Quotes About Compassion

Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don't see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.

Just as 'Islam' literally means 'peace,' none of the 99 names of Allah mean violence. Similarly, every religion in the world stands for peace, compassion, and brotherhood.

This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.

I'm just hoping that people understand that Islam is peace and not violence.

I don't support violence and I don't support negative energy. I don't support people putting other people down.

If we start treating addiction as a public health issue, with more compassion, and without the criminal element, our society will be better off and violence and public safety will improve as a result. We'll also be taking a big step in taking down the prison-industrial complex that disproportionately harms communities of color.

Our first responsibility in the midst of violence is to prevent it from destroying us.

The problem to me is violence. It's not cool to kill somebody or hurt people.

We don't need no more danger, we don't need no more difficulties, we don't need no more misunderstanding, and we don't need no more violence. We need the people to see each other and know of each other, feel each other, touch each other, share with each other, and change hearts with each other.

No matter how much poverty you grow up with, you shouldn't be subjected to violence and abuse.

Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men.

All that violence in the world, we need to stop that.

No matter how liberal I am, I'm still outraged by crimes of violence. Regardless of whether I can sympathize with the causes that lead these individuals to do these crimes, the effects are outrageous.

I don't ever believe in violence as a kind of medicine.

I think violence can never be justified.

No problems are ever resolved by violence. It only aggravates the pain and the hurt on every side.

I just don't believe in joking about violence anymore.

I am committed to the principle that violence is never justified as a means of ameliorating a grievance.

Nonviolence is the only credible response to the violence we're seeing around the world.

It is my contention that most people are not mugged every day, that most people in this world do not encounter violence every day. I think we prepare people for violence, and I think just as importantly we prepare people for the definition of being gentle.

Violence is not more efficient than non-violence.

Our most important task is to transform our consciousness so that violence is no longer an option for us in our personal lives, that understanding that a world of peace is possible only if we relate to each other as peaceful beings, one individual at a time.

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

I do not like violence.