Quotes About Compassion

Killing is a terrible thing, too. I hate killing. But killing isn't necessarily wrong.

Avoir de la compassion pour les coupables revient à trahir les innocents.

People, if they don't take the lives of others, have the right to live their life.

It is the first responsibility of a friend to provide a shoulder to cry on.

Justice is not the exercise of hatred, it is the celebration of civilization.

Don't lay a cloak of guilt around my shoulders because others are evil.

Lee, one of their daughters, appeared in the doorway, rubbing her sleepy eyes with her fists. Chase scowled at her. She pouted back. Chase sighed. "You've got to be the ugliest child I've ever seen." Her pout turned to a beaming grin. Lee ran over to him, threw her arms around his leg, put her head on his knee, and hugged it tight. He mussed her hair.

A person who is dying, with no hope of recovery, and in great suffering, can be no better served than by the benevolent act of assisting them in ending their suffering.

A civilization must have laws, but there cannot be justice when a man with no conscience metes out sentences without compassion or mercy.

If it works, I'll be happy for you. If it doesn't, I'll be here for you.

As I watched, I was wondering how many of them were suffering from something, trying to recover from something. How many of them had lost a loved one or were suffering from a broken heart? How many of them were worried about a loved one? A child. A parent. A friend.

Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.

Goodness is about what you do. Not who you pray to.

And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things.

I DON'T HOLD WITH CRUELTY TO CATS.

Never build a dungeon you wouldn't be happy to spend the night in yourself. The world would be a happier place if more people remembered that.

I should have learned this, she thought. I wanted to learn fire, and pain, but I should have learned people.

Verence would rather cut his own leg off than put a witch in prison, since it'd save trouble in the long run and probably be less painful.

Most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally evil, but by people being fundamentally people.

Where's the pleasure in bein' the winner if the loser ain't alive to know they've lost?

Seeing things a human shouldn't have to see makes us human.

When you can flatten entire cities at a whim, a tendency towards quiet reflection and seeing-things-from-the-other-fellow's-point- of-view is seldom necessary.

Sometimes the only thing you could do for people was to be there.

Yes, but humans are more important than animals,' said Brutha. 'This is a point of view often expressed by humans,' said Om.