Quotes about Compassion
If you love and serve man, you cannot, by any hiding or stratagem, escape remuneration.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Since we do not take a man on his past history, we do not refuse him because of his past history. I never met a man who was thoroughly bad. There is always some good in him if he gets a chance.
— Henry Ford
No man can tell another his faults so as to benefit him, unless he loves him.
— Henry Ward Beecher
God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.
— Henry Ward Beecher
If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.
— Joseph Addison
No man sympathizes with the sorrows of vanity.
— Samuel Johnson
Be human in this most inhuman of ages; guard the image of man for it is the image of God.
— Thomas Merton
Man's greatest happiness comes from losing himself for the good of others.
— David O. McKay
Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.
— Euripides
I have always thought it would be easier to redeem a man steeped in vice and crime than a greedy, narrow-minded, pitiless merchant.
— Albert Camus
I am an absolute pacifist...It is an instinctive feeling. It is a feeling that possesses me, because the murder of men is disgusting.
— Albert Einstein
The man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give every will-to-live the same reverence for life that he gives to his own. He experiences that other life in his own.
— Albert Schweitzer