Quotes About Compassion

When you hear about what someone else is going through, and you are unable to distance yourself from it or in any way muzzle your empathy and are inspired to actually do something, these are moments to learn from.

I really hated fighting people and hurting them, but felt unable to stop.

My father was a gruff Irishman who was unable to express feelings and always insisted we be tough. Being a parent, for me, means creating what I didn't have. I want my children to feel love and be able to express it.

My priorities are always the children and the elderly when it comes to our healthcare system, as both groups are unable to help themselves.

There are many people who are unable to eat even a single meal in a day and it is our responsibility to help in whatever way we can.

When day-to-day living became too difficult for him, my father moved to a residential home near me and although he'd never had any sort of dementia test, he gradually became unable either to eat or go to the toilet on his own. Eventually the staff found him too difficult to manage.

Because I have a little bit more, that means I'm better than you? No. Unacceptable.

Discrimination of any kind is unacceptable, but we all know there are invisible moments and instances of discrimination that take place each and every day.

My life has been immensely enriched by gay mentors, colleagues and friends, and any discrimination and persecution of gay people is unacceptable.

We have to understand that in this country, it's unacceptable for anyone to be sick and in need of care and not able to get that care simply because they don't have enough money.

It is unacceptable that people often have to make huge sacrifices just to find a place to live, a roof over their heads.

It is unacceptable, it is forbidden, to harm the innocent.

To publicly shame and attack someone who's been found to be harassed, to intimidate someone who's found to already have been harassed is unacceptable.

We have to take better care of each other and respect each other. Equality must be a priority. Anything less is unacceptable.

Mr. Christ, I read you as an infinitely patient entity who, as they say, often works in mysterious ways, a rebel unafraid to take the tougher, less traveled paths. Seems to me you're playing the long game. Is that why more states are coming out in favor of marriage equality? Is that why the Affordable Care Act is now with us?

We are protecting civilians. We are unarmed. We are no threat to you. Please do not shoot.

The greatest heroes of the Normandy battlefield were the unarmed medics, whom snipers often shot at despite their Red Cross armbands.

The violence against unarmed Black people - names we know, and names we don't know - must end.

Only through loving and supporting one another, even in the face of unbearable pain and suffering, will this cycle of violence end.

The idea of your younger sibling being in pain and realizing you are the cause of that pain is unbearable.

I think Angelina Jolie has done amazing, amazing things, and the international adoption rate just since her has skyrocketed. It's unbelievable.

When you are confronted with a level of devastating disease and death, you never lose that sense of unbelievable humility.

If we all helped one person, wouldn't the world be an unbelievable place?

For me to bully anybody, that sounds unbelievable.