Charles James Quotes

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

How you treat the helpless is the real test of morality. Lots of people are flunking that test big time.

I truly believe that compassion provides the basis of human survival.

So the smart brain must be balanced with a warm heart, a good heart -a sense of responsibility, of concern for the well-being of others.

Compassion refers to the arising in the heart of the desire to relieve the suffering of all beings.

If you follow your heart, if you listen to your gut, and if you extend your hand to help another, not for any agenda, but for the sake of humanity, you are going to find the truth.

Kindness isn't just a virtue, its a necessity.

Compassion is the chief law of human existence.

Mama, humanity is my business.

The measure of civilized behavior is compassion.

The real index of civilization is when people are kinder than they need to be.

We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.

One of the problems with being relatively conscious and human, is that you want to help everybody.

If we can cultivate a concern for others, keeping in mind the oneness of humanity, we can build a more compassionate world.

No man can write who is not first a humanitarian

Intellect without humanity is not good enough...what the world is suffering from at the present time is not so much an overabundance of intellect as an insufficiency of humanity.

What one thing does the world need most today-apart, that is, from the all-inclusive thing we call righteousness? Aren't you inclined to agree that what this old world needs is just the art of being kind? Every time I visit a factory or any other large business concern, I find myself trying to diagnose whether the atmosphere is one of kindliness or the reverse. And somehow, if there is palpably lacking that spirit of kindness, the owners ... have fallen short of achieving 24-carat success no matter how imposing the financial balance sheet may be.

As human beings we each have a responsibility to care for humanity. Expressing concern for others brings inner strength and deep satisfaction. As social animals, human beings need friendship, but friendship doesn't come from wealth and power, but from showing compassion and concern for others.

The measure of man's humanity is the extent and intensity of his love for mankind.

Awaken your heart to kindness and mercy for the people and love and tenderness for them. Never, never act with them like a predatory beast which seeks to be satiated by devouring them, for the people fall into two categories: they are either your brethren in faith or your kindred in creation.

It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.

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

We're a compassionate nation.

As a society, we come up lacking in many of the marks of compassion and wisdom by which we measure ourselves as civilized.

We are a compassionate society.