Quotes About Compassion

You can tell all you need to about a society from how it treats animals and beaches.

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.

A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful.

The quality of a society will be judged by what the least privileged in it achieves.

I use my job to engage empathy and compassion for people society might stereotype or ostricise.

You meet saints everywhere. They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society.

Each of us is a being in himself and a being in society, each of us needs to understand himself and understand others, take care of others and be taken care of himself.

We rise by lifting others.

The measure of the greatness of a society is found in the way it treats those most in need, those who have nothing apart from their poverty!

To inflict cruelties on defenceless creatures, or condone such acts, is to abuse one of the cardinal tenets of a civilized society - reverence for life.

To show compassion for an individual without showing concern for the structures of society that make him an object of compassion is to be sentimental rather than loving.

We need to defend the interests of those whom we've never met and never will.

The church has an unconditional obligation to the victims of any ordering society, even if they do not belong to the Christian community.

Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less.

We live in a society that likes to kick people when they're down. Don't be a fair-weather friend. Stick with people. They need you more in the tough times than they do in the good times.

The abolition of the death penalty is making us a civilized society. It shows we actually do mean business when we say we have reverence for life.

When we begin to believe that there is greater joy in working with and for others, rather than just for ourselves, then our society will truly become a place of celebration.

Every time you make a choice that expresses respect for life, you bring a little more love in your body, into your family, into our society, and into a world that is calling out for this blessing.

As a civilised society, we have a duty to support those among us who are vulnerable and in need. When times are hard, that duty should be felt more than ever, not disappear or diminish.

Vegans are the ONLY unique people on this planet who think outside of the box. They are the ONLY ones who reject society's norms, and live differently than the aforesaid groups and people.

Canada must be progressive, and Canada must be a just society.

If we can look upon our work not for self-benefit,but as a means to benefit society,we will be practicing appreciation and patience in our daily lives.

To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.

We must never relinquish the vision of a humane society and a humane world.