Quotes About Compassion

I don't want a moratorium on the death penalty. I want the abolition of it. I can't understand why a country [USA] that's so committed to human rights doesn't find the death penalty an obscenity.

Give me your hungry, your tired, your poor, that's what the Statue of Bigotry says. Your poor huddled masses, let's just club them to death, and get it over with.

Any woman's death diminishes me.

If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.

Dogs do not have many advantages over people, but one of them is extremely important: euthanasia is not forbidden by law in their case; animals have the right to a merciful death.

I do not see how a people that can find in its conscience any excuse whatever for slowly burning to death a human being, or for tolerating such an act, can be entrusted with the salvation of a race.

You'll not be in heaven if you're not leaning on the arm of someone you have helped.

One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing.

You cannot walk on the water of hunger, misery, and death. You have to wade through to record them.

I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.

In all religions, we make a choice about what we emphasize, and I choose to come down on the side of a loving God.

It is better and more satisfactory to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent one to death.

I don't really frick with Africa cause people are starving to death and that's not ballin' to me.

At least we should learn to understand our fellow beings, for we are powerless to stop their misery, their ignominy, their suffering, their weakness, and their death.

Every civilian's death diminishes us, collectively.

There is nothing more 'elitist' than thinking our palate pleasure can ever justify a second of suffering or a single death. Please go vegan.

I have come to think that capital punishment should be abolished.

The nice thing about money is that you can do good things with it. I still feel like if something needs to be done or we need to raise money for someone on death row, we can find ways to do it.

But there is a difference here: When Jewish children are murdered, Arabs celebrate the deed. The death of an Arab child is no cause for celebration in Israel.

It's unconscionable to breed with the number of children who are starving to death in impoverished countries.

It is well-nigh obvious that those who are in favor of the death penalty have more affinities with murderers than those who oppose it.

Danger arouses interest. Where death is involved, the vilest criminal invariably stirs a little compassion.

May the death penalty, an unworthy punishment still used in some countries, be abolished throughout the world.

It is proper that we acknowledge the overwhelming weight of international opinion against the juvenile death penalty.