Quotes About Compassion

The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.

Everybody comes from the same source. If you hate another human being, you're hating part of yourself.

Love has no awareness of merit or demerit; it has no scale... Love loves; this is its nature.

The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world.

All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering, the animals are our equals.

I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.

I believe in nature and humanity and am here to serve the common people of Pakistan. There is a great deal of suffering in this country and I'm here to help.

When man violates man's laws, we send him to jail and point the finger of scorn at him. When he violates nature's laws, we send him to a hospital, give him flowers, and feel sorry for him.

To feel much for others and little for ourselves, that to restrain our selfish, and to indulge our benevolent affections, constitutes the perfection of human nature.

Capital punishment is against the best judgment of modern criminology and, above all, against the highest expression of love in the nature of God.

Nature is cruel but we don't have to be

If you let people follow their feelings, they will be able to do good. This is what is meant by saying that human nature is good.

The center of human nature is rooted in ten thousand ordinary acts of kindness that define our days.

Dogs are not people dressed up in fur coats, and to deny them their nature is to do them great harm.

The Holocaust teaches us that nature, even in its cruelest moments, is benign in comparison with man when he loses his moral compass and his reason.

Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.

The love for justice that is in us is not only the best part of our being but it is also the most true to our nature.

What is most important is to go deep into ourselves and discover the loving kindness and compassion of the buddha within - the awakened nature we all possess.

We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.

No man has ever been born a Negro hater, a Jew hater, or any other kind of hater. Nature refuses to be involved in such suicidal practices.

Love is the first ingredient in the relief of suffering.

The Utopians feel that slaughtering our fellow creatures gradually destroys the sense of compassion, which is the finest sentiment of which our human nature is capable.

To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to nirvana.

Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.