Quotes About Compassion

It's weird, but I'm so empathetic; when I see people dying on hot sauce, I do feel for them. And I'm a Midwestern guy, so I think I'm just naturally nice and polite.

Politeness and caring for each other cannot be a thing of the past.

Never speak to an invalid from behind, nor from the door, nor from any distance from him, nor when he is doing anything. The official politeness of servants in these things is so grateful to invalids, that many prefer, without knowing why, having none but servants about them.

I want to start thinking about other people and the political climate. I can't sit here and write an album about myself. It just feels wrong.

I know what it's like to lose your home. I know what it's like to be hungry. I know what it's like to lose a family member because of a lack of health care. So all of these things aren't just political issues for me. All of these things are personal to me.

When you see the political parties squabble, if a baby is not allowed to be born, all the other issues do not come into play.

I try to do stories that make a difference - stories that affect the way people think, stories that people need to hear - and usually what drives me is to do stories about people who have no voice, people who have no political power, people who are overlooked by society.

Just because people think politically different to you doesn't mean they're inhuman.

I don't believe that we should never not talk to people we don't agree with politically. If you can make that person laugh, it's the first step to getting him to listen to change their mind.

It's hard for me not to have a great deal of compassion for the last Romanov family because, really, I don't know if a politically savvy ruler would have been able to make the situation turn out much differently.

I think Black Lives Matter has some really thuggish elements in it. Look - at the risk of being incredibly politically incorrect, but I guess that's my job - I think that all lives matter. Not least black lives.

I think anybody who wants to be president has to be a politician, but I would like to find somebody who's coming from a loving place instead of a political place.

I always tell people this: to be a savvy politician or a good head of state and to be charitable are not mutually exclusive things.

Taking care of people is the duty of every politician.

I am sure I will make a great politician because I love to help people in a genuine way.

I am sure I will make a great politician because I love to help people.

As a mother, I want the very best for my children. As a politician, I want what is best for all children.

We can create a new kind of politics: kinder, more respectful, but courageous, too.

When you are in politics, and you are a genuine person who genuinely cares, then everything comes second.

Politics is not about money.

Politics is in a crisis because it's separated from our deep humanity.

I die a hundred deaths each day. I die when I see hungry people. Or people who're sad. I die when I know I can do nothing about pollution in Mumbai. I die when I feel helpless when my loved one is in pain.

You know you are grown sentimental when you start counting the cygnets on the duck pond in the park to be sure none has perished since you counted last.

I want to move people to think and ponder the question of their own healthcare. And it doesn't need to be political thinking.