Quotes About Compassion

Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.

Poetry has a crucial role to play in our lives, society, and the world. It helps us slow down, hear clearly, see deeply, and envision what matters most in our lives."—Arthur Sze

When tempted to be disgusted at the dullness of another, or to be revenged on one who has wronged you, call to remembrance God's infinite patience and longsuffering with yourself.

God bears long with the wicked notwithstanding the multitude of their sin, and shall we desire to be revenged because of a single injury?

Both of these men had the sentence of death in themselves, and both prayed earnestly unto the Lord for a reprieve: the one wrote: "The Lord would not hear me," and died; but to the other it was said, "I have heard thy prayer", and his life was spared. What an illustration and exemplification of the truth expressed in Romans 9:15!—"For He saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.

One recommendation I venture to make, Mr. Bashforth. If ever you again approach an ugly woman in this way, bear in mind that even ugly women, conscious as they may be of their defects, have their dreams.

Sometimes conceiving an affection for an animal is easier than for a human.

En un mundo donde el horror se vende como arte, donde el arte nace ya con la pretensión de ser fotografiado, donde convivir con las imágenes del sufrimiento no tiene relación con la conciencia ni con la compasión, las fotos de guerra no sirven para nada.

In affairs of the heart, Princess," César used to say, "one should offer neither advice nor solutions ... just a clean hanky when it seems appropriate.

And only when he'd finished and fallen silent did the vague smile return to his lips, in apparent gentle mockery of himself, of the man he had just described and for whom, deep down, he felt neither compassion nor disdain, only a kind of disillusioned, sympathetic solidarity.

There are times when I am ashamed to be a man.

nothing is more human than cruelty

Es asombroso que los seres humanos, que viven tan poco tiempo, se esfuercen en causarse mutuamente tantos dolores»... Lo escribió Somerset Maugham.

El ser humano es bestia torpe a la que no mueven los buenos sentimientos, sino el látigo. Para

en un mundo injusto como el que le ha tocado conocer, sólo hay dos maneras posibles de soportar la injusticia, sea divina o humana: resignándose a sufrirla, o aliándose con ella.

Todas lo están, me parece... En cuanto al silencio, sospecho que todo el tiempo nos juzgan, y por eso callan. —¿Silencio de jueces? —se yergue un poco don Hermógenes, interesado—. Vaya... Eso parece digno de pensarse. —Aunque la mayor parte de sus veredictos, mucho me temo, oscilan entre la compasión y el desprecio.

Traer hijos a este mundo injusto, de esclavos, es sumar a todo una injusticia más.

Mataria por muito poucas coisas, mas mataria quem fizesse mal a um cão. Sem qualquer remorso, com as minhas próprias mãos. -- Entrevista ao Expresso, publicada em 29/01/2021 na Edição nº 2518 da Revista

El heroísmo ajeno siempre conmueve una barbaridad.

This world is what we have made of it. If it is ruthless today it is because we have made it ruthless by our attitudes. If we change ourselves we can change the world, and changing ourselves begins with changing our language and methods of communication

Nonviolence is not just a state of being where violence is absent or invisible. It is a conscious, active effort not to harm anyone morally, spiritually, physically, mentally, economically, socially, or in any other way.

Nothing in life is as important as people who love us or people whom we love.

Suffering is real. To urge anything that dismisses it as 'unreal' is to mock the pain of another.

This was the trouble with families. Like invidious doctors, they knew just where it hurt.