Quotes About Compassion

One thing you will probably remember well is anytime you forgive and forget.

Even a witch wants sympathy.

He's harmless, poor thing. That's what everyone said. It was true, but who cares? Lots of people are harmless, but that doesn't mean I have to like them.

Poor Petey. I'd like to say I could almost feel a tender spot for poor Petey, but the truth is I'd rather feel at the tender spot on his head and give it a poke.

Should I ever again sink into illness, I'm sure I'll remember Eldric. I'll remember he cared for me. I'll remember that someone had at least taken the time to touch my face.

People think me a sort of Florence Nightingale, but I have no heroic qualities. I simply don't feel very much.

How true, lamentably true. I'm sorry, Father. I do not love my neighbor as myself.

If you ask anyone, what is morality based on? These are the two factors that always come out: One is reciprocity, … a sense of fairness, and the other one is empathy and compassion.

Robin Hood had it right.Humanity's deepest wish is to spread the wealth.

We are born with impulses that draw us to others and that later in life make us care about them.

Ironically, torture requires empathy, too, in the sense that one cannot deliberately inflict pain without realizing what is painful.

Empathic reactions are always stronger the more we have in common with the other and the closer we feel to them.20

La auténtica empatía humana no se centra en uno mismo, sino que se orienta en el otro.

We humans will be diminished if we cannot even protect the animals closest to us, who share almost all of our genes, and who differ from us only by degree.

True empathy is not self-focused but other-oriented. Instead of making humanity the measure of all things, we need to evaluate other species by what they are. In doing so, I am sure we will discover many magic wells, including some as yet beyond our imagination.

One aspect we might focus on during this moratorium is an alternative to overly cerebral approaches.

True empathy is not self-focused but other-oriented. Instead of making humanity the measure of all things, we need to evaluate other species by what they are.

Superiority? Inferiority? Why not simply try to touch the other, feel the other, discover each other?

We believe that an individual must endeavor to assume the universalism inherent in the human condition.

Be kind and generous to your fellows, but hard and relentless with yourself.

There is no act of love toward one's neighbor that falls into the void. Just because the act was realized blindly, it must appear somewhere as effect. Somewhere,

La humanidad va a pasar un mal rato el día del juicio final, cuando tenga que rendir cuentas de lo que ha estado haciendo, sobre todo a partir del siglo XX, con los animales para carne, particularmente con los terneros, los cerdos y los pollos, las prinicipales víctimas de la ganadería intensiva.

La solidaridad, o es total o no existe. Es un sentimiento que no sabe de ahorro.

A nuestra especie no le queda más remedio que cambiar de actitud: efectivamente, como ya lo decía San Francisco de Asís, los animales son hermanos nuestros; vamos a tener que darles otro trato. Nada podrá detener esa revolución de mentalidad que ya está en marcha.