Quotes about Compassion
We refuse to despair of mankind. Without having the unreasonable ambition to save men, we still want to serve them.
— Albert Camus
Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.
— Sojourner Truth
The trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest.
— William Osler
It is my belief, that we should not be too sure of having found Christ in ourselves until we have found him also in that part of humanity that is most remote from our own.
— Thomas Merton
The degree to which one is sensitive to other people's suffering, to other (people's) humanity, is the index of one's own humanity
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity...
— Frederick Douglass
While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.
— Maya Angelou
Ubuntu is very difficult to render into a Western language... It is to say, 'My humanity is caught up, is inextricably bound up, in what is yours.'
— Desmond Tutu
In the last resort, a love of God without love of humanity is no love at all.
— Hans Kung
The rising sun can dispel the darkness of night, but it cannot banish the blackness of malice, hatred, bigotry, and selfishness from the hearts of humanity.
— David O. McKay
Even when I cannot see him, I can hear the beautiful gallop of God's heartbeat for humanity.
— Christine Caine
As long as anyone anywhere is being made to feel less human, our very definition of humanity is at stake, and we are all vulnerable.
— Kerry Washington