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Quotes About Compassion

Humanity is waiting for us. Not to hear about our actions, but to see our actions.
~ Hany El-Banna
Humanity has survived because the strong among us have, in the past, been obliged to help the weak. Without this, we would not survive.
~ Hany Abu-Assad
The gift of The Giver is something good and true and beautiful about what is good and true and beautiful in humanity.
~ Kathryn Jean Lopez
I repeat, whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all.
~ Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
Act so as to use humanity, yourself and others, always as an end and never as a means to an end.
~ Immanuel Kant
Mama, humanity is my business.
~ Philip Zimbardo
... wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity.
~ Francis Bacon
Mankind is interdependent, and the happiness of each depends upon the happiness of all, and it is this lesson that humanity has to learn today as the first and the last lesson.
~ Hazrat Inayat Khan
And I want to find a way to be of service to humanity. I think that's crucial. So want to be an artist and a servant, a humanitarian, and I want to play goofy weirdoes.
~ Rainn Wilson
I think, in this strange world of beautiful things, there may be some humanity after all.
~ Lauren DeStefano
No people on earth can be held, as a people, to be an enemy, for all humanity shares the common hunger for peace and fellowship and justice.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
No moral value is greater than humanity.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
We emphasize our differences by nationality, race and financially. [...] It's our common humanity that defines us.
~ Naveen Andrews
I wanted to discuss the suffering of humanity in general, but perhaps we'd better confine ourselves to the sufferings of children.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
Dependence is a perpetual call upon humanity, and a greater incitement to tenderness and pity than any other motive whatever.
~ Joseph Addison
Sometimes mortals can be more horrible than monsters.
~ Rick Riordan
There's not really such thing as 'good' or 'bad' people, there's just like…humanity. And it gets broken sometimes.
~ Isaac Marion, The New Hunger
Humanity needs heroic leadership from those who see all life as precious.
~ Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
We are all brothers and we are all suffering the same fate. The same smoke floats over all our heads. Help one another. It is the only way to survive. (pg. 39)
~ Elie Wiesel, Night
Artists have the responsibility to serve humanity give people hope.
~ Dalai Lama
Creativity has got to start with humanity.
~ Marilyn Monroe
Our problem is that when you lose the touchstone, which is humanity, then when you have something like humans dying, it needs to feel profound.
~ Caroline Dries
Anywhere where the humanity of people is undermined, anywhere where people are left in the dust, there we will find our cause.
~ Desmond Tutu
Humanity is to be met with in a den of robbers.
~ William Hazlitt