Quotes About Compassion

A man must learn to understand the motives of human beings, their illusions, and their sufferings.

How vile and despicable war seems to me! I would rather be hacked to pieces than take part in such an abominable business.

For human community life cannot long endure on a basis of crude force, brutality, terror, and hate.

I can calculate everything even the velocity of light But Cannot calculate the Hate of people behind their Smile.

Learn to be happy through the good fortunes and joys of your friends and not through senseless quarrels. If you allow these natural feelings to blossom within you, your every burden will seem lighter or more bearable to you, you will find your own way through patience, and you will spread joy everywhere.

Don't judge a fish by it's ability to climb a tree.

People start their lives at last when they are able to live for something other than themselves.

Not mastery but service," will lead people in the right way.

Weak people get revenge, strong people forgive, and intelligent people ignore.

human community life cannot long endure on a basis of crude force, brutality, terror, and hate. Only understanding for our neighbors, justice in our dealings, and willingness to help our fellow men can give human society permanence and assure security for the individual.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile

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I feel compelled to say something else to you. There has been a certain ill-feeling between us the cause of which I do not want to analyze. I have struggled against the feeling of bitterness attached to it, with complete success. I think of you again with unmixed geniality and ask you to try to do the same with me. It is a shame when two real fellows who have extricated themselves somewhat from this shabby world do not afford each other mutual pleasure.

Albert Einstein believes in humanity, in a peaceful world of mutual helpfulness, and in the high mission of science

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

Para que sea eficaz el comportamiento ético de los hombres debe basarse en la compasión, la educación y en motivos sociales: no necesita de ninguna base religiosa. Sería muy triste por parte de la humanidad si sólo se refrenara por miedo al castigo y por esperanza de un premio después de la muerte.

Le persone iniziano a vivere per la prima volta solo quando diventano capaci di non vivere per se stesse

Only a life lived in the service to others is worth living.

We do not forget the humane attitude of the Soviet Union who was the only one among the big powers to open her doors to hundreds of thousands of Jews when the Nazi armies were advancing in Poland.

Vivisezione. Nessuno scopo è così alto da giustificare metodi così indegni.

My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddly with my pronounced lack of need for direct contact with other human beings and human communities.

Nulla darà la possibilità di sopravvivenza sulla terra quanto l'evoluzione verso una dieta vegetariana

For if you damn others for their errors, how can you not also damn yourself—your entire being or personhood—for your failings? Give some thought to that dilemma! Your hating others as persons, in other words, borders much too close on self-hatred.

The kingdom in which Jesus wanted his contemporaries to believe was a kingdom of love and service, a kingdom of human brotherhood and sisterhood in which every person is loved and respected because he or she is a person. We cannot believe in and hope for such a kingdom unless we have learned to be moved with compassion for our fellow-beings.