Quotes About Compassion

A good heart is a universal key that opens the door of the unthinkable gate of goodness

Always look at good side of a man. And forget his faults.

Sometimes you will do good things and not get an acknowledgement for it. Don't let that dishearten you, the world is a better place with your good deeds.

Sometimes you will do good and not get an acknowledgement for it. Don't let that dishearten you, the world is a better place with your good deeds.

Those who claim to be on the side of good yet do nothing to fight evil are on the side of evil.

I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.

I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil. Government belongs wherever evil needs an adversary and there are people in distress.

Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.

The way a government treats refugees is very instructive.

Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals' suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote.

Conservatives define compassion not by the number of people who recieve some kind of government aid but rather by the number of people who no longer need it.

Despots prefer the friendship of the dog, who, unjustly mistreated and debased, still loves and serves the man who wronged him.

I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.

Government is never so noble as when it is addressing wrongs.

The size of the federal budget is not an appropriate barometer of social conscience or charitable concern.

It's just really tragic after all the horrors of the last 1,000 years we can't leave behind something as primitive as government-sponsored execution.

The greatest source of America's generosity is not our government; it's the good heart of the American people.

Government should be a place where people can come together, and no one gets left behind. No one…gets left behind. An instrument of good.

Compassion comes from the heart, not the government.

Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way to the common feelings of mankind.

Liberals measure compassion by counting the number of people receiving government help.

A government is one that thinks and hears the voice of the poor. A government must live for the poor.

For a government of any party, and for every one of us, even one suicide is worrisome.

How dare Americans allow their government to cause such misery [in the world].