Quotes About Compassion

I play for peace and love.

Sometimes I have a very bad point of being too obnoxious. I am not too obnoxious. I mean, I just try to make things more peaceful. Me being obnoxious makes a lot of things more peaceful.

My whole aim in whatever I say, whatever I do, is to follow the peaceful line of having people live together... If we can all play in that game, the world will be a better place.

We're never going to have democratic countries or peaceful countries until we have democratic or peaceful families.

I have a bigger, peaceful view of life than aggressively breaking down other people.

I believe in building a peaceful world that is also a safe place for animals.

I defy anybody to be of service to another human being and not have the most peaceful night of sleep you've had in a long, long time.

In a crazy, high-pressure environment like a film set, eventually a peculiar kind of empathy develops for your co-workers.

I think we do people a great disservice by putting them on a pedestal and not allowing them to be human.

We have abolished the death penalty for humans, so why should it continue for animals?

We must work to build a criminal-legal system that is deeply rooted in a love for humanity, which begins with ending the federal death penalty in our country.

I'm actually really opposed to the death penalty.

I'm pro-death penalty, but what I have not seen is anybody that would mock someone on death row.

I am against the death penalty.

My personal view is that I am opposed to the death penalty.

I'm really trying to bring an end to the death penalty because it means so much to me.

When I got lucky enough to be successful as an actor, and I got involved in the anti-war stuff and gay rights movement, there was always this thing eating at me about the death penalty, because that was, to me, the bottom line. That was the anti-life - by definition - position, and I didn't understand why we did it.

I don't believe in death penalty even though my background is soldiering.

There is no place for the death penalty in a just, humane society.

Humanitarian appeals always help. They penetrate deeper than political tradeoffs.

The death penalty confronts us with a penetrating moral question: Can even the monstrous crimes of those who are condemned to death and are truly guilty of such crimes erase their sacred dignity as human beings and their intrinsic right to life?

It didn't matter whether I had a penny or whether I had a billion dollars. There was nothing that was going to keep me out of a courtroom, and there was nothing that was going to keep me from helping others.

How can you make the people change? How can you reach them in their heart? I do not have the answers for this.

That's how my mom was. She did that. She went out of her way to say hi to people or to speak to people. She was a people person.