Compassion Quotes

Compassion Quotes

Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding.
~Louis Gerstner

Compassion is the basis of morality.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
~ Dalai Lama

Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.
~ Hubert H. Humphrey

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
~Thomas Jefferson

Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves.
~Mason Cooley

Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.
~Simone Weil

Compassion is contempt with a human face.
~ John McCarthy

Compassion is the basis of morality.
~Arnold Schopenhauer

Compassion for the friend should conceal itself under a hard shell.
~Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

You know, there’s a lot of talk in this country about the federal deficit. But I think we should talk more about our empathy deficit — the ability to put ourselves in someone else’s shoes; to see the world through the eyes of those who are different from us — the child who’s hungry, the steelworker who’s been laid-off, the family who lost the entire life they built together when the storm came to town. When you think like this — when you choose to broaden your ambit of concern and empathize with the plight of others, whether they are close friends or distant strangers — it becomes harder not to act; harder not to help.
~Barack Obama (Updated in Mar 2009)