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Quotes About Compassion

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity.
~ Voltaire
The first law of humanity is not to kill your children.
~ Hans Joachim Schellnhuber
Every murder or other injury, no matter for what cause, committed or inflicted on another is a crime against humanity.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Anarchism's lone objective is to reach a point at which the belligerence of some humans against humanity, in whatever form, comes to a halt.
~ Gustav Landauer
If you can capture the humanity of a family struggling in an economic crisis you can make a difference. You can raise awareness just of the simple humanity.
~ Emily Blunt
When humans act with cruelty we characterize them as "animals", yet the only animal that displays cruelty is humanity.
~ Anthony D. Williams
Stanley didn't shy away from true humanity or from the ugliness that all people are capable of.
~ Matthew Modine
When we hear the other person's feelings and needs, we recognize our common humanity.
~ Marshall B. Rosenberg
I think, at the end of the day, the real antagonist is the brokenness of humanity.
~ Lecrae
Every human heart is human.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.
~ Albert Schweitzer
Abortion is an attack on the family and the humanity that unites us all.
~ Alveda King
Humanity is the equity of the heart.
~ Confucius
We would not be here if humanity were inherently evil. We'd have eaten ourselves alive long ago.
~ Patton Oswalt
I am certain and have always stressed that the destination of mankind is to become more and more humane. The ideal of humanity has to be revived.
~ Albert Schweitzer
If our tears do not lead us to act then we have lost the reason of our humanity, which is compassion.
~ Dalai Lama
How do you rid the Earth of humans? Rid the humans of their humanity.
~ Rick Yancey
When you're doing fantasy, you can get so caught up in the magic of it that you lose the humanity.
~ Austin Butler
The belief that we some day shall be able to prevent war is to me one with the belief in the possibility of making humanity really human.
~ Ellen Key
The Bahá´í Faith is consolation for humanity.
~ Baha'u'llah
Everything that human beings feel, we feel. We can become extremely wise and sensitive to all of humanity and the whole universe simply by knowing ourselves, just as we are.
~ Pema Chodron
As in the rankest soil the most beautiful flowers are grown, so in the dark soil of poverty the choicest flowers of humanity have developed and bloomed.
~ James Allen
I'm amazed at how Muslims keep their humanity after reading the Koran.
~ Mosab Hassan Yousef
I think humans will find their humanity sometime, somehow.
~ Robert Thurman