Quotes About Compassion

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

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

You can protect your liberties in this world only by protecting the other man's freedom. You can be free only if I am free.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.

If we have freedom, we have life. Therefore to live, we must love our fellow man, or all will live with the chains of strife.

Your friendship means so much to me that... When you cry, I cry. When you laugh, I laugh. When you jump out a window, I laugh some more.

I love everybody. Some I love to be around. Some I love to avoid. And others I love to punch in the face.

Never ask old people how they are if you have anything to do that day.

I never leave a dog alone in a car on a hot day. I make sure it's with an elderly person holding a baby.

Return something not for the possibility of a reward, but for the joy of giving a gift which you did not have to pay for.

No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend.

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is about to be sold, the other to be buried.

You can always tell a real friend: When you make a fool of yourself, he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.

If you ever see me getting beaten by the police, put down the video camera and come help me.

It takes a big man to cry, but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man.

Give beer to those who are perishing, wine to those who are in anguish.

Nothing more cheerful than talking about our friends shortcomings.

Be nice to everyone on your way to the top because you pass them all on the way down.

Nobody cares that youre smart and nobody cares that your kids dont have bruises.

Families with babies, and families without babies are sorry for each other.

There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world, it is better than bombing one out of it.

They speak of my drinking, but never think of my thirst.

Someday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had.