Quotes about Compassion
Think of what a paradise this world would be if men were kind and wise.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
A ruthless man extends his ruthlessness from those he does not love to those he loves.
— Confucius
The holy man was the whole man, the man of integrity, who not only tried to change the world, but to live in it as it was.
— Dorothy Day
Some have more capacity. Some proceed a few steps along the way. But Christ seemed to love all men. He desired all to be saved.
— Dorothy Day
Only friendliness produces friendship. And we must look far deeper into the soul of man for the thing that produces friendliness.
— GK Chesterton
Which not peace for the man who is forced to go to war, for he will find his peace. But wish peace for the man who goes to war willingly, for he will never find his peace.
— Miguel
A man who takes away another man's freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow mindedness.
— Nelson Mandela
A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.
— Albert Schweitzer
Men are more compassionate/(nobler)/magnanimous/generous than God; for men forgive their dead, but God does not.
— Mark Twain
If there is one thing that will make a man peculiarly and insufferable self-conceited, it is to have his stomach behave itself, the first day at sea, when nearly all his comrades are seasick.
— Mark Twain
Nothing degrades a man do more than the allowed stoop so low as to hate someone
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is the duty of every man to uphold the dignity of every woman.
— Pope John Paul II