Compassion is contempt with a human face.
John McCarthy

Compassion is no substitute for justice.
Rush Limbaugh

Compassion is not a popular virtue.
Karen Armstrong

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

Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.
Frederick Buechner

Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.
Eric Hoffer

Compassion is the basis of morality.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
Henry Ward Beecher

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.
Albert Schweitzer

Competition is such a virtue, and everybody's so busy competing, they have no time for compassion.
Major Owens

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

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

Few things are so deadly as a misguided sense of compassion.
Charles Colson

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

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?
Bell Hooks

Happiness and peace will come to earth only as the light of love and human compassion enter the souls of men.
David O. McKay

Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike; each has their suffering. Some suffer too much, others too little.
Buddha

However, without considering this connection, there is no doubt but that more good than evil, more delight than sorrow, arises from compassion itself; there being so many things which balance the sorrow of it.
Joseph Butler

Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy.
Giovanni Boccaccio

I admire the fact that the central core of Buddhist teaching involves mindfulness and loving kindness and compassion.
Ron Reagan