Pity is extolled as the virtue of prostitutes.
We must be cruel as well as compassionate: let us guard against becoming poorer than nature is!
If all alms were given only from pity, all beggars would have starved long ago.
Christianity is called the religion of pity.
Nothing is more pathological in our pathological modernity than this disease of Christian pity.
Pity aims just as little at the pleasure of others as malice at the pain of others Per-Se.
Where do your greatest dangers lie?--In pity.
We feign pity when we want to demonstrate our ascendancy over feelings of hostility: but usually in vain. Whenever we notice this,there is an accompanying surge in those hostile sensations.
What is more harmful than any vice? Practical sympathy and pity for all the failures and all the weak : Christianity.
Pity makes suffering contagious.