Quotes About Compassion

Large countries'] patriotism is different: they are buoyed by their glory, their importance, their universal mission. The Czechs loved their country not because it was glorious but because it was unknown; not because it was big but because it was small and in constant danger. Their patriotism was an enormous compassion for their country.

Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.

And Jakub realized that this child had done no harm, that he was not guilty of anything, and yet had been born with bad eyes and would have them forever. And he reflected further that what he had held against others was something given, something they came into the world with and carried with them like a heavy wire fence. He reflected that he had no privileged right to high-mindedness and that the highest degree of high-mindedness is to love people even though they are murderers.

not even one's own pain weigh so heavy as the pain one feels with someone , for someone

But deep down she said to herself, Franz may be strong, but his strength is directed outward; when it comes to the people he lives with, the people he loves, he's weak. Franz's weakness is called goodness.

to have compassion (co-feeling) means not only to be able to live with other's misfortune but also to feel with him any emotion -joy , anxiety, happiness, pain

I am obedient. I can never say no to those weaker than myself. And because I am six feet two and can lift a two-hundred-pound sack with one hand, in all my life I have yet to find anyone I can resist.

all languages that derive from Latin form the word compassion by combining the prefix meaning with (com-) and the root meaning suffering

Kitsch is the translation of the stupidity of received ideas into the language of beauty and feeling. It moves us to tears of compassion for ourselves, for the banality of what we think and feel.

he tried to remind himself , don't think about her! don't think about her! he said to himself, i am sick with compassion

La verdadera prueba de la moralidad de la humanidad, la más honda (situada a tal profundidad que escapa a nuestra percepción), radica en su relación con aquellos que están a su merced: los animales

Stvarna dobrota ?ovjeka može se pokazati u svoj svojoj ?isto?i i slobodi samo u odnosu prema nekome tko ne posjeduje nikakvu mo?. Pravi ispit ljudskog morala, onaj osnovni (iskren tako duboko da izmi?e našem pogledu) jest u odnosu ?ovjeka prema onima koji su mu prepušteni na milost i nemilost - prema životinjama. A baš je tu došlo do fundamentalnog debakla ?ovjeka, u toj mjeri elementarnog da su iz njega proizašli svi ostali.

No hay nada más pesado que la compasión. Ni siquiera el propio dolor es tan pesado como el dolor sentido con alguien, por alguien, para alguien, multiplicado por la imaginación, prolongado en mil ecos.

Let the planet be convulsed with exploding bombs, the country ravished daily by new hordes, all his neighbors taken out and shot - he could accept it all more easily than he dared to admit. But the grief implicit in Tereza's dream was something he could not endure.

Any schoolboy can do experiments in the physics laboratory to test various scientific hypotheses. But man, because he has only one life to live, cannot conduct experiments to test whether to follow his passion(compassion) or not.

punishing people who don't know what they've done is barbaric forgive them for know not what they do

Ma è proprio il debole che deve saper essere forte e andar via, quando il forte è troppo debole per poter fare del male al debole.

To love someone out of compassion means not really to love.

Porque vivir en un mundo donde no se le perdona nada a nadie, donde nadie puede redimirse, es lo mismo que vivir en el infierno.

His kindness tore at her heartstrings...

Il est beaucoup plus important de déterrer une corneille enterrée vivante que d'envoyer une pétition à un président.

in languages that derive from Latin compassion means: we cannot look on coolly as others suffer; or, we sympathize with those who suffer

Todas as toneladas de ferro dos tanques russos nada eram comparadas com aquele peso. Não há nada mais pesado do que a compaixão. Nem a nossa própria dor é tão pesada com a dor co-sentida com outro, por outro, no lugar de outro, multiplicada pela imaginação, prolongada em centenas de ecos.

See nõrkus, mis tollal oli paistnud Terezale talumatu, eemaletõukav ja mis oli ta maalt minema ajanud, tõmbas teda korraga ligi. Ta adus, et kuulub nõrkade hulka, nõrkade leeri, nõrkade maale ja et ta peab olema neile ustav just seepärast, et nad on nõrgad ja ahmivad keset lauset õhku.