Quotes About Compassion

It's Godlike to love man - even in his sin - merely because he's man.

The poorest being that crawls on earth, contending to save itself from injustice and oppression, is an object respectable in the eyes of God and man.

To drive men from independence to live on alms, is itself great cruelty.

Put yourself in the other man's place and then you will know why he thinks certain things and does certain deeds.

Don't criticize that man unless you have walked in his shoes.

Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love.

The world is my country, the human race is my race. The spirit of man is my god, the future of man is my heaven.

When a bee stings, she dies. She cannot sting and live. When men sting, their better selves die. Every sting kills a better instinct. Men must not turn bees and kill themselves in stinging others.

We are all strong enough to bear other men's misfortunes.

The hearts of all men dwell in the same wilderness.

In sinning, each man sins against all, and each man is at least partly guilt for another's sin. There is no isolated sin.

"I love mankind," he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular."

A good man never fights with a woman.

Full of love for all things in the world, practicing virtue, in order to benefit others, this man alone is happy.

If a man going down into a river, swollen and swiftly flowing, is carried away by the current - how can he help others across?

But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to mind causing him a little of the disgust which his personality excites in ourselves.

A man deep-wounded may feel too much pain To feel much anger.

If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.

He who, having lost his parents or being abandoned, by them without ,just cause, gives himself to a ,man , is called a son self given.

It is better to laugh at man from outside the universe, than to weep for him within.

Men who pass most comfortably through this world are those who possess good digestions and hard hearts.

Man is saved by love and duty, and by the hope that springs from duty, or rather from the moral facts of consciousness, as a flower springs from the soil.

Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder.

The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them.