Quotes About Compassion

I am an absolute pacifist...It is an instinctive feeling. It is a feeling that possesses me, because the murder of men is disgusting.

Human beings are not condemned, because of their biological constitution, to annihilate each other or to be at the mercy of a cruel, self-inflicted fate.

The destiny of man is to be more and more human.

The man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give every will-to-live the same reverence for life that he gives to his own. He experiences that other life in his own.

The thinking man must oppose all cruelties no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo.

No man need fear death, he need fear only that he may die without having known his greatest power: the power of his free will to give his life for others

I wanted to live the inner life of every man I saw, look at the world through his eyes.

A good-natured man has the whole world to be happy out of.

It's a long day's drive any way you look at it. With a man who has taken your sins - real and imagined - and stitched them onto the sackcloth of his own soul, it is endless.

Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart, the kindlier hand; Ring out the darkness of the land; Ring in the Christ that is to be.

He who loves best his fellow-man, is loving God the holiest way he can.

Man, man, is thy brother, and thy father is God.

CONSOLATION, n. The knowledge that a better man is more unfortunate than yourself.

When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes.

To kill a man will be considered as disgusting [in the twentieth century] as we in this day consider it disgusting to eat one.

Somehow love gives even to a dull man the knowledge of his lover's heart.

It's a muscle that everybody needs to develop: the ability to see themselves in someone else's circumstances without having to paint that person white, make that person straight, or a man.

It seems to me that a man who is incapable of humor is capable of cruelty.

We have lost the invaluable faculty of being shocked a faculty which has hitherto almost distinguished the Man or Woman from the beast or child.

Any man who does not like dogs and want them about does not deserve to be in the White House.

The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men's pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish.

I didn't want to send a man to hell on an empty stomach.

A man of humanity is one who, in seeking to establish himself, finds a foothold for others and who, in desiring attaining himself, helps others to attain.

The man of noble mind seeks to achieve the good in others and not their evil. The little-minded man is the reverse of this.