Quotes About Compassion

I'd like to see a world free of strife, stress, pain, hunger, war - a cool place where everyone could live.

Of course after the fight you want to make sure that you're okay and so is the other guy, it's a brotherhood in there, so you want to make sure everyone is okay after the war is over.

Rather than turning away from the staggering scale and depth of misery caused by war, we must strive to develop our capacity to empathize and feel the sufferings of others.

It would be a fine thing if war could be conducted as a game where no lives were lost. At the end of a battle combatants could meet [...] and drink and talk.

All pity choked with custom of fell deeds.

Mistrust those in whom the urge to punish is strong.

Who are you to end a war? I am here to tell you - who are you not to?

Violence produces only something resembling justice, but it distances people from the possibility of living justly, without violence.

As a result of my philosophy, I wasn't even upset about Hitler. I was willing to go to war to knock him off, but I didn't hate him. I hated what he was doing.

It would now be technically possible to unify the world, abolish war and poverty altogether, if men desired their own happiness more than the misery of their enemies.

That smile could end wars and cure cancer.

War destroys, kills, impoverishes. Lord, give us your peace!

Once we thought a few hundred corpses would be enough then we saw thousands were still too few and today we can't even count all the dead Everywhere you look.

I'm not really interested in politics, because I think it's just too removed from my own life. If there's a war, though, or a disaster, I want to know what's happening.

My role [as a war correspondent] is to bring a voice to people who are voiceless [and] to shine a light in the darkest corners of the world.

To me war is something to be outgrown, recognized as immature, wasteful, and so destructive to life that human beings should shun it ... as they once shunned bubonic plague.

The best way to fight terrorism is to do it through a peaceful way. I believe that a war can never be ended by a war.

It is inhuman to continue a war which could easily be ended

Our planet is blessed with vast natural treasures. If we use them wisely, beginning with the elimination of militarism and war, every human being will be able to live a healthy, prosperous existence.

All forms of violence, especially war, are totally unacceptable as means to settle disputes between and among nations, groups and persons.

Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.

Life is too bitter already, without territories and wars and noble feuds

Nonviolence is not just abstention from war, fighting, or animal flesh. It is abstention from negative thoughts and negative speech.

Our schoolbooks glorify war and conceal its horrors. They indoctrinate children with hatred. I would teach peace rather than war, love rather than hate.