Famous Quotes & Sayings

Honore de Balzac

Tradesmen regard an author with a mixed feeling of terror, compassion and curiosity.

Honore de Balzac

Danger arouses interest. Where death is involved, the vilest criminal invariably stirs a little compassion.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can be no peace, no liberty, no harmony between people. Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together.

Francis Schaeffer

There is nothing more ugly than an orthodoxy without understanding or compassion.

Ian Mcewan

Imagining what it is like to be someone other than yourself is at the core of our humanity. It is the essence of compassion and the beginning of morality

J. Michael Straczynski

The American Way is an amalgam of our compassion, our strengths, our failings and our attempts to build a better world, a more perfect union.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Spend your life lifting people up, not putting them down.

Gary L. Francione

All sentient beings should have at least one right—the right not to be treated as property

Friedrich Nietzsche

We must be cruel as well as compassionate: let us guard against becoming poorer than nature is!

Friedrich Nietzsche

Compassion for the friend should conceal itself under a hard shell.

Mike Mills

I felt someone was revealing hard truths about themselves, revealing uneasy things about themselves, which I always find really generous, ... It makes my life easier when people say, 'Hey! I'm not perfect,' or, 'Hey! I've got flaws.' And he did it with such a sense of humor and such compassion for all those flaws, he was making us all a cushion to trip over and fall on, you know?

Shaul Mofaz

I don't think he has ever suffered from want in his entire life, and so the matter of poverty and compassion is far from his heart and also from his policy,

Matt Blunt

I am moved by the compassion of Missourians,

Our spirit is to be considerate and have compassion for people. It's a social responsibility.

Out of compassion I destroy the darkness of their ignorance. From within them I light the lamp of wisdom and dispel all darkness from their lives.

Sharon Salzberg

We are taught that revenge is strong and compassion is weak. We are taught that power is more important than love.

Mahdi Bray

We're not trying to prove anything, other than what our faith requires us to do. What goes with our faith is to help others, to respond and show compassion when people need it, and I'm glad we can do it.

Ashton Kutcher

Seriously, women have a level of outward compassion that a lot of men don't necessarily have. Guys feel as deeply as women, but they don't share it as much. Learning how to do that more has been a valuable add.

We were so impressed with him, with his sincerity, his compassion and especially his passion for health care.

Aberjhani

Humanity is not without answers or solutions regarding how to liberate itself from scenarios that invariably end with mass exterminations. Tools such as compassion, trust, empathy, love, and ethical discernment are already in our possession. The next sensible step would be to use them.

Aberjhani

Compassion crowns the soul with its truest victory.

A. J. Jacobs

The year showed me beyond a doubt that everyone practices cafeteria religion... But the important lesson was this: there's nothing wrong with choosing. Cafeterias aren't bad per se... the key is in choosing the right dishes. You need to pick the nurturing ones (compassion), the healthy ones (love thy neighbor), not the bitter ones.

Adam Kinzinger

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

Abraham Joshua Heschel

When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.

Luis Rodriguez

Usually, the girls just get two minutes on the phone, then they're off, ... This is different. Compassion is needed.

Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous: / Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing.

George W. Bush

expressed our nation's deep concern and compassion for those who lost their lives.

John Gay

We only part to meet again. / Change, as ye list, ye winds; my heart shall be / The faithful compass that still points to thee.

David Levithan

It was like everyone suddenly knew what mattered. Money didn't matter. Politics didn't matter. Tabloid news didn't matter. No-compassion mattered. Calm mattered. Respect mattered. Did it really take something of this magnitude to make us realize this?

Davey Havok

I became a vegetarian out of compassion for animals and to live as healthy as possible. I realized soon after that I was truly concerned with nonviolent consumption and my own health, a vegan diet was the best decision.

Condoleezza Rice

For the United States, supporting international development is more than just an expression of our compassion. It is a vital investment in the free, prosperous, and peaceful international order that fundamentally serves our national interest.

Billy Graham

We must never minimize the suffering of another. Scripture's mandate to us is, "Weep with them that weep." (Romans 12:15, KJV)

Billy Graham

I have been asked hundreds of times in my life why God allows tragedy and suffering. I have to confess that I really do not know the answer totally, even to my own satisfaction. I have to accept, by faith, that God is sovereign, and He is a God of love and mercy and compassion in the midst of suffering.