Quotes About Compassion

When one has suffered or fears suffering, one pities those who suffer; but when one is suffering, one pities only oneself.

It is difficult for an education in which the heart is involved to remain forever lost.

But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people...

We may add that frequent punishments are always a sign of weakness or remissness on the part of the government. There is not a single ill-doer who could not be turned to some good. The State has no right to put to death, even for the sake of making an example, any one whom it can leave alive without danger.

Men, despite all their ethics, would never be anything more than monsters if nature had not given them pity to bolster their reason.

There is not a single ill-doer who could not be turned to some good. The State has no right to put to death, even for the sake of making an example, any one whom it can leave alive without danger.

Reconcile those who are at strife, prevent lawsuits; incline children to duty, fathers to kindness; promote happy marriages; prevent annoyances; freely use the credit of your pupil's parents on behalf of the weak who cannot obtain justice, the weak who are oppressed by the strong. Be just, human, kindly. Do

Respetad a la infancia y no os deis prisa en juzgarla ni para el bien ni para el mal. Dejad

nada enlaza tanto los corazones como llorar juntos.

Cuando por casualidad encuentro alguno que ha escapado a las instrucciones comunes, o que al no conocer mi cara no me muestra ninguna aversión, el honesto saludo de ese solo me restituye de la actitud arisca de los demás. Los olvido para no ocuparme sino de él, y me imagino que tiene una de esas almas como la mía, donde el odio no podría penetrar.

nunca hará mal alguno a otro hombre, ni aun a cualquier ser sensible, salvo el legítimo caso en que, hallándose comprometida su propia conservación, se vea forzado a darse a sí mismo la preferencia.

Votre Dieu n'est pas le nôtre, dirais-je à ses sectateurs. Celui qui commence par se choisir un seul peuple et proscrire le reste du genre humain, n'est pas le père commun des hommes ; celui qui destine au supplice éternel le plus grand nombre de ses créatures n'est pas le Dieu clément et bon que ma raison m'a montré.

Nada hay que influya más sobre mi corazón que un acto de valor hecho a propósito, en favor del débil injustamente oprimido. En

Je sais et je sens que faire du bien est le plus vrai bonheur que le cÅ"ur humain puisse goûter.

Sería preciso que mi ser moral fuera aniquilada para que la justicia se me volviera indiferente. El espectáculo de la injusticia y de la maldad hace aún que me hierva la sangre de cólera; los actos de virtud en que no veo ni fanfarronería ni ostentación me hacen siempre vibrar de alegría y todavía me arrancan dulces lágrimas.

We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.

c'est que si chaque homme pouvait lire dans les cœurs de tous les autres, il y aurait plus de gens qui voudraient descendre que de ceux qui voudraient monter.

Gli animali che voi mangiate non sono quelli che ne divorano altri; voi non mangiate gli animali carnivori, bensì li utilizzate come modelli. Voi siete affamati unicamente delle creature dolci e gentili che non fanno alcun male a nessuno, che vi seguono, che vi servono, e che sono da voi divorate quale ricompensa ai servigi che vi rendono

Es la humanidad pura la que me da cobijo.

Love is love, seems to me. As long as what you love isn't armed robbery, or bombing airplanes, or kidnapping little children. -Crystal

Instead of getting at the other side with something just as bad as they did to you - or something worse - you do something good. Or at least you keep yourself from doing something bad

But how could you? said Lina. When people have been mean to you, why would you want to be good to them? You wouldn't want to, Maddy said. That's what makes it hard. You do it anyway. Being good is hard. Much harder than being bad.

The main thing," she said, "is this: we will refuse to be each other's enemies. We will renounce violence, which is so easy to start but so hard to control. We will build a place where we can all live in peace. If we hold to that, everything is possible.

Empathy is not enough, there must be advocacy. - Jeanne Jones in MIXED: Exploring What It Means To Be Blended In America