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Quotes About Compassion

Of all the black crimes that humanity is committing against the great Creation, vivisection is the blackest.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
I care about the human race, and I strive to understand it.
~ Janice Tanton
Laughter is a virus that infects you with humanity.
~ Luis Alberto Urrea
The necessities of our condition require a thousand offices of tenderness, which mere regard for the species will never dictate.
~ Samuel Johnson
This idea of weapons of mass extermination is utterly horrible and is something which no one with one spark of humanity can tolerate.
~ Bertrand Russell
I told him that I did not believe that they could burn people in our age, that humanity would never tolerate it . . .
~ Elie Wiesel
Poverty is a plague against which humanity must fight without cease.
~ Pope Benedict XVI
I want people to see some of their own humanity no matter who they are.
~ Phylicia Rashad
Humanity, in the aggregate, is progressing, and philanthropy looks forward hopefully.
~ Hosea Ballou
Here's what I would want for humanity, because this is what I have come to see is true: it's so simple when we listen to people.
~ Byron Katie
Without "ethical culture", there is no salvation for humanity.
~ Albert Einstein
Humanity is outraged in me and with me.
~ George Sand
My passion is to tell stories that reflect humanity.
~ Pam Grier
I try to make my books reflect humanity as I see it.
~ Tony Hillerman
The recognition of pain and fear in others give rise in us to pity, and in our pity is our humanity, our redemption.
~ Dean Koontz
There should be a spirit of dialogue. Whenever we see any disagreements, we must think how to solve them on the basis of recognition of oneness of the entire humanity. This is the modern reality.
~ Dalai Lama
All of humanity is searching for truth, justice, and beauty.
~ Miguel Angel Ruiz
The appreciation of pleasure can be the anchor of humanity.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Humanity is actually much more cooperative and empathic than [it's] given credit for.
~ Frans de Waal
At the end of the day, you have to find the humanity in you in each character.
~ Russell Hornsby
I hope I have repaid Australia for the humanity it showed me, as it has shown to so many others over the years.
~ John Yu
If you stare at someone long enough, you start to see their humanity.
~ Mark Andrus
... humility + humor = humanity.
~ Kathie Lee Gifford
I want to be remembered as a great actor - and a shining example of humanity.
~ Jesse L. Martin