Quotes About Compassion

Conquer the angry man by love.

Only friendliness produces friendship. And we must look far deeper into the soul of man for the thing that produces friendliness.

I think that a man should be caring.

No man could be actively nonviolent and not rise against social injustice, no matter where it occurred.

The greatest good [a man] can do is to cultivate himself in order that he may be of greater use to humanity.

Which not peace for the man who is forced to go to war, for he will find his peace. But wish peace for the man who goes to war willingly, for he will never find his peace.

A man who has no consideration for the needs of his men ought never to be given command.

If fifty thousand men were to die for the good of the State, I certainly would weep for them, but political necessity comes before everything else.

A man who takes away another man's freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow mindedness.

I don't hold it against the men who beat me because undoubtedly there are some ruffians of every nationality and the English are not exceptions.

I will hate the man you choose because he is not me, and love him if he makes you smile. No woman deserves the sure knowledge of widow's black as her brideprice, you least of all.

Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.

Tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.

There are more things to admire in men than to despise.

So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.

I met a young man who was wounded in love, I met another man who was wounded in hatred.

I found the right man, got married, and just had to keep not reinventing myself, just deciding that it doesn't matter what you are if you are a good person.

If I am true to myself, if I am true to mankind, if I am true to humanity, I must understand all the faults that human flesh is heir to.

A man's true wealth hereafter is the good he has done to his fellowmen.

Life is too short for any man to hold bitterness in his heart.

Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much.

Men are more compassionate/(nobler)/magnanimous/generous than God; for men forgive their dead, but God does not.

They do say that when a man starts down hill everybody is ready to help him with a kick, and I suppose it is so.

If there is one thing that will make a man peculiarly and insufferable self-conceited, it is to have his stomach behave itself, the first day at sea, when nearly all his comrades are seasick.