Quotes About Compassion

Nearly all the school subjects lay great stress on information. But literature makes its appeal to the heart as well as the intellect. Geography

According to Dio, he promised not to "take any cruel action simply because I have conquered

Clemency was to be "the new style of conquest.

That said, he did not want Antony destroyed

People naturally prefer you to lie to them rather than refuse them your help," he writes.

His biographer, Cornelius Nepos, a younger contemporary whom he knew personally, wrote that Atticus "behaved so as to seem at one with the poorest and on a level with the powerful.

Evil is not something instilled in a few unlucky persons by a malicious Lucifer. If we are to understand "evil" at all, we must think of it as a word—an emotional word—we use to describe actions performed by other humans that we experience as breathtakingly horrible, shocking, and, often enough, nauseating.

She tried to smile sympathetically, but with her face it wasn't quite possible.

For all men are equal at the moment of death and who are we to judge them when a much greater judge awaits?

You're trying to tell me that everything you've done is for a good cause. You think that all this killing is worth it because of the results. I'm not sure I agree. Lots of people work for charity; lots of people want to change the world. But they don't have to behave like you.

Let me ask you a question, Alex. What do you think is the greatest evil on this planet today?" "Is that including or not including you?" Alex asked.

know you're only doing your job, Mr Hawthorne, and you don't really care how you get your results. I was there when you were giving your talk and it struck me then that you have absolutely no heart at all. You don't believe in the law.

It was the reference to Down's syndrome that most upset him. Mary described it as an 'awful sickness'. It wasn't. It was a condition, not an illness. What sort of woman could see it as a threat to her own bloodline? Had she really pulled up the drawbridge on her son's marriage simply to protect future grandchildren from

As a rule, I don't go to funerals. I find them too horrible and upsetting and the older I get, of course, the more invitations I receive. As a favour to my friends, I'll make sure that none of them are told the date of mine.

There are a lot of people who don't like a lot of people but they don't go around the place murdering them.

We need to tolerate intolerance

His chest was heaving. He was on the edge of tears. "You've never tried to see things my way. You don't have any understanding what it's like being me.

That's what's wrong with this country. You've got food banks in the north and down here in Hampstead there are people who don't think twice about spending a fortune on a fucking bottle of wine. It doesn't make sense.

She had a brittle quality, as if she needed charity herself, but knew that she would never get it. The tragedy that had changed her life was still with her.

One second behind the wheel of a car she shouldn't have been driving and she killed my child and took everything away from me. I'm a Christian. I go to church. I've tried to forgive her. But I'd be lying to you if I said that I wasn't glad when I heard someone had murdered her. It may be a sin and it may be wrong of me

Smile, it is the key that fits the lock of everyone's heart

Transcend political correctness and strive for human righteousness.

Have a strong mind and a soft heart.

We will not stop fighting until every single black life is provided the type of love and support we so desperately deserve.