Quotes about Compassion
To have peace in the world, men & nations must embrace the nonviolent assertion that ends and means must cohere.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love is creative, understanding goodwill for all men. It is the refusal to defeat any individual.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
My soul is too glad and too great to be at heart the enemy of any man
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The ultimate solution to the race problem lies in the willingness of men to obey the unenforceable.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
I just can't see myself with a man on the ropes and just to prove how bad I am - and I see in his eyes, his head, he's hopeless - and I'm just deliberately hitting. I don't do that.
— Muhammad Ali
The absence of sentimentalism in Christ's relations with men is what makes His tenderness so exquisitely touching.
— Phillips Brooks
To protect creation, to protect every man and every woman, to look upon them with tenderness and love is to open up a horizon of hope.
— Pope Francis
I say only that this man [Donald Trump] is not Christian if he has said things like that [about wall]. We must see if he said things in that way and in this I give the benefit of the doubt.
— Pope Francis
He who injures one man threatens many.
— Publilius Syrus
Every prison that men build Is built with bricks of shame, And bound with bars lest Christ should see How men their brothers maim.
— Oscar Wilde
The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy. It is as real a loss that others should be low, as that we should be low; for we musthave a society.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
If I have unjustly wrested a plank from a drowning man, I must restore it to him though I drown myself.
— Henry David Thoreau