~ I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of wat ~
~ If you can’t find it in your own heart to be compassionate look in someone else's before giving up on love altogether. ~
~ I would rather feel compassion than know the meaning of it. ~
~ A woman should always challenge our respect, and never move our compassion. ~
~ Compassion is not a popular virtue ~
~ Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food ~
~ Compassion is contempt with a human face ~
~ Compassion is the basis of morality. ~
~ The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty. ~
~ If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men ~
~ I have observed that religious practice is not a precondition either of ethical conduct or of happiness itself. I have also suggested that, whether a person practices religion or not, the spiritual qualities of love and compassion, patience, tolerance, forgiveness, humility and so on are indispensable ~
~ No-one knows what the soul is. But what we do know is, the soul is where God works compassion ~