Quotes about Compassion
To have peace in the world, men & nations must embrace the nonviolent assertion that ends and means must cohere.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love is creative, understanding goodwill for all men. It is the refusal to defeat any individual.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
My soul is too glad and too great to be at heart the enemy of any man
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The ultimate solution to the race problem lies in the willingness of men to obey the unenforceable.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I just can't see myself with a man on the ropes and just to prove how bad I am - and I see in his eyes, his head, he's hopeless - and I'm just deliberately hitting. I don't do that.
- Muhammad Ali
The absence of sentimentalism in Christ's relations with men is what makes His tenderness so exquisitely touching.
- Phillips Brooks
He who injures one man threatens many.
- Publilius Syrus
Every prison that men build Is built with bricks of shame, And bound with bars lest Christ should see How men their brothers maim.
- Oscar Wilde
The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy. It is as real a loss that others should be low, as that we should be low; for we musthave a society.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If I have unjustly wrested a plank from a drowning man, I must restore it to him though I drown myself.
- Henry David Thoreau
Good religious men, with the love of men in their hearts, and the means to pay their toll in their pockets.
- Henry David Thoreau
I beseech you to correct one fault - severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.
- Henry Ward Beecher