Quotes About Compassion

I must hold his pain where it is, he thought. Mine does not matter. I can control mine. But his pain could drive him mad.

I would not kill even a Bishop. I would not kill a proprietor of any kind. I would make them work each day as we have worked in the fields and as we work in the mountains with the timber, all of the rest of their lives. So they would see what man is born to. That they should sleep where we sleep. That they should eat as we eat. But above all that they should work. Thus they would learn.

I must hold his pain where it is, he thought. Mine does not matter. I can control mine. But his pain could drive him mad. After

You have killed? Robert Jordan asked. Yes. Several times. But not with pleasure. To me it is a sin to kill a man. Even fascists whom we must kill. Yet you have killed. Yes. And will again. But if I live later, I will try to live in such a way, doing no harm to any one, that it will be forgiven. By whom? Who knows? Since we do not have God here anymore, who forgives, I do not know.

For what are we born if not to aid one another? And to listen and say nothing is a cold enough aid.

for all the poor in the world against all tyranny

Come aboard easy," Thomas Hudson said to them. "Keep away from the stern. We got a Kraut dying on the stern that I want to have die easy. What did you find?" "Nothing," Henry said. "Absolutely nothing.

In a war we must all be careful not to hurt each other's feelings.

To understand is to forgive. That's not true. Forgiveness has been exaggerated.

Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbour is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions.

Those men are not fascists, they are same people as us.

Why we were born, if not to help each other? So, nothing to listen and nothing to speak is a very cold help.

He was nervous, and I did not try to help him any.

must hold his pain where it is, he thought. Mine does not matter. I can control mine. But his pain could drive him mad. After

Can't you let a man die as comfortably as he can without calling him names?

on je volio razmišljati o svemu što proživljava a kako nije imao što ?itati niti je imalo radio, mnogo je razmišljao i nastavio je razmišljati i o grijehu. Nisi ti ubio ribu samo da preživiš i da je prodaš na tržnici, pomisli. Ubio si je iz ponosa i zato što si ribar. Volio si je dok je bila živa, i volio si je i poslije toga. Ako je voliš, nije grijeh ubiti je. Ili je možda zato još ve?i grijeh?

any mans death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankinde

Good," said Johnny, smiling happily. "Now we are all good friends again. In a war we must all be careful not to hurt each other's feelings.

He had lost the capacity of personal suffering, or he thought he had, and only could be hurt truly by what happened to others. He believed this, wrongly of course since he did not know then how one's capacities can change, nor how the other could change, and it was a comfortable belief.

She did not like to hear the really bad nor tragic things, but no one does, and having seen them I did not care to talk about them unless she wanted to know how the world was going. She wanted to know the gay part of how the world was going; never the real, never the bad.

Le garçon vit que le vieil homme respirait, puis il vit les mains du vieil homme et il se mit à pleurer. Il sortit très doucement pour aller chercher du café et pleura tout le long du chemin.

When you love, you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.

He had lost the capacity of personal suffering, or he thought he had, and could only be hurt truly by what happened to others.

I wanted it so much,' she said. 'I don't know why I wanted it so much. I wanted that poor kitty. It isn't any fun to be a poor kitty out in the rain.