Quotes About Compassion

Girls at war opt for a quieter cruelty than fistfights and drive-by shootings. Girls circumvent the corporeal and go straight for each other's souls. The bleeding is harder to stanch.

Let the world feel your compassion: Help save kidnapped Yazidi females!

If you're anti-war it doesn't mean you are 'pro' one side or the other in a conflict.

I am totally against the war but violence is part of mankind and it's going to happen, but as musicians I think we've got to step up and say 'come on'.

Ours is a nation that does not seek revenge.

War with evil; but show no spirit of malignity toward the man who may be responsible for the evil. Put it out of his power to do wrong.

It is for the benefit of mankind to mitigate the horrors of war as much as possible.

There are wars and poverty and so on - it's based on fear. You can cure that with your being by not being afraid.

Poverty and War have no excuse.

And she looked at him and saw the grave tenderness in his eyes, and yet knew, for she was bred among men of war, that here was one whom no Rider of the Mark could outmatch in battle.

I can't be on the side of any sort of war and I'm not going to be. I am against the war and I am very vocal about it.

I observed a thousand acts of courage, compassion and love [as a POW] and I will always treasure that memory above all others.

It must be a hard thing to kill a man you don't know and don't hate.

Man is, perhaps, no more prone to war than he used to be and no more inclined to commit other evil deeds. But a given amount of ill will or folly will go further than it used to.

It seems to me that there are two great enemies of peace - fear and selfishness.

The most powerful weapon known is the weapon of blessing. Therefore, a clever person relies on it. He wins with peace, not with war.

I'll picture Rat Kiley face, his grief, and I'll think, You dumb cooze. Because she wasn't listening. It wasn't a war story. It was a love story.

When a man vowed to nonviolence as the law governing human beings dares to refer to war, he can only do it so as to strain every nerve to avoid it.

I believe all war to be wholly wrong.

I believe that it is impossible to end hatred with hatred.

The way I'm going now is to focus on peace, to create peace. As Sister Corita said, "I don't go to anti-war rallies. I go to peace rallies."

In times of war, don't touch the guns; stay as a human! Always refuse to be a killer!

Hey, I'm for love, not war. How about we have a beer?

It's good to focus on the universal suffering that goes on in any war. Whatever the right and wrongs of the war, there is always universal suffering.