Quotes About Compassion

The secret of human happiness is not in self-seeking but in self-forgetting.

The decay of giving is today matched by a hardness towards receiving.

Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they're only animals.

There is tenderness only in the coarsest demand: that no-one shall go hungry any more.

Often they win sympathy by a certain good-naturedness, a kindly involvement in other people's lives: selflessness as speculation.

I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.

And once again sentimentality seems to be dialectically related to violence and brutality, in imagination if not in deed.

We need everyone who suffers to be a victim because only thus can we maintain our pretense to universal understanding and experience the warm glow of our own compassion, so akin to the warmth that a strong, stiff drink imparts in the cold.

But life is not a matter of double-entry book-keeping. No number of years in prison can be equivalent to the torture and killing of children: if it were, the term could be served in advance and the person who served it would be entitled to commit his crimes on his release.

Only a man with a heart of stone could read of the death of Little Nell without laughing.' Oscar Wilde

For them, the real and most pressing question raised by any social problem is: 'How do I appear concerned and compassionate to all my friends, colleagues, and peers?

compassion being measured by the amount of other people's money you are prepared to pay for the supposed resolution of a social problem.

Love is the only thing you can really give in all this world. When you give love, you give everything.

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.

Compassion for myself is the most powerful healer of them all.

The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable.

The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.

I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart, and that is softness of head.

There is not a man of us who does not at times need a helping hand to be stretched out to him, and then shame upon him who will not stretch out the helping hand to his brother.

This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

Let the watchwords of all our people be the old familiar watchwords of honesty, decency, fair-dealing, and commonsense."... "We must treat each man on his worth and merits as a man. We must see that each is given a square deal, because he is entitled to no more and should receive no less.""The welfare of each of us is dependent fundamentally upon the welfare of all of us.

We cordially believe in the rights of property. We think that normally and in the long run the rights of humanity, coincide with the rights of property... But we feel that if in exceptional cases there is any conflict between the rights of property and the rights of man, then we must stand for the rights of man.

We must exercise the largest charity towards the wrong-doer that is compatible with relentless war against the wrong-doing. We must be just to others, generous to others, and yet we must realize that it is a shameful and a wicked thing not to withstand oppression with high heart and ready hand.