Johann Kaspar Lavater Quotes

Compassion is contempt with a human face.

As human beings we're so cynical, so uncompassionate.

Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.

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

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

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

It is sometimes difficult to view compassion and loving kindness as the strengths they are.

Some people seem to see compassion as being mushy.

I think one of the best words in the English language is 'compassion.' I think it holds everything. It holds love, it holds care... and if everybody just did something. We all make a difference.

I am a little bit of a softie, yes. Actually I don't think it's softness, I think it's kindness.

Compassion is not a popular virtue.

If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

People aren't inherently sympathetic.

We've got to be kind.

Regrettably, the media are seemingly incapable of mentioning the words 'compassion' and 'Trump' in the same sentence.

Everybody has a heart. Except some people.

Why does God endow us with compassion?

I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.

The American people have not become heartless.

Compassion may be defined as the capacity to be attentive to the experience of others, to wish the best for others, and to sense what will truly serve others.

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

Love of our neighbour, then, has just the same respect to, is no more distant from, self-love, than hatred of our neighbour, or than love or hatred of anything else.

I think compassion is an important quality in people in general.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

To put yourself in another's place requires real imagination, but by doing so each Girl Scout will be able to love among others happily.