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Quotes About Compassion

Nothing degrades a man do more than the allowed stoop so low as to hate someone
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Men's hearts are cold. They are indifferent.
~ Mother Jones
He who cannot look over a battlefield with a dry eye, causes the death of many men uselessly.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Well, I love fishing. I wouldn't kill a fly myself but I've no hesitation in killing a fish. A lot of men are like that. No bother. Out you come. Thump. And that's not the only reason.
~ Norman MacCaig
Do not reproach a man with his misfortunes, fearing lest Nemesis may overtake you.
~ Pittacus of Mytilene
Humility saves man: pride makes him lose his way.
~ Pope Francis
The mercy of Jesus is not just sentiment: indeed it is a force that gives life, that raises man up!
~ Pope Francis
It is the duty of every man to uphold the dignity of every woman.
~ Pope John Paul II
It is a pleasure appropriate to man, for him to save a fellow-man, and gratitude is acquired in no better way.
~ Ovid
Like you do about Nelson Mandela, you can't help feeling the guy's a good man.
~ Ralph Steadman
If you love and serve man, you cannot, by any hiding or stratagem, escape remuneration.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you would know a man, observe how he treats a cat.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Women seem to have almost unlimited capacity for forgiveness. (Since it is usually a man who needs forgiveness, this must be a racial survival trait.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
We know that if one man's rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered.
~ Robert Kennedy
Since we do not take a man on his past history, we do not refuse him because of his past history. I never met a man who was thoroughly bad. There is always some good in him if he gets a chance.
~ Henry Ford
No man can tell another his faults so as to benefit him, unless he loves him.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
~ Herman Melville
It is hardly possible to estimate how many marriages fail to prosper or are actually ruined because the man lacks any inkling of the art of love.
~ Hermann Graf Keyserling
If one will fix his heart in such a way and assist the world and its people, he will have the devotion of the men who see and hear him.
~ Hojo Shigetoki
What is the life of a man more than the life of a lamb, or any guiltless animal?
~ James Hogg
What is the value of sticking a microphone in a man's face right after he has learned of his wife's death?
~ Jessica Savitch
A man doesn't learn to understand anything unless he loves it.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe