Quotes about Compassion

Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the wellbeing of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

One day the absurdity of the almost universal human belief in the slavery of other animals will be palpable. We shall then have discovered our souls and become worthier of sharing this planet with them.

The surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive.He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love

We must combine the toughness of the serpent and the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.

I am tired of seeing people battered and bruised and bloody, injured and jumped on, along the Jericho Roads of life.

A fortune for one man that was more than he needed should not be build on ten thousand ruined men who were left without the means of life.

A wondrous subtle thing is love, for here were we two, who had never seen each other before that day, between whom no word or even look of affection had ever passed, and yet now in an hour of trouble our hands instinctively sought for each other.

I have wrought my simple plan If I give one hour of joy To the boy who's half a man, Or the man who's half a boy.

universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.