Quotes about Compassion
Who, cher monsieur, will sleep on the floor for us? Whether I am capable of it myself? Look, I'd like to be and I shall be. Yes, we shall all be capable of it one day, and that will be salvation.
— Albert Camus
Be nice to people... maybe it'll be unappreciated, unreciprocated, or ignored, but spread the love anyway. We rise by lifting others.
— Germany Kent
Justice is the grammar of things. Mercy is the poetry of things.
— Frederick Buechner
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
— Thomas Jefferson
The world is now too small for anything but brotherhood.
— A Powell Davies
As a general rule, I would say that human beings never behave more badly toward one another than when they believe they are protecting God.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
— Thomas Jefferson
A better politics is one where we appeal to each other's basic decency instead of our basest fears.
— Barack Obama
The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
The Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. I think it's a good rule for politics, too.
— Hillary Clinton
Politics, differences of religion or race, all that fades away when we are confronted with the awesome power of nature, and we're reminded that all we have is each other.
— Barack Obama
In a time of domestic crisis, men of goodwill and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics.
— John F. Kennedy