Quotes About Compassion

You can condemn and criticize religion... all those things are fine, but you can't mock and disrespect people.

I honor religion except when it gets into shedding blood.

The latest horror to hit the U.S. looks to have been caused by people of Middle Eastern origin, bearing Muslim names. Again, shame. This fuels more hatred for a religion and a people who have nothing to do with these events.

I love my religion, I love everything about it, but at the same time, I love my career, and I want to do it with the same love and compassion.

The Muslim Prophet Mohammed was a big believer in charity and firmly established helping those in need as a basis of the religion.

Being good or evil has nothing to do with religion.

We should respect all religions and just believe in peace, kindness and harmony.

I honor the sanctity of all religions - I'm not here to put them down. But the only religion that I personally embrace is the religion of kindness.

I have many friends of other religions, and I am satisfied that they are very conscientious, good people who are trying to do good. I appreciate that.

As an atheist, I think there are lots of things religions get up to which are of value to non-believers - and one of those things is trying to be a bit better than we normally manage to be.

I want the Congress to become an instrument for dialogue among the Indian people - all of us, from all corners of our great country, all religions, all ethnicities, all ages, genders and people - and for our dialogue to always be led by love and affection.

Of all the religions, I am most partial to Buddhism.

I'm not Buddhist, but I am drawn to it because it seems the most beneficial of organised religions and the most compassionate.

Religions based on the principle of service and a focus on the less fortunate help a society deal with want.

I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.

I don't care if you are religious or not and I think the message is that at the end of the day, everybody has to mature and everybody has to heal and mend their own injuries, emotional injuries, on their own pace.

Frankly, I'm not religious, but I believe in the cause of humanity - doing good work.

Life's too short and too complicated for people behind desks, people behind masks to be ruining other people's lives, initiating force against other people's lives on the basis of their income, their color, their class, their religious beliefs, whatever.

Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity.

So laying people off is not something I do lightly, it's not something I relish.

Although we are physically laid to rest, we meet again and again to make amends. If I hurt someone in this life, I'll have to relive it to make amends. It helps you realize that by hurting someone, you are actually hurting yourself.

Most people who rely on food banks are there through no fault of their own.

Acting is probably the only profession where you are relying only on empathy.

Doping has to be fought, cheats must be unmasked, abuse should be punished but all this should remain human.