Quotes About Compassion

Wanneer een S.S.-man me dood zou trappen, dan zou ik nog opkijken naar z'n gezicht en me met angstige verbazing en menselijke belangstelling afragen: Mijn God kerel, wat is er met jou allemaal voor verschrikkelijks in je leven gebeurd, dat je tot zùlke dingen komt?

I know that those who hate have good reason to do so. But why should we always have to choose the cheapest and easiest way? It has been brought home forcibly to me here how every atom of hatred added to the world makes it an even more inhospitable place.

Don't give anybody up. . . or leave anybody out. . . . There's room for everything, and time for everybody, if you take your day the way it comes along and try not to be much later than you can help.--Spoken by Jack to Gloria

When somebody, no matter who, gives everything, it makes people feel ashamed for him.

Surely even those immune from the world, for the time being, need the touch of one another, or all is lost.

If reality is what looms, love is what pervades...

I knew this, anyway: that my wish, indeed my continuing passion, would be not to point the finger in judgment but to part a curtain, that invisible shadow that falls between people, the veil of indifference to each other's presence, each other's wonder, each other's human plight.

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I mean supposing we—the self-satisfied, successful members of society—are responsible for the injustice visited upon the heads of our less fortunate "brothers-in­Christ" because of our shameful indifference to it. We see misery all around us and we do not care. We do nothing to prevent it. Are we not then, in part at least, responsible for it? Have you ever thought of that?

Fear is isolating for those that fear. And I have come to believe that fear is a cruelty to those who are feared.

Friends show their love in times of trouble.

Alex got angry at me because he said I didn't understand how hard it was. And you know what? He was right. I didn't understand. Not then.

The Good World Project. This too made Winter smile his wintry smile. "To silence the voices of hate that divide us—this is not controversial, this is simply the right thing to do. To direct the resources of all nations toward humanity's shared objectives—this is not controversial. It's the right thing to do. To heal the planet from the wounds inflicted on her . . .

Beth was always warm and interested in what you were saying. She made you feel like you were the only person in the world she cared about.

I bet if you ask them, you'd find out they have moms too. Nicki and Jim. Meredith. They maybe all have moms." "Maybe even you," I said. "Well let's not jump to conclusions," Palmer drawled.

She was—I'm not sure how to best describe it—a receiving presence, not a giving one. You talked to her . She listened. Pretty soon, you found you had told her everything about yourself—and you felt better for it too. She had a wonderful soothing way about her. But she hadn't told you anything, nothing at all.

The Bible nowhere says that animals are just made for human use. It does not say that the whole earth is just ours to do with as we like. Neither does it say that God's sole interest is with the human species. We cannot allow such an important and influential book to become the preserve of those who want to exploit animals. The Bible needs to be read, studied, and reclaimed for the animals.

I mean consider how very horrible it is to read the accounts which sometimes meet us of cruelty inflicted on brute animals. For what was this but the very cruelty inflicted upon our Lord?," John Henry Newman

The worst thing you can be in this job is partial, invested. You just have to get good at turning that off. You have to see the bodies as bodies, not as people. They were people once, of course, fuelled by food and water, driven by electrical impulses. But then, for whatever reason, the power got turned off. The lights went out. They were transformed into meat.

I do tend to like people in practice, even though I've built an airtight

I just want her to be happy. But I don't think that's what she wants.

What do you actually care about?" "People," I said. "All right, E.M. Forster.

How can I make your difficult life more tolerable?" "Just be nice to me, I guess? My brain doesn't work.

The best thing you can do for the poor is..not be one of them