Quotes About Compassion

I hate no one, sir. It seems a waste of emotional energy.

A person may look strong on the outside, but may need another's emotional support.

I'd have much rather gotten dragged into someone else's fight than face what was waiting for me. Other people's emotional pain, no matter how painful, is so much less painful than your own.

No, it's not a 'corpse thing.' I feel I lack the emotional capacity to deal with those in mourning.

The important thing is being capable of emotions, but to experience only one's own would be a sorry limitation.

As an animal lover and as a sometime-meat-eater, I've read so much about the emotional sophistication of pigs and cows and sheep that I do think twice when I do still eat them on occasion.

I have pitfalls. I have emotional responses to things that are really not about me. They're about other people.

We cannot heal the throbbing heart till we discern the wounds within.

You might, without my crediting it, fall deeply in love and forever, with some warped hunchback whelped in the gutter. I should equally stop you from taking him.

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things we could use.

I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.

Everyone, rich or poor, deserves a shelter for the soul, architects should lead in procuring social and environmental change.

We have been too kind to those who are killing the planet. We have been inexcusably, unforgivably, insanely kind.

It was not until we saw the picture of the earth, from the moon, that we realized how small and how helpless this planet is - something that we must hold in our arms and care for.

The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.

While an ethic of justice proceeds from the premise of equality—that everyone should be treated the same—an ethic of care rests on the premise of nonviolence—that no one should be hurt.

I know, up on top you are seeing great sights, but down here at the bottom we, too, should have rights.

True freedom is to share All the chains our brothers wear, And, with heart and hand, to be Earnest to make others free!

In the dark, equality for all of mankind couldn't seem brighter.

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

In the end we must, I think, somehow conclude that they have as much right to this planet as we have.

I look into the faces of people struggling with their own lives, and I do not see strangers.

And remember also that in fighting against man we must not come to resemble him. Even when you have conquered him, do not adopt his vices.

Know that the same spark of life that is within you, is within all of our animal friends, the desire to live is the same within all of us...