Quotes About Compassion

Never violate a woman, nor harm a child. Do not lie, cheat or steal. These things are for lesser men. Protect the weak against the evil strong. And never allow thoughts of gain to lead you into the pursuit of evil. -The Iron Code of Druss the Legend

Yours is a race whose imagination is limited to its own small appetites. Greed, lust, envy - these are the motivating forces of humankind. What redeems you is that in every man and woman there is a seed that can grow to encompass love, joy and compassion. But this seed is never allowed to prosper in fertile ground. It struggles for life among the rocks of your human soul.

My point is there will always be vile men, just as there will always be men of kindness and compassion... ...This world is a troubled, savage, place. It would, however, even be more ghastly if only evil men took time to master weapons. - Waylander from the book Hero in the Shadows by David Gemmell

No man should curse love. Ultimately, love is all there is.

Never violate a woman, nor harm a child. Do not lie, cheat, or steal. These things are for lesser men. Protect the weak against the evil strong. And never allow thoughts of gain to lead you into the pursuit of evil. That was the iron code of Druss the Legend.

You did not kill those children, and you could not have saved them. There is a limit to the power of any single man, even a hero. You were the boy who fought the bear. Now you are the man who killed the king. Yet you are only a man. You are not responsible for the woes of the world or the evil of other men.

I do not believe that the way to fight great evil is to commit a lesser one.

No, but if you will forgive me, let me say this: all children are creatures of joy, and all people are capable of love. You feel you lost everything, but there was a time before your joy when your children did not exist and your wife was unknown to you. Could it not be that there is a woman somewhere who will fill your life with love, and bear you children to bring you joy?

Never violate a woman, nor harm a child. Do not lie, cheat, or steal. These things are for lesser men. Protect the weak against the evil strong. And never allow thoughts of gain to lead you into the pursuit of evil.

For each man there are different perspectives, but at the core they are the same. Never violate a woman, nor harm a child. Do not lie, cheat or steal. These things are for lesser men. Protect the weak against the evil strong. And never allow thoughts of gain to lead you into pursuit of evil.

The greatest day-to-day enemy of the poor is the middle-class bureaucrat who contemptuously treats them as data to be processed, without care to their needs or circumstances

Dr. Obama had that same trick of looking at you so sadly that you felt sorrier for her than for yourself.

I don't get revenge. Hurting back just means two people are hurt.

If it wasn't for Jamie staying with me all the time, I don't know what I would have done. He says it was hard because he knew what Mom wasn't telling me, but that's when Jamie and I started being friends.

Yeshua ben Yusef

Hating someone is like drinking poison and hoping the other person dies. It all sounds very good, but it's a lot easier to say it than to do it.

The trick was to live here without hating yourself because all around you was hatred.

The strange thing was, he wanted to like everyone. He just couldn't find a way to do it.

The trick was to live here without hating yourself because all around you was hatred. The trick was to refuse to allow your pain to prevent you from living honorably.

She sat across from him at the kitchen table at three o'clock in the morning, while he stared in silence or talked or wept, and she took when she could a piece of his sorrow and stored it for him in her own heart.

Non mi fu mai dato di vedere un animale in cordoglio di sé. Un uccelletto cadrà morto di gelo giù dal ramo senza aver provato mai pena per se stesso.

you for or against the equality of human beings?

He might have thought white people was coyotes, but he still shared food with me. Long as people do that, I guess it don't matter what they think of you.

We need to love ourselves in order to feel good about who we are. This love is called self-esteem.