Quotes About Compassion

Ne nevere mo ne lakked hire pite; Tendre-herted, slydynge of corage; But trewely, I kan nat telle hire age.

Con qué rapidez invade la piedad los corazones nobles!

And, in his noble heart, he pondered a moment and then soft unto himself he said, "Fie upon a Lord that will show no mercy, but will be as a lion, in word and in deed, both to those who are remorseful and afeared, as well as to the haughty unrepentant man, and who will judge the guilty and the innocent alike. That Lord has little of discernment, who, in such a case, knows of no distinction, but weighs arrogance and humility upon an equal scale.

La compasión surge rápidamente de los nobles corazones que sienten los agudos aguijonazos que sufren otros como en su propia carne;

Wir alle sind Narren, es hat keiner das Recht, einem andern seine eigentümliche Narrheit aufzudringen. - Jeder muss in seiner Art genießen können, jedoch so, dass keiner auf Unkosten eines andern genießen oder ihn in seinem eigentümlichen Genuss stören darf.

Ich hab es satt; wozu sollen wir Menschen miteinander kämpfen? Wir sollten uns nebeneinandersetzen und Ruhe haben. Es wurde ein Fehler gemacht, wie wir geschaffen wurden; es fehlt uns etwas, ich habe keinen Namen dafür - aber wir werden es einander nicht aus den Eingeweiden herauswühlen, was sollen wir uns drum die Leiber aufbrechen?

Die Unterdrücker der Menschheit bestrafen, ist Gnade; ihnen verzeihen, ist Barbarei.

Jacques is the kind of guy, if his house was burning in the night, most people in the Budayeen would write him a postcard and drop it in the mail to warn him.

I like flowers, I also like children, but I do not chop their heads off and keep them in bowls of water around the house.

Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals.

While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth?

A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.

HIGGINS. The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if were in Heaven, where there are no third-class carriages, and one soul is as good as another.

The man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

If you begin by sacrificing yourself to those you love, you will end by hating those to whom you have sacrificed yourself.

The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them. That's the essence of inhumanity.

El hombre es civilizado en la medida que comprende a un gato.

Wicked people means people who have no love: therefore, they have no shame. They have the power to ask love because the don't need it: they have the power to offer it because they have none to give.

Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research.

No, really: I can't fight, I never could. I can't bring myself to dislike anyone enough.

When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them. But when they are away, we console ourselves for their absence by dwelling on their vices.

I have to live for others and not for myself: thats middle class morality.

I don't want to punish anybody, but there are an extraordinary number of people who I might want to kill.