Quotes about Compassion

I'm sick and tired of black and white people of good intent giving aspirin to a society that is dying of a cancerous disease.

The measure of the greatness of a society is found in the way it treats those most in need, those who have nothing apart from their poverty!

The church has an unconditional obligation to the victims of any ordering society, even if they do not belong to the Christian community.

We live in a society that likes to kick people when they're down. Don't be a fair-weather friend. Stick with people. They need you more in the tough times than they do in the good times.

The abolition of the death penalty is making us a civilized society. It shows we actually do mean business when we say we have reverence for life.

As a civilised society, we have a duty to support those among us who are vulnerable and in need. When times are hard, that duty should be felt more than ever, not disappear or diminish.

When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendor of the past; when faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion—its message becomes meaningless.

Who is a Jew? A person whose integrity decays when unmoved by the knowledge of wrong done to other people.

Religion declined not because it was refuted, but because it became irrelevant, dull, oppressive, insipid. When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendor of the past; when faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion—its message becomes meaningless.

Only that which is good for all men is good for every man. No one is truly inspired for his own sake. He who is blessed, is a blessing for others.

There is no reverence for God without reverence for man. Love of man is the way to the love of God.

Ye shall kindle no fire—not even the fire of righteous indignation.