Quotes About Compassion

I do not want to make my stomach a graveyard of dead animals.

With "We Are The World," I can't even eat when I watch that on television. If I'm eatin' some food, I have to put it down. I feel very strongly about that.

HOSPITALITY, n. The virtue which induces us to feed and lodge certain persons who are not in need of food and lodging.

In these days when we feed those who are not hungry, we are stealing from those who are starving, even though the food is our own.

...when food is shared in a fair way, with solidarity, when no one is deprived, every community can meet the needs of the poorest. Human ecology and environmental ecology walk together.

I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it.

I plan to write more songs of my own, especially on behalf of the animals we needlessly raise for food, at their great expense, and at great expense to our precious, deteriorating planet.

Just give food without showing affection, [animals] might not get sort of 100% satisfaction. So they also, you see, when we human beings, we show affection, the poor animal also respond to us.

Veganism is simply letting compassion guide our choice of food. As such, it is a basic Buddhist practice that ought to be expected of everyone who takes refuge vows.

What sort of government is it that permits so many children to go to school hungry, without even a morsel of food in their stomachs? It cannot be! It must not be!

Beyond the shadow of a doubt, food was more important than a woman's suffering.

When human body itself is made of flesh, where is the need to consume the flesh of birds and animals? You should partake of only sacred food. Only then you will have sacred feelings.

Feel what it's like to truly starve, and I guarantee that you'll forever think twice before wasting food.

The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleas'd to the last he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.

The body needs food, warmth and water, but your heart needs more.

It would be great if all the fast-food outlets, slaughterhouses, these laboratories and the banks who fund them exploded tomorrow.

Share your food with the needy and you shall see that your food will taste much better!

Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.

Forgiveness liberates the soul. It removes fear. That is why it is such a powerful weapon.

Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.

Forgiving someone isn't just about doing good to another. It's also about healing a scar in your own heart.

We think that forgiveness is weakness, but it's absolutely not; it takes a very strong person to forgive.

By far the strongest poison to the human spirit is the inability to forgive oneself or another person. Forgiveness is no longer an option but a necessity for healing.

Forgiveness is the greatest weapon, because a saint so armed is unperturbable he can give up anger immediately