Quotes About Compassion

There are four things our ancestors need from us: acknowledgment, validation, understanding, and forgiveness.

He was a man who would never ask for sympathy. He was a man who sought only to do what was right. Such people appear in the world, every world, now and then, like a single refrain of some blessed song, a fragment caught on the spur of an otherwise raging cacophony. Imagine a world without such souls. Yes, it should have been harder to do.

It is an extraordinary act of courage,' said Tulas Shorn, 'to come to know a stranger's pain.

I warn you all, hatred is finding fertile soil within me. And in your compassion, in your every good intention, you nurture it.

Power is violence, its promise, its deed. Power cares nothing for reason, nothing for justice, nothing for compassion. It is, in fact, the singular abnegation of these things – once the cloak of deceits is stripped away, this one truth is revealed.

Justice without compassion was the destroyer of morality, a slayer blind to empathy.

That is all faith is, you know. Pity for our souls.

Compassion existed when and only when one could step outside oneself, to suddenly see the bars from inside the cage.

I believe in being diligent but also cut yourself some slack. It's okay in the grand scheme of life.

I can play really terrible human beings, and I seem to have a quality that people can, if not necessarily forgive me those sins, at least cut me some slack.

The saddest face I ever saw on Martin Luther King was at the funeral of the four little girls slain in Birmingham, Alabama.

In a perfect world, I don't think any man should slap anyone.

I've never scratched, or punched, or slapped anybody in my real life.

With me, everybody I meet always has a clean slate.

Enormous slaughter may have been acceptable in previous centuries. It simply isn't acceptable anymore.

The war effects me less than it ought. I can do no service to anybody by agitating for news or making dole over the slaughter.

I think if you're against cruelty and you look at what happens to animals in slaughterhouses and on factory farms, you have to be completely against eating meat.

Each year, billions of animals are subjected to cruelty on factory farms, feed lots, and slaughterhouses. The brutality that these animals endure would be grounds for felony cruelty charges if inflicted upon our cats and dogs.

I went to law school for one reason and one reason only. To slay giants for a price. And if the giant is big enough and the cause is important enough, I'll do it for free, especially when it involves helping those who cannot help themselves.

Even before I knew I was gay, I knew I didn't want to have a child. I knew I didn't want to have one. I never want to have to release it from me. Listen, I love babies. I love children. And I melt when I'm around them. I also love my freedom and I love that I can sleep at night.

Some people say that rough sleeping has always existed and always will - that there is nothing that can be done to stop it. That is simply not true.

I buy sleeping bags, food, gloves and warmers, and I just usually go out in Bath, which is where I'm from, and hand them out. I've done it on Christmas Eve, schedule allowing.

So often animals come into shelters where their owners have passed away. And they've been perfect pets for most of their lives. So there's an adult animal sitting in a cage that's completely trained, sleeps through the night, is past that puppy stage.

That's why the role that I have on 'Grey's Anatomy' is important to me, because it's a human being. He doesn't have to wear race on his sleeve; he doesn't even have to talk about it. We just lead by our actions.