Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Quotes

I don't think it's an incredibly radical premise to try and have sympathy for someone who has made a mistake.

Perchance that I might learn what pity is, That I might laugh at erring men no more.

Compassion is contempt with a human face.

It is easy to condemn, it is better to pity.

The truth doesn't have to do with cruelty, the truth has to do with mercy.

So many of the high ranking about me have discarded mercy as a weakness.

You pity the fool because you don't want to beat up a fool! You know, pity is between sorry and mercy. See, if you pity him, you know, you won't have to beat him up. So that's why I say fools, you gotta give another chance because they don't know no better. That's why I pity them!

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.

Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.

Let no one underestimate the need of pity. We live in a stony universe whose hard, brilliant forces rage fiercely.

The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

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

Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.

Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy.

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

Make no judgements where you have no compassion.

We all, I think, believe in compassion. If you look at all the world religions, all the main world religions, you'll find within them some teaching concerning compassion.

Compassion has enemies, and those enemies are things like pity, moral outrage, fear.

I do take pity on some of the people that have to work with me.

When people realize that they have been forgiven of everything, it becomes a little bit easier for them to forgive others.

Be assured that if you knew all, you would pardon all.

We need to show mercy. I mean, because as much mercy as you show people, that's the mercy you're going to be receiving.

There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which neither our love nor our courage can bridge.

I know for certain of only one commandment, one obligation, that God imposes upon us, and that is to be compassionate toward other human beings.

There are some men whose enemies are to be pitied much, and their friends more.