Quotes About Compassion

If I were king of the world there wouldn't be boat people, there would only be people coming in boats. I would mix us all up so that we were all exactly one shade of each other.

Why go for a costly, sickly, mass-produced purebred when shelters are full of one-of-a-kind mixed breeds who are literally dying for a home?

I'm a human person, so I do have some sort of compassion for even the people I'm mocking. But at the end of the day, I'm the little guy taking on the big guy. That to me is not bullying. That's satire.

Any time you approach anything in fear and aggression or in self-preservation mode, you are going to scare people off. But if you go in love, with the idea of being the feet and hands of Christ, if you go with the idea of showing the love of Christ, then they become softened because love changes all.

I've always thought of myself as a role model even before being a 'celebrity.' I've always been doing charity work and volunteering in the community since I was 8, so when you do that, I think you just assume that role when you put yourself out there.

There's room for role models who make mistakes.

Even professional, paid carers aren't always models of saintly behaviour - and they know they can knock off at the end of their shift to go home, take an uninterrupted shower, and have a normal conversation with someone.

I always thought of myself as a moderate liberal, a fighter for peace and justice. I never thought of myself as being all that far out.

My mom always told me: Never make fun of anybody, because you never know what that person is going through. Ever since I was a kid, I never did. I never did.

I don't just do a movie to do a movie. Of course I want to amuse people, but some of Madea's greatest moments are when she gets to talk about child rearing and bullying and all kinds of things like that.

Politics has high and low moments. Sometimes it brings out the better angels of our nature; sometimes baser instincts.

It's no beef with Tay-K... Free Tay-K on my momma.

Moms are people, too. Moms make mistakes, too.

Do not judge other moms on how they raise their children.

My advice to moms that have to go to work is to just be easy on yourself and know that you're doing the best you can.

I love football, but I also want to give back. I want to take care of kids and single moms, so it's not only about playing football. I want my life to matter in that way.

Almost every Monday I have a charity thing. I like that. I do.

I think for us as people, when we can help someone with a blood transfusion, when we can help somebody with a monetary donation that can go towards research, to know that you can possibly save a life, it's huge.

I never thought I had the monopoly on struggle or suffering.

I think for really good-hearted people, that idea of putting yourself in the shoes of a monster to figure out why they acted that way, that's a really frightening idea.

I'm not a monster.

The truth is complicated, and few people are actually monsters.

Everybody loves monsters.

The scariest monsters are human beings and what we will do to each other.