Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

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?

We're trying to be proactive and not reactive to the situation. We need to have a little more compassion for the underprivileged. It's hard for them to get the help they need because they're looked down upon.

Ram Dass

Compassion is the ability to see how it all is.

Ram Dass

True compassion arises out of the plane of consciousness where I AM you.

Ram Dass

In the depth of the soul is the atman, the oversoul. And that oversoul is really love and compassion, peace, joy, and wisdom.

Ram Dass

You are joy, wisdom, peace, compassion, and love

Kurt Vonnegut

God damn it, you've got to be kind.

Vandana Shiva

Earth Democracy connects people in circles of care, cooperation, and compassion instead of dividing them through competition and conflict, fear and hatred.

Together, we will not fail Oregonians, ... Oregon will be prepared, and they will receive the competence and compassion from government they should expect.

Ernest Renan

Human cruelty took the form of a pact with the deity. A solemn oath was made to kill everything, in which people forbade themselves any display of reason or compassion. A city or a land was devoted to destruction and it was believed an insult to God if one did not observe the abominable oath.

Moby

I feel like the vast majority of the world's problems would disappear if suddenly everyone on the planet were relatively self-aware and capable of honest self-love and compassion.

Karl Marx

We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.

Jules Verne

No sooner is the rage of hunger appeased than it becomes difficult to comprehend the meaning of starvation. It is only when you suffer that you really understand.

Nick Rahall

Today, our actions must be motivated only by our intense desire to achieve a just and lasting peace. The compassion and charity of the American people should be reflected in this legislation, though sadly, they are silenced.

Natasha Lyonne

I have a deep compassion for the idea that it's okay to be myself. The idea that anything 'other' is bad and wrong and broken is so wildly off base.

Muhammad Ali

I have not lost [Allah's] hope in us to show compassion where none exists and to extend mercy in the most difficult of circumstances. We as Muslims must lead by example

Martin Luther King, Jr.

A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our present policies... True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. A true revolution of values will soon look on uneasily upon the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth with righteous indignation.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see that a system that produces beggars needs to be repaved. We are called to be the Good Samaritan, but after you lift so many people out of the ditch you start to ask, maybe the whole road to Jericho needs to be repaved.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Ultimately a great nation is a compassionate nation.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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.

Mark Victor Hansen

Lack of forgiveness causes almost all of our self-sabotaging behavior.

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.

Paul Bloom

It's hard to pull apart empathy from compassion. What is really clear is that we innately care for other people at least to some extent.

Paul Bloom

People differ in where they direct their empathy and their compassion. Many people are intensely concerned about the suffering of non-human animals, and some do not care at all. There are cultural differences.

Matthew Fox

What is of most moment of compassion is not feelings of pity but feelings of togetherness.

Matthew Fox

Compassion is not pity ... compassion never considers an object as weak or inferior. Compassion, one might say, works from a strength born of awareness of shared weakness, and not from someone else's weakness. And from the awareness of the mutuality of us all. Thus to put down another as in pity is to put down oneself.

Martha Beck

Most unhappy people need to learn just one lesson: how to see themselves through the lens of genuine compassion, and treat themselves accordingly.

Paul Goodman

No good has ever come from feeling guilty, neither intelligence, policy, nor compassion. The guilty do not pay attention to the object but only to themselves, and not even to their own interests, which might make sense, but to their anxieties.