Compassion Quotes

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

For me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tender spot where, with luck, it can lose its anger and become compassion again.
- Paula Cole

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.
- St. Francis

The dew of compassion is a tear.
- Lord Byron

Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.
- George W. Bush

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
- Erma Bombeck

Let your secret sympathies and your compassion be always with the under dog in the fight - this is magnanimity; but bet on the other one - this is business.
- Mark Twain

The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion constitutionality is no match with compassion.
- Everett Dirksen

I should have no compassion on these witches, I should burn them all.
- Martin Luther