Quotes about Compassion
The saints are never the kind of killjoy spinster aunts who go in for faultfinding and lack all sense of humor.
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
Dali Lama said, 'when you open the heart of the person with humor, you can tell him the most truth. But if you tell him truth without humor, the heart closes.'
— Marina Abramovic
We should fund the armies of compassion, we should not discriminate against faith-based programs.
— George W. Bush
Oppression involves a failure of the imagination: the failure to imagine the full humanity of other human beings.
— Margaret Atwood
We learn to curb our will and keep our overt actions within the bounds of humanity, long before we can subdue our sentiments and imaginations to the same mild tone.
— William Hazlitt
There is no humanity or charity in destroying self-reliance, dignity, and self-respect.
— Ronald Reagan
True beauty lies in purity of the heart.
— Mahatma Gandhi
God does not need your good works, but your neighbor does.
— Martin Luther
Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
— Hippocrates
It is in your hands to create a better world for all who live in it.
— Nelson Mandela
The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
— Booker T. Washington
Let it not be said that I was silent when they needed me.
— William Wilberforce