Quotes About Compassion

A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.

I've personally demanded that tyrants let their people go. I've tried to feed the hungry, clothe the poor, protect the elderly and infirm, and defend the needy from the aggressively greedy. I've led a blessed life. What a kick for a kid from the projects.

All my prayers go out to Tyson Fury. I know it's difficult to be in his situation.

Every woman that dies or loses her baby on a threadbare cot in the heart of Uganda, while her sisters on the other side of the world enjoy first-class care, is a threat to our collective humanity.

It's time to join the ranks of nations that have put the ugliness of capital punishment behind them.

People are reminded that it's not all ugliness in the world.

People want to be happy, so they don't want to feel as though they're mired in this world of ugliness. I think that if people can recognize that you can actually help and change that ugliness, then you'll feel a lot better about yourself as well, and that does create a certain amount of happiness.

Hate is ugly.

A civilized nation can have no enemies, and one cannot draw a line across a map, a line that doesn't even exist in nature and say that the ugly enemy lives on the one side, and good friends live on the other.

I don't believe anyone is ugly.

I've seen the good, the bad, and the ugly. Lived it and I'm still here to talk about it and help someone else if I can.

Bitterness is so ugly. I don't want to go there.

Tammy Faye said, I am so happy that Jessica Hahn is so ugly, because now I don't feel so bad.

There's no difference if you're a supermodel or if you've lost both your legs. What are you doing that's beautiful or ugly on the inside?

Reading a play, you view yourself as part of a whole. You see where the whole thing is going, and so you're willing to go to the very ugly place that your heart may go in order to serve the whole.

I try to show ugliness, but with compassion for the people who commit ugly acts.

You don't have to be angry and become an ugly person.

I think you can be conservative and fight for what you believe in without being mean-spirited or bash people or be ugly about it.

God don't like ugly.

The UK public have repeatedly shown enormous generosity to those in need.

I don't hate. I love the Russian people. I love the Belarusan people... I love Ukraine very much.

This ultimate fighting stuff is something I don't agree with. Once a man is down, you have to let him have a chance to prove how good he is.

Parents walk a fine line between discipline and grace - values have to hold even when circumstances change or call for compromise or compassion. It's the ultimate challenge to be both firm and fluid, soft and strong, yielding yet rock solid.

The ultimate problem confronting me all my life has been the senseless injury to and neglect of my sister.