Quotes About Compassion

I don't like violence.

I'm not someone who is a fan of a lot of violence.

I'm a very great non-violent character. I would never resort to violence to change anything.

Vietnam helped me to look at the horror and terror in the hearts of people and realize how we can't aim guns and set booby traps for people we have never spoken a word to. That kind of impersonal violence mystifies me.

I like video games, but they are very violent. I want to create a video game in which you have to help all the characters who have died in the other games. 'Hey, man, what are you playing?' 'Super Busy Hospital. Could you leave me alone? I'm performing surgery! This guy got shot in the head, like, 27 times!'

Music has the power to divert the violent minds.

Leading from a place of hate only fuels hateful and violent acts across our country.

I think 'Dirty Harry' was probably sensitive toward the victims of violent crime.

Rambo isn't violent. I see Rambo as a philanthropist.

We need to assure that we are nurturing our children and meeting their every need in this violent world.

The world is not violent. But there is a lot of violence in it.

In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character.

My work is less violent because we tend to write what we want to read... and I'm not that interested in gruesome books. Any violence, to fit in well with a crime novel, has to have compassion.

We tend to think of heroes only in terms of violent combat, whether it's against enemies or a natural disaster. But human beings also perform radical acts of compassion; we just don't talk about them, or we don't talk about them as much.

I was always a sensitive, sweet kid, but I got brutalized and I became brutal. And frankly, I don't think it was my natural makeup. I don't think its anyone's natural makeup to be a violent brawler.

In this world, people are violent toward people that they feel are conceptualized as smaller than them. It's an impulse that we have.

I am not a violent person. I actually don't like to hurt people.

As a photographer who is constantly in violent, bloody situations where the instinct is to turn away, I am always trying to figure out how to make people not turn away.

Since I had the baby I can't tolerate anything violent or sad, I saw the Matrix and I had my eyes closed through a lot of it, though I didn't need to. I would peek, and then think, oh OK, I can see that.

I'm not a violent person and I don't hit people.

I think everybody who commits a violent killing is in some way crazy. But that doesn't mean we can let them off the hook for that.

I think we - the way to stop anything violent or anything wrong is by really just paying attention to your own circle. You only can help the world by helping the people next to you.

I'm not a violent person; I'm not interested in violence.

I'm not a violent person at all, and I don't want to show violence for violent's sake.