Quotes About Compassion

I looked across to his picture on the wall, the one that showed him with a pained look on this face, with a bleeding heart painted on his chest. I knew exactly how he felt.

Here for a moment is a glimpse of my plan: All kids will be happy learning things. The wind will smell of wild flowers. Nobody will whack each other about with nasty things. All the room in the world.

Surround yourself with human beings, my dear James. They are easier to fight for than principles.

A woman can put up with almost anything; anything but indifference.

I think it's the same with all the relationships between a man and a woman. They can survive anything so long as some kind of basic humanity exists between the two people. When all kindness has gone, when one person obviously and sincerely doesn't care if the other is alive or dead, then it's just no good. -- from Quantum of Solace

MARÍA. ¡Ay, quién pudiera darte la tranquilidad que tienen los lagos dormidos...! JESÚS. ¡Madre, si yo fuera lago lloverían constantemente piedras sobre mi superficie! ¡Estoy hecho para el dolor!

My chief occupation, despite appearances, has always been love." —Albert Camus

În timp ce foarte mulÈ›i se temeau pentru soarta celor apropiaÈ›i, suferinÈ›a celorlalÈ›i nu mai conta aÈ™a de mult.

The road to Auschwitz was built by hate but paved with indifference

Be pitiful, for every man is fighting a hard battle.

The Ministry of Pain does not judge, who are you to say what is normal and what is not?

satire is not a thing the Compassionate Society has a need for anymore. It's good, it's clever, damn it, it's funny, but it's not Socially Responsible." She could hear the capitals slamming into place like steel teeth.

To take away those people's faith in their Compassionate Society; the faith that the Ministry of Pain, the Seven Servants, the Polytheon, care for them as individuals and want nothing more than their individual happinesses; you think this will make them happy?

Tell me this, then, what are you giving them that the Compassionate Society cannot? Questions? Doubt? Uncertainty? Criticism, cynicism, sneering cheap laughs? Hurt? Pain?

What right have you to try and take away happiness, false or not, illusory or not?" "Because I believe there must be something more important than happiness. Accountability. Quality. Satire." "Not in the Compassionate Society.

So, what happened? CLIMATOS: We happened. The Compassionate Society happened. It took all the big, selfish corporations and monopolies and transformed them into the Seven Servants so that instead of serving themselves, from then on they served everyone by making sure that everyone had what they needed to make them completely happy.

We measure our own humanity by how we respond to the unprogrammed, the unpredictable.

On each twinkling scrap of paper Courtney Hall had drawn what she had glimpsed in that instant of the things that lay beyond the wall, the things the Compassionate Society had pushed away and abandoned and forgotten, the old things, the things of wonder and terror and joy and pain.

It wasn't only wickedness and scheming that made people unhappy, it was confusion and misunderstanding; above all, it was the failure to grasp the simple truth that other people are as real as you.

It was not till he was close upon us that I saw the man. He was little and elderly, with bowed shoulders and poorly dressed. I doubt whether I would have noticed him at all if it had not been for the sinister distinguishing mark on his left breast, the yellow star with Juif printed across it…. I stopped dead in my tracks, stunned. He passed us by without looking at us, but it was a full minute before I recovered the use of my legs. In all my life I have never felt so deeply humiliated.

I work with the Humane Society a lot and have three rescue cats.

PROLOGUE Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat; But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth, When two strong men stand face to face, tho' they come from the ends of the earth! —RUDYARD KIPLING, The Ballad of East and West

Before you criticise someone, walk a mile in their shoes. If you still insist on criticising them, you'll have mike head start and they'll have no shoes.

The harsh truth that this is the only life we have should make us try and improve it for as many people as possible.