pity Quotes
Daily selection of quotes about pity.
“Cruelty is softened by fear, not pity.”
- Mason Cooley
“All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.”
- Sallust
“Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.”
- Oliver Goldsmith
“Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.”
- Bertrand Russell
“All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.”
- Sallust
“To pity distress is but human to relieve it is Godlike.”
- Horace Mann
“Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.”
- William Blake
“Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.”
- Bertrand Russell
“Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.”
- Bertrand Russell
“Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.”
- Nelson Mandela