Quotes About Compassion

We're not living in a one-dimensional society. You can't just talk about, you know, the horrible things in life and the destruction.

We can build a society grounded on friendship and our common humanity - a society founded on tolerance. That is the only road open to us.

Communicated in the right way, Judeo-Christian philosophy and the religions that uphold it bind a citizenry together in pursuit of a just and generous society.

I believe that much of the maladjustment in our societies is caused, not by malevolence and corruption, but simply by ignorance.

When someone else's safety and acceptance in society is on the line, your personal discomfort comes in a very distant second.

The measure of a society is its compassion.

A thief is one who insists on sharing his victimhood.

Be present to those who, living in the midst of a society burdened by poverty and corruption, are broken in spirit, tempted to give up, to leave school and to live on the streets.

We need to build up society in the light of the Beatitudes, walking towards the Kingdom with the least among us.

My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.

Dream of a society at peace with its conscience because it respects and lives in harmony with all life forms.

Many of us do not believe in capital punishment, because thus society takes from a man what society cannot give.

The compassionate actions of a Buddha are essential to reforming and revitalizing society.

The obligation of a society as prosperous as ours is to figure out how nobody gets left too far behind.

My view is that when in doubt, society should err on the side of life.

The measure of a society can be how well its people treat its animals

You can judge a society by the way it treats it's animals

True compassion is more than throwing a coin to a beggar. It demands of our humanity that if we live in a society that produces beggars, we are morally commanded to restructure that society.

Are we Darwinists - where we live and let live? Or are we nurturing as a society? There has to be a standard of living that we decide to support.

If you see a lonely homeless, ask this question: Where the hell the society is? And here is the answer: It is rotten and enjoying somewhere!

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are

The sins of women and children, domestic servants and the weak, the poor and the ignorant, are the sins of the husbands and fathers, the masters, the strong and the rich and the educated.

The world has narrowed to a neighbourhood before it has broadened to a brotherhood.

When one attains self-knowledge, distinctions of race and religion vanish.