Quotes About Compassion

In countries where there are real civil wars, people go through a lot, and we should be willing to go through a lot to help them.

All the persecutors declare against each other mortal war, while the philosopher, oppressed by them all, contents himself with pitying them.

To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.

poor boy! I never knew you, Yet I think I could not refuse this moment to die for you, if that would save you

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?

What a terrible thing war is, what a terrible thing!

Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers and sacrifices of his friends.

War is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer.

The easiest way to forget about the people who are dying in wars right now is to close our eyes and ears! And this is also the ugliest and the vilest way!

The casualty of war is our disappearing humanity.

But to a Vietnamese peasant whose home means a lifetime of back-breaking labor, it will take more than presidential promises to convince him that we are on his side.

Just when you think this war has taken everything you loved, you meet someone and realize that somehow you still have more to give.

But I supposed love doesn't stop, even in wars.

Every day we have a choice - either to spread love and peace or to spread hate and war! And each one of us must choose love and peace each time and every time!

When every heart is filled with peace and every mind is searching for peace, how can there be war?

May be you find out I could be useful getting people out of camps and prisons in Germany - just before they got shot. I should love to do it and I like to jump out of a plane even every day.

Love' is the only weapon I have, I will defend with love, I will attack with love.

Always seek justice, but love only mercy. To love justice and hate mercy is but a doorway to more injustice.

Sonetimes the hardest person to forgive is yourself.

Let us pray now for the future dead. Though we do not yet know their names, we know that there shall be far too many of them.

May we always be burdened with thinking of the suffering of others, for that is what it means to be human.

Too much war, hatred and fear in the world.Desperately needed: More art, love and poetry.

This world needs much more kissing and far less fighting.

It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.