Quotes about Compassion

There are people who have the capacity to imagine themselves as someone else, there are people who have no such capacity (when the lack is extreme, we call them psychopaths), and there are people who have the capacity but choose not to exercise it.

True greatness, true leadership, is achieved not by reducing men to one's service but in giving oneself in selfless service to them.

Forgive everyone for your own sins and be sure to tell them you love them which you do.

I believe in order, tenderness, and piety.

He no longer cared about anything (as before) but now he also cared about everything in principle; that is to say, it was all the same to him and he belonged to the world and there was nothing he could do about it.

I'm going to write ceaselessly about the dignity of human beings no matter who and or what they are, and the less dignity a person has the fewer words I'll use.

After all a homeless man has reason to cry, everything in the world is pointed against him.

Nothing else in the world matters but the kindness of grace, God's gift to suffering mortals

It was men who stopped slavery. It was men who ran up the stairs in the Twin Towers to rescue people. It was men who gave up their seats on the lifeboats of the Titanic. Men are made to take risks and live passionately on behalf of others.

God Almighty has set before me two great objects: the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners.

God is love, and His law is love. Its two great principles are love to God and love to man.

In my ideal world, no child would suffer. Charitable instincts would prevail. There would be global acceptance of all different types of people.