Quotes About Compassion

I feel like the one insight that's extremely comforting to me about the world is that we all share the same pool of emotion that we draw from.

When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.

Few, save the poor, feel for the poor.

I am a poor hater.

The poor get bored the same as the rest of us. Their happiness might be as important to them as their health.

These places I've seen have clubbed my mind - they are so poor and depressing. I don't know what we can do to help these people, but we've got to do something.

Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Oh, how I would like a poor Church, and for the poor.

I wanted to be a doctor at some point, and I was always bringing home strays from school: people who were too poor to pay fees or have food. My parents never rebuked me or told me that they were hard-pressed, too.

Not all of those who cry 'The poor, the poor!' will enter the kingdom of heaven.

I was determined to become a criminal lawyer and help look after the poor.

I've been to those places where it's 'poor, pitiful me.'

God chooses to arrive among the poor and the insignificant and the politically awkward, so what are we missing when we overlook them?

I didn't get bullied any more than anybody else. I think I got bullied more for being poor than being gay. But no more than any other kid. And I'm sure that I did my fair share of picking on other kids, too. We're all humans.

The hopeless grief of those poor colored people affected me more than almost anything else.

I'm from Naples. I was born in a poor neighborhood and I always, in my heart, felt like it would be amazing to be able to adopt a child from Naples. I could give someone the opportunity I had. I would love to give back in that way and pay it forward.

The world needs a person like me so that many other rich people will be able to follow my role model. If they do, many poor people will be helped.

I often think that people who write a lot about poverty need to go and spend more time with poor people.

We are not Marxist or capitalist; we are for the poor people.

In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor.

A calling is you feel - you look out and see the need - maybe it's the need for the poor, to help poor people. Maybe it's the need to get involved in the race problem, as Martin Luther King was - felt called.

I believe in the Democratic party, and their philosophy and what they stand for - for the poor people.

Do you hate poor people or do you just hate poor people with jobs?

If I didn't like poor people, why would I come and tell them how to make their lives better?