Quotes About Compassion

The drying up a single tear has more, of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.

When the dignity of one person is denied, all of us are denied.

Human dignity is the same for all human beings: when I trample on the dignity of another, I am trampling on my own.

I won't defile my blessings by imagining that I deserve them. Until every human receives the dignity I casually enjoy, I pray my heart aches with tension and my belly rumbles for injustice.

Human dignity begins to assert itself only at the point where man is distinguishable from the beast by pity for it.

When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.

Human dignity should be without borders.

I won't live to see the death-with-dignity movement reach critical mass, but I call on you to carry it forward.

Dignity in death is a birthright of each living thing.

Treat people with dignity and respect.

That's one of the things I hope that the book can do, is to restore some dignity to Joe Cinque.

A dog has kindliness in his heart and dignity in his demeanor. The finest qualities anyone can have.

Abject poverty is demeaning, is an assault on the dignity of those that suffer it. In the end it demeans us all. It makes the freedom of all of us less meaningful.

Terrorism is contempt for human dignity.

We lose dignity if we tolerate the intolerable.

How you behave toward cats here below determines your status in Heaven.

Well, I think when we can turn to the person sitting next to us and really see them with kindness and see ourselves reflected back - when there's some dignity and compassion traveling back and forth.

Do not romanticize the poor...We are all people, human beings subject to the same temptations and faults as all others. Our poverty damages our dignity.

Let us build bridges, my friends, build bridges to human dignity across that gulf that separates black America from white America.

I think it is incumbent on anyone who can to lift human dignity to the highest possible levels, maintaining one's own and helping to raise that of others.

We will stand against violence and intimidation. We will stand for the rights and dignity of all human beings.

You can take somebody's job, you have to take their job, but you don't have to take their dignity.

The people in Tacloban have great dignity and deserve better than what they have gotten

I try to treat whoever I meet as an old friend [with dignity, with honor].