Hubert Humphrey Quotes

The American people have not become heartless.

We're a compassionate nation.

It really shocks me when I encounter people who think kindness doesn't matter. Because I think it's pretty much the only thing that matters.

To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

It is selfish to concern oneself with tragedies.

I have empathy; I am humane. I understand human misery.

In democratic ages men rarely sacrifice themselves for another, but they show a general compassion for all the human race. One never sees them inflict pointless suffering, and they are glad to relieve the sorrows of others when they can do so without much trouble to themselves. They are not disinterested, but they are gentle.

Compassion is the basis of all morality.

We are a compassionate society.

Fraternity and compassion are written into nature's DNA.

Humanity, perhaps, that quality of benevolence that humans have, without irony, named after themselves.

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

I love mankind; it's people I can't stand.

A love for humanity came over me, and watered and fertilised the fields of my inner world which had been lying fallow, and this love of humanity vented itself in a vast compassion.

Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.

A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.

One of the things I've never been accused of is not caring about people.

The problem with compassion is that it is not photogenic.

Rahul Gandhi is very idealistic and a very decent human being. He has real concerns for the downtrodden.

Some people seem to see compassion as being mushy.

There is no verb for compassion, but you have an adverb for compassion. That's interesting to me. You act compassionately. But then, how to act compassionately if you don't have compassion? That is where you fake. You fake it and make it. This is the mantra of the United States of America.

I'd like to think I'm a caring human being.

Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.

We are not by nature cruel.