that religious beliefs cannot define patriotism.

True patriotism is not worship of our nation but rather, in the light of our worship of the God of justice, to conform our nation's ways of justice.

My patriotism is not an exclusive thing. It is all-embracing and I should reject that patriotism which sought to mount the distress or exploitation of other nationalities.

Those who believe patriotism to be the last refuge of the scoundrel have underestimated compassion.

Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?

I don't think the United States needs superpatriots. We need patriotism, honestly practiced by all of us, and we don't need these people that are more patriotic than you or anyone else.

In the wake of Katrina, what you're witnessing and what we are very careful to depict is a form of patriotism.

My affections were first for my own country, then, generally, for all mankind

By patriotism I mean the welfare of the whole people, if I secure it at the hands of my opponent, I should bow down my head to him.

On the contrary, I'm a universal patriot, if you could understand me rightly: my country is the world.

1 realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred toward any one.

Me, personally. I do not know a soul who perished that day of 9/11. But it did then, does now, and I imagine it always will bring out the Patriot in me.

Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.

Peace is what every human being is craving for, and it can be brought about by humanity through the child.

Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.

The greatest comforts and lasting peace are obtained, when one eradicates selfishness from within.

It is so easy to break down and destroy. The heroes are those who make peace and build.

Learning to stand in somebody else's shoes, to see through their eyes, that's how peace begins. And it's up to you to make that happen. Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.