Quotes about Compassion

I've always been attracted to girls whose hearts are the biggest thing about them. People can be very sweet and kind to others who can do a lot for them. I want to find a girl who will be the same person to those who can't do anything for her in return.

The poorest people are the sweetest people.

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.

My faith tells me where to go and get started and what kind of sympathy to have for people once you get there.

No one should have to go to school with a bulletproof backpack or be afraid to go to synagogue or church or a restaurant.

I condemn racism on all levels, whether personal or systemic.

Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone therefore we are saved by love.

Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.

Philanthropy combines genuine pity with the display of power and that the latter element explains why the powerful are more inclined to be generous than to grant social justice.

Great achievement! I learn how to be tolerant when I become the victim of somebody else's spiritual pride [1928].

it is as difficult to get charity out of piety as to get reasonableness out of rationalism.

Forgiveness is the final form of love.