Quotes About Compassion

You know, when real trouble comes your humanity is awakened. The fundamental human experience is that of compassion.

It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.

As long as anyone anywhere is being made to feel less human, our very definition of humanity is at stake, and we are all vulnerable.

All peoples and nations are of one family, the children of one Father, and should be to one another as brothers and sisters.

Compassion is the chief law of human existence.

Humanity is outraged in me and with me. We must not dissimulate nor try to forget this indignation, which is one of the most passionate forms of love.

Every one of us is blind and deaf until our eyes are opened to our fellowmen, until our ears hear the voice of humanity.

One cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own.

I do not look upon human beings as good or bad.

Love is the supreme value around which all moral values can be integrated into one ethical system valid for the whole of humanity.

Justice for crimes against humanity must have no limitations.

What better book can there be than the book of humanity.

To treat anyone as if they were less than human, less than a brother or a sister, no matter what they have done, is to contravene the very laws of our humanity.

As human beings, why does it take somebody to feel like they're close to us for us to see their humanity? Why can't we see the humanity in people that are distant from us?

Woe to humanity, should only a single animal have a seat in the Last Judgement.

We must remain human, even in the most difficult times … Because, despite everything, there must always be humanity within us. We have to bring it to others.

An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path. But he that has humanity, forewarned, Will turn aside and let the reptile live.

I am endeavouring to see God through service of humanity; for I know that God is neither in heaven, nor down below, but in everyone.

Moral courage is the highest expression of humanity.

Mankind will not be reasoned out of the feelings of humanity.

I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else's freedom, just as surely as I am not free when my freedom is taken from me. The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity.

I think with any characterization there's a point where you empathize, no matter how much of a deviance his or her actions may be from your understanding of humanity.

Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity.

Without humility there can be no humanity.