Quotes About Compassion

War that I have anywhere in my life should stop.

I urge you all today, especially today during these times of chaos and war, to love yourself without reservations and to love each other without restraint. Unless you're into leather.

War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to exist

The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.

I've learned that from a war ignited by revenge, nothing can be born, but sorrow. - Aladdin

War is not a polite recreation but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to understand that and not play at war.

If governments were kind, they'd realize that conficts are resolved and wars prevented not by armies but by ordinary people.

I always stood for the elimination of conflict and wars, and any of those causes that ignite them.

We are the folk song army, every one of us cares. We all hate poverty, war, and injustice unlike the rest of you squares.

As a matter of fact, 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.

I say that every prince must desire to be considered merciful and not cruel. He must, however, take care not to misuse this mercifulness.

I believe in the kindness of strangers. And when I'm at war with myself I ride, I just ride.

To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?

War hurts. It hurts no matter which sides the bombs are falling on.

No ethos, pursued without thought or mercy, is ethical.

Having seen war, you obviously learned to hate war.

My prayer is that what we have gone through [World War One] will startle the world into some new realization of the sanctity of life, animal as well as human.

Hatred of war will not bring peace. Only love of peace will bring about those conditions.

War is good for absolutely nothing, because no matter how far and wide apart we may live, we're all the same under the skin. We all want to live, laugh and love.

What I really want is a world where no one alive can remember what the word 'war' means. That's my goal.

The wars of Israel were the only 'holy wars' in history... there can be no more wars of faith. The only way to overcome our enemy is by loving him.

Mankind deserves sacrifice - but not of mankind.

If there is a God, the phrase that must disgust him is - holy war.

A conscientious man would be cautious how he dealt in blood.