Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

Compassion is contempt with a human face.

Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.

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.

Pity is treason

Why does God endow us with compassion?

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

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.

Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy.

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

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

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.

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.

Compassion is not a popular virtue.

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

If you think you're gonna have pity on me or take it easy on me, then I'm gonna have to help you off your back.

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

What is called generosity is really compassion. In the Shin'ei it is written "Seen from the eye of compassion, there is noone to be disliked. One who has sinned is to be pitied all the more." There is no limit to the breadth and depth of ones heart. There is room enough for all. That we still worship the sages of the three ancient kingdoms is because their compassion reaches us yet today.

Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

The Southerner is usually tolerant of those weaknesses that proceed from innocence.

I don't wish ill will on anybody.

I live by the code 'Kill them with kindness, blood everywhere;' for me, it's always about being the nicest kind of guy.

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

Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.