Quotes About Compassion

As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.

All men have their frailties; and whoever looks for a friend without imperfections, will never find what he seeks.

Not every man with a heart is understanding, nor every man with an ear a listener, and nor every man with eyes able to see.

I once cried because I had no shoes to play soccer, but one day, I met a man who had no feet.

And then many things became very clear... we learned perfectly that the life of a single human being is worth millions of times more than all the property of the richest man on earth.

I have learned that a man has the right and obligation to look down at another man, only when that man needs help to get up from the ground.

God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.

Every man is our brother, and every man's burden is our own. Where poverty exists, all are poorer. Where hate flourishes, all are corrupted. Where injustice reins, all are unequal.

I'm not a spiteful man, never been. I always forgive. The final decision isn't mine, but God's. God knows what He does.

The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.

I exhort you, press on in your course, and exhort all men that they may be saved.

Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don't sum up a man's life in one moment.

By whomsoever no evil is done in deed, or word, or thought, him I call a Brahmin (holy man) who is guarded in these three.

Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men's souls, and a beautiful image it is.

The man of Love follows the path of God-and shows affection to both the believer and the nonbe-liever.

The murder of a man is still murder, even in wartime.

Only by being a man or woman for others does one become fully human.

I can think of no other edifice constructed by man as altruistic as a lighthouse. They were built only to serve.

A man, who can, in cold blood, hunt and torture a poor, innocent animal, cannot feel much compassion for the distress of his own species.

I know nothing of man's rights, or woman's rights; human rights are all that I recognize.

The empathic understanding of the experience of other human beings is as basic an endowment of man as his vision, hearing, touch, taste and smell

A good man complains of no one; he does not look to faults.

I was complaining that I had no shoes till I met a man who had no feet.

I'm for the poor man - all poor men, black and white, they all gotta have a chance. They gotta have a home, a job, and a decent education for their children. 'Every man a king' - that's my slogan.