Compassion Quote by Everett Dirksen

Compassion comes from the heart, not the government.

— Edward Britton

If compassion and mercy are not compatible with politics then something is the matter with politics.

— Gerald R. Ford

Compassion is no substitute for justice.

— Rush Limbaugh

Compassion doesn't have to be weak or enabling; it can also be quite bold.

— George Saunders

The law has no compassion. And justice is administered without compassion.

— Christopher Darden

Compassion is the radicalism of our time.

— Anonymous

Compassion is nothing one feels with the intellect alone. Compassion is particular; it is never general.

— Madeleine L'Engle

Compassion is an alternate perception

— Mary Caroline Richards

Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is…

— John Berger

A great mind is above insults, injustice, grief, and raillery, and would be invulnerable were it not open to compassion.

— Jean de la Bruyere

People confuse compassion with government being compassionate with other people's money versus people being compassionate with their own money.

— Michele Bachmann

Compassion can never coexist with judgement because judgement creates the distance, the distinction, which prevents us from really being with the other.

— Henri Nouwen