Quotes About Compassion

There is not racial or ethnic domination of hopelessness. It's everywhere.

Becoming a reader grows our horizons, our appetite for the good, the true and the beautiful, and our empathy.

AIDS is a horrible disease, and the people who catch it deserve compassion.

My mom can't defend herself to the world. She is such an amazing woman, with such an open heart. It's a real hard line, and I crossed it. I took everyone's life story and assumed it would be a great thing to put on screen. I was being selfish and I feel so horrible about it. I feel so guilty.

I'm not this horrible, evil person.

I'm never horrible to anybody. My problem, and you can ask any of my friends, is that I'm too nice to everybody.

To contemplate war is to think about the most horrible of human experiences.

Even one death is horrible.

People don't necessarily do evil deeds because they want to; people happen to do something with horrible consequences even if they meant to be kind.

There's something about trying to figure out why someone is doing something that on the outside is horrible - what drives them to do that? What could drive any human being to that kind of behaviour?

When someone is dying, there is nothing you really can do, it's a horrible situation, and... you just have to get through it.

I could never know someone who could hurt someone else and not feel like a horrible person.

You'd assume I was being bullied a tonne at school and it was horrible, but in reality, I really was getting bullied everywhere else.

I'm not somebody that just wants to hold up a white flag and say, 'Let's all just get along.' I think people that do horrible things should be held accountable.

It seems entirely possible to me that horrible things can be going on without us becoming horrible people.

People do horrible things.

I think, if you were being cruel to animals, then the thought of eating them would be horrific.

For every horrific event, something beautiful happens.

We must not allow the horrific actions of madmen to cut us off from our humanity.

Non-fictionalised accounts of horrific accidents, bereavement, and the outrages of officialdom tend to move us deeply.

I've seen a lot of horror, but I'm not a horror guy.

There are some people who shouldn't watch horror films, and I'm all right with that.

In every generation, there are horrors that define an age and events that scar the global conscience.

It's my goal to show the world that Americans know how to help Americans without expecting the government to come riding in on a white horse and save the day.