Quotes About Compassion

the best that can be done is to love for the sake of it, and to keep sorrow company.

If Christianity is anything, it's a refusal to see human behavior as ruled by the balance sheet. We're not supposed to see the things we do as adding up into piles of good and evil we can subtract from each according to some kind of calculus to tell us how, on balance, we're doing.

Yet, if the world were bettered by My death or story left untold, I would condemn myself to die For misdemeanours manifold: I bring no harm to young or old Alive or dead, in either case: A man so needy never rolled A mountain from its resting place.

Redd stared at the bald head bent down before her. How refreshing Vollrath's sacrifice was. He didn't beg for his life. He didn't embarrasss himself with groveling or sniveling, or appeals to her nomexistent mercy. Thinking that he might still be helpful in finding her Looking Glass Maze, she said, I'm feeling generous today. You get to live.

You see, I'm not above helping an unfortunate soul find new purpose in life…so long as it benefits me

No matter how kind or well-meaning you are, someone will always resent you.

Being a Milliner's about standing up for what's right, for those who can't stand up for themselves.

I want to put into your heads that the world is not all evil. Yes, we do have nightmares, but we also have dreams. We do have villainy, but we also have great compassion among ourselves. That's all I'm here for, really, to try to tell you that there's good in the world. And that it's wonderful.

What is important for a leader is that which makes him a leader. It is the needs of his people.

It occurred to her that mercy was the ability to stop, if only for a moment. There was no mercy where there could be no stopping.

O you who know what we suffer here, do not forget us in your prayers.

Revenge is for children and the emotionally retarded.

When strangers meet, great allowances should be made for differences in custom and training.

the drowning man who climbs on your shoulders to save himself is understandable—except when you see it happen in the drawing room.

Isn't it odd how we misunderstand the hidden unity of kindness and cruelty?" Jessica

Mercy is a chimera.

She's the One all right," she muttered. "Poor thing.

Forgive you?" Leto's voice was full of sweet reason. "Of course I forgive you. That is your God's function. Your crime is forgiven. However, your stupidity requires a response.

If we cannot adjust our differences peaceably, then we are less than human

The gift is the blessing of the giver.

To save one from a mistake is a gift of paradise

This Duke was concerned more over the men than he was over the spice. He risked his own life and that of his son to save the men. He passed off the loss of a spice crawler with a gesture. The threat to men's lives had him in a rage. A leader such as that would command fanatic loyalty. He would be difficult to defeat. Against his own will and all previous judgments, Kynes admitted to himself: I like this Duke.

Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.

I choose to ally myself against any force which brings humiliation upon humankind.