Quotes About Compassion

Sometimes a sad man can talk the sadness right out through his mouth. Sometimes a killin' man can talk the murder right out of his mouth an' not to no murder. You done right. Don't you kill nobody if you can help it.

No men really know about other human beings. The best you can do is to suppose that they are like himself.

You can't hate men if you know them.

Yes, I can understand that. It must be a hard thing to kill a man you don't know and don't hate." "Maybe that makes it easier," said Louis. "You have a point, Louis. But some men are friends with the whole world in their hearts, and there are others that hate themselves and spread their hatred around like butter on hot bread.

What do I want in a doctor? Perhaps more than anything else—a friend with special knowledge.

It's hard to give people things—I guess it's harder to be given things, though.

It's a good thing to be loved, even late.

The law was designed to save, not to destroy

Some of the owner men were kind because they hated what they had to do, and some of them were angry because they hated to be cruel, and some of them were cold because they had long ago found that one could not be an owner unless one were cold.

A war comes always to someone else...The war, at first anyway, was for other people...And just as war is always for somebody else, so it is also true that someone else always gets killed. And Mother of God! that wasn't true either...

Our Father who art in nature...must have a great and overwhelming love for no-goods and blots-on-the-town and bums, and Mack and the boys.

sorrow is the mother of a general compassion

If you're in trouble or hurt or need—go to poor people. They're the only ones that'll help—the only ones.

There's an awful lot of inactive kindness which is nothing but laziness, not wanting any trouble, confusion, or effort. There

She started for the door, and when she reached it, she turned about. I'm learnin' one thing good, she said. Learnin' it all a time, ever' day. If you're in trouble or hurt or need—go to poor people. They're the only ones that'll help—the only ones.

Si uno tiene un tiro de caballos no pone el grito en el cielo si los tiene que alimentar cuando no están trabajando. Pero si uno tiene hombres trabajando para él, le importa un comino. Los caballos valen mucho más que los hombres.

Our people are good people; our people are kind people. Pray God some day kind people won't all be poor. Pray God some day a kid can eat.

In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved.

The shame of their ignorance was too great for the children.

Non abbiamo conclusioni da trarre, tranne che il popolo russo è come tutti i popoli del mondo. Di certo c'è gente cattiva tra loro, ma i buoni sono la stragrande maggioranza.

Daca nu poti vedea sau auzi sau atinge un om, e mai bine sa-l lasi in pace.

How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children?

We don't think you're a bad father. Poor things, said Adam. How would you know? You've never had any other kind.

You know how you feel about Sam an' all the guys that travel with you? Well, I feel that way about all the workin' stiffs in the country.