Quotes About Compassion

My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.

The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.

The world is now too small for anything but brotherhood.

Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.

The trouble with socialists is that they let their bleeding hearts go to their bloody heads.

Forgiveness is abandoning your right to revenge.

While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.

Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.

Don't confront me with my failures, I had not forgotten them.

If compassion and mercy are not compatible with politics then something is the matter with politics.

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.

A better politics is one where we appeal to each other's basic decency instead of our basest fears.

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

I never intend to adjust myself to the madness of militarism.

Have pity on a dinosaur.

We [Americans] have to get beyond the greed-run-amok. We have to get beyond indifference to the poor and working people. We have to get beyond polarized politics.

Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind.

Politics come from man. Mercy, compassion, and justice come from God.

Everyone should have health insurance? I say everyone should have health care. I'm not selling insurance.

I'm not a leftist; I'm where the righteous ought to be.

Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.

A whole lot of the way identity politics has gone seems to me to deny empathy.