Compassion Quotes

Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.

It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.

It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.

No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim.

Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

I was raised Jewish, my wife was raised Catholic. Though we respect each other's heritage, and while many of our friends are deeply religious, we have chosen to focus on our similarities, not our differences. We teach our children compassion, charity, honesty and the benefits of hard work.

The gift that has been given to me says much about our capacity for great compassion and generosity, and I hope it sends an inspiring message to others about the importance of organ donation.

We obviously need more love in the world. And we obviously need more compassion and understanding. Our leaders need to really address these issues properly now.

Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is a time to honor the greatest champion of racial equality who taught a nation - through compassion and courage - about democracy, nonviolence and racial justice.

As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.

I can tell you and promise you that I've had struggles in my life. And I would love to have people understand that Mitt and I have compassion for people that are struggling.

It is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action.

I joined the Labour party because I believed in equality, in freedom of speech and in tolerance, compassion and understanding for people, irrespective of their background and views. In whatever I decide to do in the future I will hold to those principles.

Rather like Batman, I embody the themes of the movie which are the values of family, courage and compassion and a sense of right and wrong, good and bad and justice.

Competition is such a virtue, and everybody's so busy competing, they have no time for compassion.

Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.

Lincoln did more than any other man to put the stamp of righteousness, to put the stamp of compassion, on the name of America.

The dew of compassion is a tear.

Americans in general have a lot of compassion, we just don't always have the same view of how that compassion is implemented.

When there's that forgiveness present and compassion, it just helps you live so much easier.

When one has love for God, one doesn't feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relatives and friends. One retains only compassion for them.

Developing our sympathetic compassion is not only possible but the only reason for us to be here on earth.

A love for humanity came over me, and watered and fertilised the fields of my inner world which had been lying fallow, and this love of humanity vented itself in a vast compassion.

There's nothing wrong with the free-enterprise system. But it has to have some compassion.

The final causes, then, of compassion are to prevent and to relieve misery.

In search of a complete education with the ideals of trust, faith, understanding and compassion, many families are turning to the structure, discipline and academic standards of Catholic schools.

It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man.

More by example than by word, my father taught me logical reasoning, compassion, love of others, honesty, and discipline applied with understanding.