Quotes about Compassion

He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and under a just God, can not long retain it.

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help.

I am for those means which will give the greatest good to the greatest number.

Those who would deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.

We are not enemies but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory shall swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of nature.

Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.