Quotes About Compassion

Am I not a man and brother?

I'd like to be remembered for being a good, kind, loving, gentle man who attempted to live wisely, and who cared a lot.

The recognition of the sanctity of the life of every man is the first and only basis of all morality.

I have now understood that though it seems to men that they live by care for themselves, in truth it is love alone by which they live. He who has love, is in God, and God is in him, for God is love.

Why is there this criminal indifference to the lostness of men? Our condemnation is that we know how to live better than we are living.

There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people.

It is unavoidable that if we learn more about a great man's life, we shall also hear of occasions on which he has done no better than we, and has in fact come nearer to us as a human being.

The only way to make a man worthy of love is by loving him.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.

I love my fellow creatures - I do all the good I can - yet everybody says I'm such a disagreeable man!

We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain.

If you don't know how to serve men, why worry about serving the gods?

Grieve not that men do not know you; grieve that you do not know men.

The practice of charity will bind us...will bind all men in one great brotherhood.

No man can feel the iron which enters another man's soul.

If a man can control his body and mind and thereby refrains from eating animal flesh and wearing animal products, I say he will really be liberated.

It is impossible for a man who is bogged to extricate another who is bogged.

The opposite of an idealist is too often a man without love.

Rule: Start by looking for what is valid in every man.

All the kindness which a man puts out into the world works on the heart and thoughts of mankind.

Every life is meant to help all lives; each man should live for all men's betterment.

Any abuse of animals is the same as abuse of men, women, or children.

In [my] life ... I did not understand steam machinery, but I tried to understand that much more complicated piece of mechanism - man.

The happy man only feels at ease because the unhappy bear their burden in silence. Without this silence, happiness would be impossible.