Quotes About Compassion

I wanted to show that I could take on roles that were a bit softer and more caring.

I don't just talk about jewelry and cars and houses and belittling those that don't have that. I'm a democrat. I speak for the democrats. I speak for the soil.

With eye upraised his master's looks to scan, The joy, the solace, and the aid of man; The rich man's guardian, and the poor man's friend, The only creature faithful to the end.

For solace, I love a book that opens up my perspective.

In my senior year of high school, I read an article in 'Newsweek' about child soldiers in Sierra Leone. I felt a sense of shock - this was happening in the region where I'm from, and people don't know about it. I wanted to understand.

More combat planes, missiles and soldiers won't provide additional bread for our families, desks for our schools, or medicine for our clinics.

All you would hear every night on the news was that somebody had been shot dead in a certain part of Belfast. We lived opposite a judge, and there were always soldiers crouched down in our garden. We'd sit and talk to them, and I even used to sing to them!

We've had soldiers that were so badly hurt and killed. I want their families to get something.

I met children who want to be social workers, lawyers, doctors, community activists and soldiers so they can help their people rise above still difficult economic circumstances.

All missionaries, younger and older, serve with the sole hope of making life better for other people.

We would never do anything for the sole purpose of bumming people out or upsetting people.

Basketball is the opposite of selfishness, basketball is solely about giving and sharing and caring for one another.

I really like feeling connected to people and feeling like I have a good, solid sense of empathy.

We believe in a solid, just, compassionate, hopeful future. That's why I'm in politics. That's why I'm running for president. And that's why I'm going to win!

It infuriates me that when people forget what it's like not to be a Christian, and they get into other people's face about their life or their beliefs. It's amazing to me that people feel their relationship is so solid with God that they have enough time on their hands to question mine or to fix mine.

As a film-maker and a poet, I feel it's my duty to be an eye and an antenna to what's happening around me. I always felt a solidarity with those who are desperate and confused and misused and are seeking a way out of it.

My hope is that the corona crisis will help bring us into a new age of cooperation and solidarity and a realization that we're in this together.

A servant church must have as its priority solidarity with the poor.

When the sense of solidarity has been developed to such a point that each one feels the cause of all others as his own, we shall be drawing near to international and to social peace.

The faith must express itself in charity and in solidarity, which is the civil form of charity.

We want to let people know that we can build solidarity with suffering folks so that they are not excluded, they are integrated.

I can't imagine a society with absolutely no solidarity. For me, it's a nightmare. And I don't want to live in a place like that.

My naivety is to assume people will think there's compassion and solidarity in wanting to play someone even though we are not them.

Neymar has important and extraordinary records. And he also has a solidarity side that he will gradually show.