Quotes About Compassion

Since this war began our sympathy has gone out to all the suffering people who have been dragged into it. Further hundreds of millions have become involved since I spoke at Limerick fortnight ago.

Regardless of whom you pray to, during war our experiences as a community and as mothers are the same.

Make love and not war! 'Cause we don't need no trouble. What we need is love To guide and protect us on. If you hope good down from above, Help the weak if you are strong now.

It requires infinitely a greater genius to make love, than to make war.

Peace is more than just an absence of war. True peace is justice, true peace is freedom, and true peace dictates the recognition of human rights.

In the eyes of mercy, no one should have hateful thoughts. Feel pity for the man who is even more at fault. The area and size of mercy is limitless.

I'm ready to stop waging war and start washing feet.

When a culture simply shrugs about what happens to people in war, it breaks the fragile sequence, the bond between all people.

My pacifism is not based on any intellectual theory but on a deep antipathy to every form of cruelty and hatred.

I would never rob your cradles to feed the dogs of war

We are brothers and sisters; not enemies. It is not the will of God that countrymen go to war against one another.

How vivid is the suffering of the few when the people are few and how the suffering of nameless millions in two world wars is blurred over by numbers.

Wherever you are, I will find you and I will bring you home

Less hatred, more love, less war, more peace, more respect for the Mother Nature and for other people.

the better angels of our nature

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

Even if my country remains in war with yours. . .remember. . . i am not your enemy.

One dictum I had learned on the battlefields of France in a far distant war: You cannot save the world, but you might save the man in front of you, if you work fast enough.

The world does not need a war against 'terrorism', it needs a culture of peace based on human rights for all.

War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political. That a war can be represented as helping a people to 'feel good' about themselves, or their country, is a measure of that failure.

By bringing shame to a person, how could one expect to make him a better man?

We show our sympathy with slavery by emancipating slaves where we cannot reach them, and holding them in bondage where we can set them free.

We are all victims of war, and we all count.

War is not the answer. Violence is not the solution. A more peaceful world is possible.