Quotes About Compassion

It did not even occur to David to consult Ruti herself about this, or any other matter. Had he done so, he would have been most surprised by the result. He did not realize it, but his love for his daughter marched hand in hand with a kind of contempt for her. He saw his daughter as a kind-hearteed, dutiful, but vaguely pitiable soul. David, like many people, had made the mistake of confusing "meek" with "weak.

There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference.

Most of us have no real loves and no real hatreds. Blessed is love, less blessed is hatred, but thrice accursed is that indifference which is neither one nor the other.

Tolerance is a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbours of tolerance are apathy and weakness.

The true opposite of love is not hate but indifference. Hate, bad as it is, at least treats the neighbour as a thou, whereas indifference turns the neighbour into an it, a thing. This is why we may say that there is actually one thing worse than evil itself and that is indifference to evil. In human relations the nadir of morality, the lowest point as far as Christian ethics is concerned, is manifest in the phrase, T couldn't care less.'

Brutes leave ingratitude to man.

There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.

That he is mad, 'tis true; 'tis true 'tis pity; And pity 'tis 'tis true.

Conviction without experiences makes for harshness.

The heart has reasons which reason cannot understand.

Guard within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness; know how to replace in your heart, by the happiness of those you love, the happiness that may be wanting to yourself.

To undo a Jew is charity, and not sin.

I am a Jew: Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with die same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is?

It is better that a judge should lean on the side of compassion than severity.

Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.

I always felt from the beginning that you had to defend people you disliked and feared as well as those you admired.

Nobody is poor unless he stand in need of justice.

God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.

A good man showeth favor, and lendeth.

We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression - everywhere in the world. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way everywhere in the world. The third is freedom from want...everywhere in the world. The fourth is freedom from fear... anywhere in the world.

Yes, 'n' how many years can some people exist before they're allowed to be free? Yes. 'n' how many times can a man turn his head pretending he just doesn't see? The answer, my friend is blowin' in the wind.

Send these, the homeless, tempest toss'd, to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door.

We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances - to choose one's own way.