Quotes About Compassion

I guess people think if you're well-known, it's perfectly fine to say anything you want. I don't know why that is. But it shouldn't be, because everybody has families and lives.

My kids will grow up in a house knowing that it's perfectly normal for two men to be in love, it's perfectly normal for two women to be in love. My kids will grow up knowing it's all about love. It doesn't matter who you're with and everyone should have that experience.

I know lots and lots and lots of vegetarians who think it's perfectly all right to kill animals for food to eat, but don't do it because they think all the ways in which it's done are wrong.

There are so many kids in this world, and in this country, that need homes. And so we're perfectly content to look into adoption one day, if for some reason we aren't able to have a biological child.

Even when I get to the point where I am acting and performing, where I want to be with my career, I'm never going to think of anyone as lower than me. Everyone's the celebrity of their own life, you know?

Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.

Perhaps if all the peoples of the world understand what war really means, we would eliminate it.

The health care industry can play a great role in this by being aware of the fact that these children form perhaps the most neglected group of people in the country, largely because it is hard to find them.

I would never manipulate somebody and put somebody in peril so that I could get rich off of it.

If you've got love for me, then I'm gonna have love for you, period.

I grew up in a family where many of our close friends were gay couples. As well as that, every man goes through a period of thinking they're attracted to another guy.

She was a patron saint of the peripheral.

What makes me unusually intense is that I personalize the pain of war, the pain of children being killed, the pain of a 16-year-old who has been permanently cheated by his school and cannot read.

People should never be permitted to feel comfortable while trampling the rights of others.

When I came into the Perry family, it was one of those deals where it was the only family I had. I didn't have a father figure growing up like that, somebody who genuinely cared about me. Governor Perry taught me how to be a good man.

I have in my bones, and in my blood, the knowledge that you have to help the people who are persecuted.

As a child I learned what it meant to be persecuted. But, even then, at the worst of times, I knew there was good in the world.

Scripture makes it clear to me that there is an obligation to speak out on behalf of those being persecuted.

As American Jews and descendants of immigrants, we never forget where our families came from or what members of our community experienced. Because we remember, we look out for those who are freeing persecution, oppression, and danger.

I had an arranged marriage, and learnt you have to persevere and remember we are all human and all have faults. Obviously my husband Abdal has more faults than I do!

Being heard is so close to being loved that for the average person they are almost indistinguishable.

The killing of a disabled person is not 'compassionate'. It is not 'euthanasia'. It is murder.

I don't think that I'm broken at all. I no longer think that I'm a mess. I just think I'm a deeply feeling person in a messy world.

Never judge a person if you don't know him.