The final causes, then, of compassion are to prevent and to relieve misery.
Joseph Butler

The genuine priest always feels something higher than compassion.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

The gift that has been given to me says much about our capacity for great compassion and generosity, and I hope it sends an inspiring message to others about the importance of organ donation.
Steven Cojocaru

The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.
Norman Cousins

The law has no compassion. And justice is administered without compassion.
Christopher Darden

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

The Minnesota spirit of compassion and help for people in need has moved countless Minnesotans to step forward to provide relief for the survivors of Hurricane Katrina.
Jim Ramstad

The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.
Albert Schweitzer

The super power that I would choose would be compassion. Because that's what I think it takes to make it through life-an understanding, a give and take. It saves an awful lot of resentment.
Craig T. Nelson

The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.
Anton Chekhov

The war in Iraq has as much to do with terrorism as the administration has to do with compassion.
Julian Bond

The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another.
Thomas Merton

The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.
Samuel Johnson

There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos.
Milan Kundera

There's nothing wrong with the free-enterprise system. But it has to have some compassion.
Jim McDermott

These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness.
Anthony de Mello

They weren't impatient for the boys to turn into cartoons again. They awarded sympathy, gave compassion. Because deep down they had found parts of themselves in the characters. You said it George.
Audrey Meadows

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

Today, our actions must be motivated only by our intense desire to achieve a just and lasting peace. The compassion and charity of the American people should be reflected in this legislation, though sadly, they are silenced.
Nick Rahall

Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.
Albert Schweitzer