Quotes about Compassion
If everyone would take only according to his needs and would leave the surplus to the needy, no one would be rich, no one poor, no one in misery.
— St. Basil
In solitude we realize that nothing human is alien to us.
— Henri Nouwen
I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
We are all brothers under the skin - and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it.
— Ayn Rand
Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the struggle for equal rights.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Of all the black crimes that humanity is committing against the great Creation, vivisection is the blackest.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Poverty is a plague against which humanity must fight without cease.
— Pope Benedict XVI
... humility + humor = humanity.
— Kathie Lee Gifford
No people on earth can be held, as a people, to be an enemy, for all humanity shares the common hunger for peace and fellowship and justice.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
May all our contemporaries stand beside their brothers and sisters in humanity. Each one of you is called by Christ and must be a missionary of the Good News in word and in active charity.
— Pope Benedict XVI
Dependence is a perpetual call upon humanity, and a greater incitement to tenderness and pity than any other motive whatever.
— Joseph Addison
We are all brothers and we are all suffering the same fate. The same smoke floats over all our heads. Help one another. It is the only way to survive.
— Elie Wiesel