Quotes About Compassion

Food matters and animals matter and eating animals matters even more. The question of eating animals is ultimately driven by our intuitions about what it means to reach an ideal we have named, perhaps incorrectly, "being human.

One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be a family.

Our response to the factory farm is ultimately a test of how we respond to the powerless, to the most distant, to the voiceless —it is a test of how we act when no one is forcing us to act one way or another.

Historians tell a story about Abraham Lincoln, that while returning to Washington from Springfield, he forced his entire party to stop to help some small birds he saw in distress. When chided by the others, he responded, quite plainly, "I could not have slept to-night if I had left those poor creatures on the ground and not restored them to their mother.

Întru boal? È™i întru boal?", a continuat el s? citeasc?. "Asta îÈ›i doresc. S? nu cauÈ›i È™i s? nu aÈ™tepÈ›i miracole. Nu exist? miracole. Nu mai exist?. Iar pentru durerea care doare cel mai tare nu exist? vindecare. Exist? doar medicina, aceea de a-i crede suferinÈ›a celuilalt È™i de a fi acolo pentru el." (p. 317)

Different people will draw the line in different places with regard to farms like Paul's and Frank's. People I respect draw it differently. But for me, for now —for my family now —my concerns about the reality of what meat is and has become are enough to make me give it up altogether.

Jacob didn't want to coerce or be coerced, but what was he supposed to do? Sit on his hands waiting for his grandfather to shatter his hip and die in a hospital room as every abandoned old person is destined to do?

the birds will be handled roughly and, as I was also told, the workers will regularly feel the birds' bones snapping in their hands.

If it was your child, do you want your child to suffer three years, three months, three weeks, three hours, three minutes? A turkey chick isn't a human baby, but it suffers. I've never met anyone in the industry — manager, vet, worker, anyone — who doubts that they feel pain. So how much suffering is acceptable? That's what's at the bottom of all of this, and what each person has to ask himself. How much suffering will you tolerate for your food? My

Perhaps in the back of our minds we already understand, without all the science I've discussed, that something terribly wrong is happening. Our sustenance now comes from misery. We know that if someone offers to show us a film on how our meat is produced, it will be a horror film.

This is a paradox: The opportunity to see and care for the dead body of a loved person reduces trauma to the bereaved, while seeing and handling the dead bodies of strangers is often traumatic in itself.

Seeing your own smallness is called insight Honoring your own tenderness is called strength

We have just enough religion to make us hate but not enough to make us love each other.

We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches, as to conceive how others can be in want.

It is a melancholy object to walk through this great town, or travel in the country, when they see the streets, the roads, and cabin doors crowded with beggars of the female sex, followed by three, four, or six children, all in rags and all importuning every passenger for an alms.

ponderando os seus serviços e seguindo a suavidade do seu espírito, queria poupar-lhe a vida e contentar-se em tirar-lhe os olhos.

that his majesty gave many marks of his great lenity, often

Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness. —C. S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

Remember, Christ willed to be born poor, and He chose disciples who were living, for the most part, in poverty. Christ made Himself a servant of poor people. And He reminds us that whatever we do to help the least of the brethren--those most poor--we are personally ministering to Him.

We would communicate a far more compassionate message to those who are terminally ill and dying—and to be honest, even to those for whom dying is a long way off—if we focused our energies on helping people die right. To die right. That's what it's all about. Unfortunately, euthanasia has become a popular topic because people are led to believe that death by suicide or homicide is more dignified than dying naturally.

Love is touching souls.

I was overwhelmed with the privilege it is to parent another human being, the luxury of love, the decadence of caring.

Que culpa eles têm? Roubam para comer porque todos estes ricos que têm para botar fora, para dar para as igrejas, não se lembram que existem crianças com fome.