Quotes About Compassion

I contend that non-violent acts exert pressure far more effective than violent acts, for the pressure comes from goodwill and gentleness.

I had grown up in a humanist atmosphere, and war to me was never anything but horror, mutilation and senseless destruction, and I knew that many great and wise people felt the same way about it.

All wars are civil wars because all men are brothers... Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born.

Peace is the harvest of love as war is the fruit of hate.

Together, we can make ourselves a nation that spends more on books than on bombs, more on hospitals than the terrible tools of war, more on decent houses than military aircraft.

War cannot be driven out by war, for the use of evil breeds more evil, hostility more hostility, and the use of force more force.

Peace is neither the absence of war nor the presence of a disarmament agreement. Peace is a change of heart.

Nothing should be left to an invaded people except their eyes for weeping.

The war in Iraq has as much to do with terrorism as the administration has to do with compassion.

How can one not speak about war, poverty, and inequality when people who suffer from these afflictions don't have a voice to speak?

War ends only when people love each other.

Wars aren't stopped by fighting wars, any more than you can fight fire with fire. You fight fire with water. You fight violence with nonviolence.

I believe that peace is not merely an absence of war but the nurture of human life, and that in time this nurture would do away with war as a natural process.

When there is war, the poet lays down the lyre, the lawyer his law reports, the schoolboy his books.

Care for him who shall have borne the battle

Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war.

Inflict not on an enemy every injury in your power, for he may afterwards become your friend.

How vile and despicable war seems to me! I would rather be hacked to pieces than take part in such an abominable business.

It is not right to exult over slain men.

The quality of life in our world does not depend on the conflicts that arise, but on our response to them.

The situation in the United States is becoming more dire for average ordinary Americans, and the last thing we need to do is to spend money on death, destruction and war.

Some day I'd like to cover a war in a country as ugly as war itself.

Do not waste time bothering whether you "love" your neighbor; act as if you did.

If it's naive to want peace instead of war, let 'em make sure they say I'm naive. Because I want peace instead of war.