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Quotes About Compassion

All the men and women whom I have faced at that final moment, convince me that in what I have done, I have not prevented a single murder.
~ Albert Pierrepoint
All men and women of good will are bound by the task of pursuing peace.
~ Pope Francis
Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
~ Elie Wiesel
Don't gossip- particularly about other women. Kindness is the secret to true femininity.
~ Carole Landis
The idea of blaming alcohol or drugs or quote-unquote "promiscuity" is a false path. The real issue is that men should not hurt women.
~ Jon Shenk
Any woman who does not live for unselfish service is a useless cumberer of the earth.
~ Anna Howard Shaw
Men and boys, we show our manhood through the way we treat our women. Our wives, our sisters, our mothers.
~ Desmond Tutu
We are sometimes so busy being good angels that we neglect to be good men and women.
~ Saint Francis de Sales
I am serving the Lord and helping women save babies.
~ Norma McCorvey
Gracious Lord, oh bomb the Germans. Spare their women for Thy Sake, And if that is not too easy, We will pardon Thy Mistake. But, gracious Lord, whate'er shall be, Don't let anyone bomb me.
~ John Betjeman
When a friend of Abigail and John Adams was killed at Bunker Hill, Abigail's response was to write a letter to her husband and include these words, "My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
~ David McCullough, John Adams
Forgiving men is so much easier than forgiving women.
~ Margaret Atwood, CAT'S EYE.
Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues.
~ Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam
Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe.
~ Elie Wiesel
The only way to build a peaceful community is to build men and women who are lovers and makers of peace.
~ John Andreas Widtsoe
And then theres always the crying and the weeping that we hear-children, women, even men. And these images and these sounds are always with me.
~ Christiane Amanpour
Is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater courage? Without her, man would not be. If nonviolence is to be the law of our being, the future is with women.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
I hope that no more groans of wounded men and women will ever go to the ear of the Great Spirit Chief above, and that all people may be one people.
~ Chief Joseph
If women ruled the world and we all got massages, there would be no war.
~ Carrie Snow
I am always on the women's side.
~ Mary Boykin Chesnut
Perhaps we could push beyond these legalistic gender roles if we spent less time worrying about "acting like men" and "acting like women," and more time acting like Jesus.
~ Rachel Held Evans
It takes strong men and women to love ... people strong enough inside themselves to love ... without humiliation.
~ William Inge
Men who love women are loved by women
~ Zan Perrion
Like a stone thrown into a pond, a good deed can create ripples that extend far beyond the initial splash.
~ Jeanne Phillips