Quotes about Compassion

If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.

We must be prepared to make the same heroic sacrifices for the cause of peace that we make ungrudgingly for the cause of war.

Man is here for the sake of other men - above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.

We are here for the sake of others

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.

For human community life cannot long endure on a basis of crude force, brutality, terror, and hate.

human community life cannot long endure on a basis of crude force, brutality, terror, and hate. Only understanding for our neighbors, justice in our dealings, and willingness to help our fellow men can give human society permanence and assure security for the individual.

Only a life lived in the service to others is worth living.

When one individual comes into intimate contact with another, she—or he, of course, as the case may be—must almost inevitably receive or inflict suffering.

Contemplatives are not likely to become gamblers, or procurers, or drunkards; they do not as a rule preach intolerance, or make war; do not find it necessary to rob, swindle or grind the faces of the poor.

I'm not denying their kindness," said the Rani. "But after all kindness isn't the only virtue.

And the two essential and indispensable things are first of all intelligence in the right most sense of that word and goodwill or the old fashion word charity/love, I mean these two things have to go hand in hand. Intelligence and knowledge without charity or goodwill would perhaps be inhuman and goodwill or charity undirected by intelligence or knowledge would be either impotent or misguided, the two have to go together.