Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anthony de Mello

These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness.

Anne Rice

That is the crowning evil, that we can even go so far as to love each other, you and I. And who else would show us a particle of love, a particle of compassion or mercy? Who else, knowing us as we know each other, could do anything but destroy us? Yet we can love each other.

David Platt

If our lives do not reflect radical compassion for the poor, there is reason to wonder if Christ is really in us at all

Curtis Jackson

I have less compassion than the average human.

Confucius

Do not treat others as you yourself would not be treated.

Confucius

Not feeling compassion for a stranger is like not feeling when one's foot has caught fire

Alice Walker

Human compassion is equal to human cruelty, and it is up to each of us to tip the balance.

Albert Camus

I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.

Annie Besant

The misery we inflict on sentient beings slackens our human evolution.

Annie Lennox

Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.

Anthony Mackie

For me, Christmas is about family, loving, forgiveness, compassion, understanding and comradery.

Aloe Blacc

Compassion can change a lot of things, including the world. Young people especially need to know that, because they're the future.

Andy Stanley

I want people to help me reanchor the church to undeniable, mind-boggling, culture-shifting demonstration of compassion and generosity. Because, generosity was the hallmark of the early church.

Andrew Sarris

I was a solipsist and a narcissist and much too arrogant. I have a lot more compassion now, but it took a long time.

Ann Patchett

He used to say we all had a compass inside of us and what we needed to do was to find it and to follow it.

William Shakespeare

Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.

E. F. Schumacher

To organize work in such a manner that it becomes meaningless, boring, stultifying, or nerve-racking for the worker would be little short of criminal; it would indicate a greater concern with goods than with people, an evil lack of compassion and a soul-destroying degree of attachment to the most primitive side of this worldly existence.

Richard Wagner

If experiments on animals were abandoned on grounds of compassion, mankind would have made a fundamental advance.

Thomas More

The Utopians feel that slaughtering our fellow creatures gradually destroys the sense of compassion, which is the finest sentiment of which our human nature is capable.

Thomas Sankara

The revolution and women's liberation go together. We do not talk of women's emancipation as an act of charity or out of a surge of human compassion. It is a basic necessity for the revolution to triumph. Women hold up the other half of the sky.

Thomas Sowell

In politics, throwing the taxpayers' money at disasters is supposed to show your compassion. But robbing Peter to pay Paul is not compassion. It is politics.

Thomas Sowell

In the political language of today, people who want to keep what they have earned are said to be greedy, while those who wish to take their earnings from them and give it to others (who will vote for them in return) show compassion.

Thomas Sowell

Although the big word on the left is 'compassion,' the big agenda on the left is dependency.

Thomas Sowell

Compassion is good but politicians have turned compassion into the welfare state.

Thomas Sowell

Compassion is the use of public funds to buy votes

Sydney J. Harris

We evaluate others with a Godlike justice, but we want them to evaluate us with a Godlike compassion.

Susan Sontag

Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. The question of what to do with the feelings that have been aroused, the knowledge that has been communicated. If one feels that there is nothing 'we' can do -- but who is that 'we'? -- and nothing 'they' can do either -- and who are 'they' -- then one starts to get bored, cynical, apathetic.

Rajneesh

As you become more conscious of your cruelty, of your violence, gross and subtle, you start becoming more and more compassionate. Not that you cultivate compassion. Just by becoming aware of your cruelty, violence, ugliness... the very awareness brings new changes in you. And the energy that was involved in cruelty, in violence, starts changing. The same energy becomes purified, the same energy becomes compassion.

Talib Kweli

Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.

Tom Rath

Followers have a very clear picture of what they want and need from the most influential leaders in their lives: trust, compassion, stability, and hope.

Simone Weil

The feeding of those that are hungry is a form of contemplation.

Roger Tory Peterson

Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble.

Rush Limbaugh

Liberals measure compassion by counting the number of people receiving government help.