Quotes about Compassion
Love somebody. Just one person. And then spread that to two. And as many as you can. You'll see the difference it makes.
— Oprah Winfrey
When Jesus then is with the multitudes, He is not in His house, for the multitudes are outside of the house, and it is an act which springs from His love of men to leave the house and to go away to those who are not able to come to Him.
— Origen
We should stand up for those who can't protect themselves. Support kids and families who can't support themselves.
— Sangram Singh
I don't like to see people get kicked around. You have to stand up for them.
— Luis Alberto Urrea
It's in our ability to selectively engage and disengage our moral standards, and it helps explain how people can be barbarically cruel in one moment and compassionate the next.
— Albert Bandura
Man is endowed by nature with organic relations to his fellow men; and natural impulse prompts him to consider the needs of others even when they compete with his own.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
To love our neighbor in charity is to love God in man.
— Francis de Sales
Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
The true conservative is the man who has a real concern for injustices and takes thought against the day of reckoning.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
Think on this doctrine, - that reasoning beings were created for one another's sake; that to be patient is a branch of justice, and that men sin without intending it.
— Marcus Aurelius
Hail to the man who went through life always helping others, knowing no fear, and to whom aggressiveness and resentment are alien. Such is the stuff of which the great moral leaders are made.
— Albert Einstein
A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.
— Albert Schweitzer