Quotes About Compassion

We don't own them, and we don't have any claims on moral superiority. But after all we've done to them in the past we do have an obligation to shepherd them through to better times.' He

If it took a monster to do that, doesn't that mean we sometimes need monsters?' 'Maybe we do. But that doesn't mean we should forgive them for what they are, even for an instant.

Nonetheless, we offer our forgiveness. What is the point in being a superior civilisation if you can't do that once in a while?

I feel like I ask my fans to love themselves a lot, and and I do want people to love themselves. That comes from personal experience.

Even in my personal life, I can't bear to have bad feelings.

While we have to take personal responsibility for our actions, I have a great deal of empathy for people who are unconsciously racially biased, and indeed count myself among their number.

When you meet chimps you meet individual personalities. When a baby chimp looks at you it's just like a human baby. We have a responsibility to them.

If you love animals and you care for them... don't wear them, because they have feelings and personalities just like humans do.

A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.

Happiness is no respecter of persons.

To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons laboring under ill-health.

Don't hit people; don't let it get you too angry; remember that everything you do can and will be used against you. And take a breath and have some perspective.

Volunteering is a great way to look outside your own problems. Giving back to makes you happier by both giving you a sense of purpose and helping to put your problems in perspective.

My mother always taught me to think about things from other people's perspectives and think about where they're coming from.

I don't know how many times I can sit there and talk about my character or my life. It's interesting to talk about experiences in the context of something you're doing for somebody else, and particularly if you can persuade others to join you in your support.

Sometimes people give to charity because they have been persuaded to believe in a cause, sometimes just to get rid of you and sometimes because they are befuddled and confused.

The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion.

I love all our Father's children of every color, creed, and political persuasion.

I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don't betray each other.

I have always been an animal lover and I had pet dogs at home. On the day of Diwali, they would be so disturbed and scared that they would hide in a corner and would not come out. I had decided then that I would stop buying crackers on Diwali.

Adopting a pet is like taking the responsibility of a baby.

People buy a cat and think, 'Oh that's a beautiful collar. I'll put that on,' but that doesn't make them a responsible pet owner.

I was born with a love of animals, the same way I was born with brown hair. When I was a little girl in Rome, I always had pets, which I adored.