Quotes About Compassion

Father Joe Collins

Frank says of his dad, "He will brag about his involvement with the POWs and the VFW and the flag thing. But what I really appreciate about him is how he took care of my mother for ten years when she was really ill.

A nation achieves greatness by helping others to make peace, not by demonstrating prowess at war or commerce.

They were not fighting for a principle, or a political decision, or a treaty made of paper. They were here for these people and others not the least different from those they'd left at home.

no man who could rationalize the death of a child could truly be called a man at all

If you do not become their friend and then share Jesus with them . . . who will?

Behaving as if you are better than others shows a lack of regard for other people.

Being good to people is the only insurance policy you need.

How careless of me! By which she meant that she had deduced that he had found [them] in his pocket and pitied him for needing to be forever in the right.

This is how I see humanity. When enemies come to your country, destroy the countryside and your village, kill your countrymen, your comrades and the defenseless wounded, you have to kill them and defend your compatriots; that is true humanity.

Stan and Rudy are grown men. It's too late to shape their minds, to teach them values and a sense of compassion. You have to do that when kids are young, before their personalities harden and they come to love their own ignorance.

To be 'for animals' is not to be 'against humanity.' To require others to treat animals justly, as their rights require, is not to ask for anything more nor less in their case than in the case of any human to whom just treatment is due. The animal rights movement is a part of, not opposed to, the human rights movement. Attempts to dismiss it as anti human are mere rhetoric.

Because we have viewed other animals through the myopic lens of our self-importance, we have misperceived who and what they are. Because we have repeated our ignorance, one to the other, we have mistaken it for knowledge.

How would we fare psychologically if the walls of slaughterhouses were made of glass?

Estar por los animales no es estar contra la humanidad. Exigirr que otros traten a los animales con justicia (...) no es pedir nada más o nada menos que lo que se pide en el caso de cualquier humano a quien se le debe un trato justo.

What happens to them matters to them.

People are never perfect, but love can be.

If it is committed in the name of God or country, there is no crime so heinous that the public will not forgive it.

All depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves too seriously.

we do know that she's compassionate and eccentric—an excellent combination in a human being;

I'd like to think that had I known the truth, I might have been a kinder, more loving person. If only we knew the Truth, mightn't we all?

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love. "There is no such thing as a weird human being, It's just that some people require more understanding than others.

I'd like to think that had I known the truth, I might have been a kinder, more loving person. If only we knew the Truth, mightn't we all?

I ask that any and all beings assist and comfort anyone that I have ever harmed either physically, mentally, morally, spiritually or emotionally in any past, present or future life, and I ask any and all beings to assist and comfort the families and friends of anyone I have ever harmed in any way, in any past, present or future life, thank you!