Quotes About Compassion

I can't hope to convey the full effect of the embraces and avowals, but I can perhaps offer a crumb of counsel. If there is anybody known to you who might benefit from a letter or a visit, do not on any account postpone the writing or the making of it. The difference made will almost certainly be more than you have calculated

Rights have to be asserted. Animals cannot make such assertions. We have to make representations to ourselves on their behalf.

Those who worry about the treatment of animals are often accused of sentimentality or of putting the plight of beasts before the immense problems of humanity. But it is quite rare to find a humanitarian who is indifferent to animals and surprisingly common to find that those who belittle animal rights are the same ones who find the pain of humans easy to bear.

Like the quality of mercy, the prompting of compassion is not finite, and can be self-replenishing.

Christian America" that cares for people before they are born and after they are dead but is only interested in clerical coercion for the years in between

Your narrative may fail to grip if you haven't taken any care to find out how well or badly your audience member is faring (or feeling).

It kindled in me a resolution which I have tried to keep ever since: to spend at least once every year a little time in a country less fortunate than my own. (If

When mass rapes occurred in the course of aggressive war in Bangladesh and later in Bosnia, Mother Teresa in the first case and the Pope in the second made strenuous appeals to the victims not to abort the seed of the invader and the violator.

If someone tells me that I've hurt their feelings, I say, 'I'm still waiting to hear what your point is.

I can think of a handful of priests and bishops and rabbis and imams who have put humanity ahead of their own sect or creed.

If you can't hear, I hope it's not my fault.

ground)—"He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her"—has entered our literature and our consciousness. This episode

And once, in spite of the men who gripped him by each shoulder, he stepped slightly aside to avoid a puddle on the path. It is curious, but till that moment I had never realised what it means to destroy a healthy, conscious man. When I saw the prisoner step aside to avoid the puddle, I saw the mystery, the unspeakable wrongness, of cutting a life short when it is in full tide.

We speculate that it is at least possible that, once people accepted the fact of their short and struggling lives, they might behave better toward each other and not worse.

Christopher Hitchens

The Nazis were not right to hate the Jews. But their hating of Jews was not without a cause. No one ever hates without a cause.

Here, in their midst, George feels a sort of vertigo. Oh God, what will become of them all? What chance have they? Ought I to yell out to them, right now, here, that it's hopeless?

The capacity for loyalty is stretched too thin when it tries to attach itself to the hypothetical solidarity of the human race.

Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris.

It's very difficult to stay angry when a room full of bald guys in orange robes start giggling. Buddhism.

The Emperor decided to make a proclamation to his troops about the importance of compassion in the face of the rising tide of heinous fuckery and political weaselocity in the nearby kingdom of the United States.

You were supposed to empathize with your friend's problem, but they were, after all, your friend's problems...

The three jewels of Tao: compassion, moderation, and humility. Balthasar said compassion leads to courage, moderation leads to generosity, and humility leads to leadership.

So hey, once Joshua heals your brother, you want to go do something, get some pomegranate juice, a falafel,or get married or something?