Compassion Quotes

Compassion is the basis of morality. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation. View quote
Henry Ward Beecher
Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace. View quote
Albert Schweitzer
Compassion is not a passion; rather a noble disposition of the soul, made ready to receive love, mercy, and other charitable passions. View quote
Dante Alighieri
Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace. View quote
U Thant
Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
If her past were your past, her pain your pain, her level of consciousness your level of consciousness, you would think and act exactly as she does. With this realization comes forgiveness, compassion, peace. View quote
Eckhart Tolle
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion. View quote
Simone de Beauvoir
Make no judgements where you have no compassion. View quote
Anne McCaffrey
Pets have more love and compassion in them than most humans. View quote
Robert Wagner
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. (Dalai Lama)
I do not say that one who is vegetarian is full of compassion and one who is not, is otherwise. We sometimes find people, who are vegetarians, are very bad people. View quote
Morarji Desai
For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed? View quote
Bell hooks
The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another. View quote
Thomas Merton
I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights. View quote
Desmond Tutu
The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others. View quote
Albert Schweitzer
The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others. View quote
Anton Chekhov
There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos. View quote
Milan Kundera
What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of gentle, soft, almost invisible acts of compassion, everyday acts of compassion. In South Africa they have a phrase called ubuntu. Ubuntu comes out of a philosophy that says, the only way for me to be human is for you to reflect my humanity back at me. View quote
Chris Abani
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. View quote
Susan Sontag
My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style. (Maya Angelou)
Unbounded courage and compassion join'd, Tempering each other in the victor's mind, Alternately proclaim him good and great, And make the hero and the man complete. View quote
Joseph Addison
Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism. View quote
Hubert Humphrey
Vegetarianism alone can give us the quality of compassion, which distinguishes man from the rest of the animal world. View quote
Morarji Desai
These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness. View quote
Anthony de Mello