Quotes About Compassion

We still have a long way to go. But we are moving in the right direction. If only we can overcome cruelty, to human and animal, with love and compassion we shall stand at the threshold of a new era in human moral and spiritual evolution—and realize, at last, our most unique quality: humanity.

How can you stop yourself from yelling and shouting and accusing everyone of cruelty? The easy answer is that the aggressive approach simply doesn't work.

Hope does not deny the evil, but is a response to it.

So, let us move forward with faith in ourselves, in our intelligence, in our indomitable spirit. Let us develop respect for all living things. Let us try to replace violence and intolerance with understanding and compassion and love.

If I were a bird that needs feathers to fly higher, my mother would be my strongest feather. She was extremely supportive. When I was one and a half, I took a whole handful of earthworms to bed with me. My mother said very quietly, Jane, they will die if they leave the earth. And so, together, we put them back into the garden.

That is our hope. Because if we all start listening and helping, then surely, together, we can make the world a better place for all living things. Can't we?

People say to me so often, 'Jane how can you be so peaceful when everywhere around you people want books signed, people are asking these questions and yet you seem peaceful,' and I always answer that it is the peace of the forest that I carry inside.

Only if we understand, will we care. Only if we care, will we help. Only if we help, shall all be saved.

The first time I saw adult chimpanzees in these five-by-five foot cages... tears began to trickle down under my mask, and [JoJo, a chimp,] just reached out this gentle finger and wiped them away... And then the veterinarian came. He knelt down beside me and put his arm around me. He said, I have to face this every day.

The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves

Thousands of people who say they 'love' animals sit down once or twice a day to enjoy the flesh of creatures who have been utterly deprived of everything that could make their lives worth living and who endured the awful suffering and the terrors of the abattoirs

I'd like to be remembered as someone who really helped people to have a little humility and realize that we are part of the animal kingdom, not separated from it.

Cruelty is a terrible thing. I believe it is the worst human sin.

wisdom involves using our powerful intellect to recognize the consequences of our actions and to think of the well-being of the whole.

Just tell people stories, try and find out who they are, try and find something that links you with them.

We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place.

Unfortunately, the media devotes so much space to covering all of the bad, hateful things that are going on and not enough to reporting about all the goodness and kindness that's out there.

Our guide was in the background saying, 'This whale has forgiven us. She has forgiven us for who we were and is seeing who we are today.

Only if we care, will we help. Only if we help, shall all be saved.

Archbishop Tutu once explained to me that suffering can either embitter us or ennoble us, and it tends to ennoble us if we are able to make meaning out of our suffering and use it for the benefit of others.

a great deal of our onslaught on Mother Nature is not really lack of intelligence but a lack of compassion for future generations and the health of the planet:

there seems to be a disconnect between our clever brain and our compassionate heart.

I truly believe that a lot of what I perceive as deliberate cruelty is based on ignorance.

Moral evolution, I think, is understanding how we should behave, how we should treat others, understanding justice, understanding the need for a more equitable society.