Quotes About Compassion

I don't like winning in a violent way.

The thing I worry about with religion isn't to do much with forgetting Christmas. It's to do with religion being angry and violent.

I want to show in a violent sport like our sport, you don't need to hurt anybody in order to win.

We all want the same thing, love and acceptance. That's pretty much it. And what I've learned is that unless I'm happy with my side of the nickel, it can change violently - quickly.

Once kids begin to realize that they are connected to a greater good and greater whole, then that will lessen the possibility that they will act out violently because it creates empathy.

An ex-boyfriend of mine is living with HIV. He has an undetectable viral load so I know first-hand how this can affect people in a serodiscordant couple - which is where one partner is HIV-negative and one is HIV-positive.

I'm running for governor because I want to build a Virginia that works for everyone - no matter who you are, no matter where you're from.

All you have to be is kind. That's all you need. Once you've got that, it virtually rules out everything else.

John McCain felt very strongly about virtually every issue that he tackled, but it was never based in partisanship. He didn't try to score partisan points as he worked on issues. He would work with anyone who wanted to accomplish the goal that he shared.

If we don't accept the uncomfortable proposition that every perpetrator of virtually every act of evil in our history has been a human being like us, then we actually foreclose the possibility of understanding how we do this to one another and therefore make it impossible to figure out how we might prevent these things.

I think virtually everyone wants to do good and be good and be decent to each other and pursue something that is valuable to them and meaningful.

Charity is a supreme virtue, and the great channel through which the mercy of God is passed onto mankind.

Tenderness is a virtue.

Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted.

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

I have always believed in seeking happiness in the happiness of others and the virtue of seeking God's pleasure in helping His people.

Kindness is more than a virtue. It is a source of strength.

Cheerfulness is a very great help in fostering the virtue of charity. Cheerfulness itself is a virtue.

Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others.

Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key, that it's the sine-qua-non of religion, people look kind of balked, and stubborn sometimes, as much to say, what's the point of having religion if you can't disapprove of other people?

To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity. If you look really hard at almost anybody, and try to see why they're doing what they're doing, taking a dig at them ceases to be what you want to do even if you hate them.

My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the priesthood, so I've sort of grown up with a sense of complicity in the lives of other people, so there's no virtue in that; it's the way one is raised.