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Quotes About Compassion

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired in the final analysis, is a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, who are cold and not clothed.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
I saw a bunch of kids who needed love and acceptance and to be allowed to live as normal children, instead of having to fight to conceal their misery, fear, and weakness.
~ Dwight E. Abbott
It's easier to throw away a child who reacts to his abuse than attempt to heal his pain.
~ Dwight E. Abbott
it is a terrible fact, but it is a fact, that few people have the imagination or the moral sensitivity to get very excited about actions which they don't participate in themselves.... and hence about which they feel no personal responsibility
~ Dwight Macdonald
To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.
~ Pearl S. Buck
Part of my life is saving life.
~ Dith Pran
Don't dream of being a good person, be a human being is valuable and gives value to life.
~ Albert Einstein
Being a pacifist to save your own life is normal, being a pacifist for the lives of others is true pacifism.
~ Ammon Hennacy
I think human beings make life beautiful. There's a lot of beauty in everything. I think what makes life beautiful is the ability to acknowledge that.
~ Andrew McMahon
It's by what you do that you communicate to others that you are deeply involved in their well being.
~ Ashley Montagu
He who has not forgiven an enemy has never yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.
~ C. S. Lewis
To save an animal's life in order that it may suffer indefinitely is something I would never condone.
~ Louis Leakey
Let me remember that each life must follow its own course, and that what happens to other people has absolutely nothing to do with what happens to me.
~ Marjorie Holmes
The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
~ Socrates
It is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action.
~ Zachary Quinto
I try to spend a little bit of time on my knees every day, but it all begins for me with cherishing the dignity, the worth, the value of every human life.
~ Mike Pence
Root out the violence in your life, and learn to live compassionately and mindfully. Seek peace. When you have peace within, real peace with others is possible.
~ Nhat Hanh
I believe that you can change a life with just one word.
~ Onew
Saving a life overrides territories.
~ Ovadia Yosef
I wonder why it is we are not all kinder to each other ... How much the world needs it! How easily it is done!
~ Henry Drummond
To achieve self actualization, do good things for other people that you would want to be done onto yourself
~ Meg Cabot
Sometimes you forgive people simply becuase you still want them in your life.
~ Ally Carter
I have never judged life. If I had, I would have been a complete mess.
~ Anupam Kher
I think you can measure how pathetic your life is by how much joy you get from learning about other people's faults and troubles.
~ Bradford Winters