Quotes About Compassion

Life is cruel enough without unnecessary brutality. Fight it.

Wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart.

I knew that part of friendship consisted in accepting a friend's shortcomings, which sometimes included his parents.

sonder the awareness that everyone has a story.

Empathy for the plight of the Goddess may be essential in seeing how to face our own plight on Earth.

Do definite good; first of all to yourself, then to definite persons.

As Confucius says, under some circumstances murder can be forgiven; but unreasonableness never is.

People are basically good.

My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak.

That it was sparing young people struck me as an enormous blessing, for there is nothing more devastating than the death of children.

Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go and get shot or something.

A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world: everyone you meet is your mirror. —Ken Keyes, Jr.

It is a hard fact that cruel actions differ from kind ones, and hence that we can learn, as in fact we all do, to distinguish them fairly well in practice, and to use the words 'cruel' and 'kind' with fairly clear descriptive meanings; but is it an equally hard fact that actions which are cruel in such a descriptive sense are to be condemned?

Sometimes, in that darkness, there is a single act of love, some selfless gesture, an aspiration, and we see that it's not been all waste, all hopeless, and we can ... well ... go on.

I have a lot of faith in people.

For it will be very difficult to persuade men of sense that he who with dry eyes and satisfaction of mind can deliver his brother to the executioner to be burnt alive, does sincerely and heartily concern himself to save that brother from the flames of hell in the world to come.

Now, I appeal to the consciences of those who persecute, wound, torture, and kill other men on the excuse of 'religion', whether they do this in a spirit of friendship and kindness.

God hath woven into the principles of human nature such a tenderness for their off-spring, that there is little fear that parents should use their power with too much rigour;

since it would always be a sin, in any man of estate, to let his brother perish for want of affording him relief out of his plenty.

Do not be afraid of showing your affection. Be warm and tender, thoughtful and affectionate. Men are more helped by sympathy, than by service; love is more than money, and a kind word will give more pleasure than a present.

What's true of all the evils in the world is true of plague as well. It helps men to rise above themselves.

He believed that our humanity rests upon our ability to unite across different worlds of experience.

Meyer is a transcendent warmth, the listening ear of a total understanding and forgiveness, a humble wisdom.

Maturity begins to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself.