Quotes About Compassion

Mercy is the true power that can save humanity and the world from sin and evil.

The reason that gets me is, and the greatest part of my job and what I do, is the humanity of it and there's certain moments where that really cuts through.

When any part of humanity is sidelined, the rest of us cannot sit on the sidelines.

What is needed in the world today is a Civil Rights Movement for the Soul, freeing humanity at last from the oppression of its belief in a violent, angry, and vindictive God.

Our democratic richness arrives when we're able to comprehend our collective humanity accurately.

Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the struggle for equal rights.

I worked in the NHS as a hospital orderly during my national service, and people thought it was a noble service. But over the years it's lost its humanity.

Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.

Those who kept their sanity and humanity intact in the face of awful adversity. Heroes named and unnamed, some known only to God.

Nothing will change until we demolish the "we-they" mentality. We are human, and therefore all human concerns are ours. And those concerns are personal.

Writing is a way of sharing our humanity.

Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment

It seems that humanity is incapable of putting a halt to the shedding of innocent blood.

To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity.

Complete and total perfection will come about only when we feel that our perfection is no perfections as long as the rest of humanity remains imperfect.

The truest state of humanity is that you're living for other people.

You look at someone long enough, you discover their humanity.

I sincerely believe that if Bush and Cheney recognized the full humanity of other people's mothers around the world, they wouldn't commit the crimes they commit.

I think the rapidly growing tendency to regard animals as born for nothing except slavery to so-called humanity absolutely disgusting.

Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.

Embrace with tender affection the whole of humanity, especially the poorest, the weakest, the least important.

If you focus only on yourself and neglect others, you will lose; but you will gain if you value others as much as you cherish yourself.

My own share making contribution [to the the well-being of humanity]. So I never feel I am something special.

We lose our bearings entirely by speaking of the 'lower classes' when we mean humanity minus ourselves.