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Quotes About Compassion

And you'd think that killing people would make them like you, but it doesn't. It just- it just makes them dead.
~ Unknown
I never meant it, " he was saying. "Never meant it to happen. Can't stand it, seeing her suffer. Must do something, do something... What do I do? What can I do...?
~ Rachel Caine, Ghost Town
What is it? Tens, I can see the stick up your arse from here. I'm dying remember? Dying people don't have time for silly moods
~ Unknown
I love the world, just, you know...not the people in it.
~ Unknown
You think that killing people will make them like you more, but it doesn't, it just makes them dead.
~ Unknown
It would be the last thing he did if he beat my dog.
~ Holly Hood, Ink
I never hear about dear Mike. I wrote Ellen Greene and asked about him and she replyed and never mentioned Mike but told me all about her roomatism. As if I cared about her roomatism.
~ L.M. Montgomery
He studied with the guru of rock n' roll, Baba Oom Mow Mow, who taught his own version of the Golden Rule: "Do wop unto others as you would have them do wop unto you.
~ Swami Beyondananda
Naturally, we lunatics are the kindest of the bunch.
~ Eoin Colfer, Airman
But then again, I shouldn't judge. That is, after all, my pet peeve.
~ Katie McGarry, Red at Night
To evade insanity and depression, we unconsciously limit the number of people toward whom we are sincerely sympathetic.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
We are sometimes hurt mostly or only not by what happened or is happening to us but by being felt sorry for.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Being HIV positive doesn't necessarily mean that you are going to die before each and every person who is HIV negative.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.
~ Unknown
It was easier when all we wanted to do was eat them and take their stuff, " he grumbled.And it had been easier when he hadn't cared if he made any of them cry.
~ Anne Bishop, Written in Red
When pointing out the flaws in others, people always end up talking about themselves.
~ Claire Chilton
The worst sinner has a future, even as the greatest saint has had a past. No one is so good or bad as he imagines.
~ Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Since the cruel killing of cows and other animal have commenced, I have anxiety for the future generation.
~ Lala Lajpat Rai
We cannot build our own future without helping others to build theirs.
~ William J. Clinton
The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children.
~ Marian Wright Edelman
No one person has to do it all but if each one of us follow our heart and our own inclinations we will find the small things that we can do to create a sustainable future and a healthy environment.
~ John Denver
The people of the future will say, 'meat-eaters!' in disgust and regard us in the same way that we regard cannibals and cannibalism.
~ Dennis Weaver
Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.
~ Nelson Mandela
There is no future without forgiveness
~ Nelson Mandela