Quotes About Compassion

We know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all, for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.

Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.

How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will.

Strange is our situation here on Earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men - above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.

Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

I am a Jew, but I am enthralled by the luminous figure of the Nazarene….No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus.

But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people--first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy.

Any society which does not insist upon respect for all life must necessarily decay.

It is humankind's duty to respect all life, not only animals have feelings but even also trees and plants.

Ein Freund ist ein Mensch, der die Melodie deines Herzen kennt und sie dir vorspielt, wenn du sie vergessen hast.

If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.

Not until the creation and maintenance of decent conditions of life for all people are recognized and accepted as a common obligation of all people and all countries - not until then shall we, with a certain degree of justification, be able to speak of humankind as civilized.

Don't dream of being a good person, be a human being is valuable and gives value to life.

More and more I come to value charity and love of one's fellow being above everything else...All our lauded technological progress-our very civilization-is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal.

Man is here for the sake of other men - above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.

Our task as humans is to widen our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exist for other people

Human knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and dignified life.

We are here for the sake of others

Concern for man himself and his fate must always constitute the chief objective of all technological endeavors...in order that the creations of our mind shall be a blessing and not a curse to mankind. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.

Love is the answer

There is no great discoveries and advances, as long as there is an unhappy child on earth. / Ne možemo govoriti o napretku ?ovje?anstva, dok na svijetu ima nesretne djece.

To act intelligently in human affairs is only possible if an attempt is made to understand the thoughts, motives, and apprehensions of one's opponent so fully that one can see the world through his eyes.