Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tim Russert

there was a perception created of incompetence, some even said callousness and he needs to replace it with compassion.

Antonio Tarver

It's really a slap in the face to all those who have pumped him up and glorified him all these years and that's the media, ... He shows no compassion for the sport - the sport that made him a wealthy man, an icon. Shame on him.

Camilo Cela

For a rich and intensive prose, which with restrained compassion forms a challenging vision of man's vulnerability.

I hope they know that the people on our street sincerely feel so much compassion for them.

Sathya Baba

Eating meat and drinking liquor are demonic vices. Those indulging in drink lose all sense of propriety, have no compassion or love and become demons.

If you publicize a problem but do nothing about it, what you produce is compassion fatigue. You get a lot of reports about these disasters, but nothing ever changes. Just publicity by itself is not nearly enough.

Sathya Baba

If you conduct yourself with peace love and compassion, then you are God.

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.

Frank Herbert

I cry for those not yet dead.

Guru Nanak

Make of the Silence your to-do tasks, of the compassion your wealth and of the meditation your beggar's bowl.

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.

Kristin Hannah

The measure of a society is its compassion.

Milton Friedman

If even a small fraction of the money we now spend on trying to enforce drug prohibition were devoted to treatment and drug rehabilitation, in an atmosphere of compassion not punishment, the reduction in drug usage and in the harm done to users could be dramatic.

Mike DeWine

Since its inception, our Nation has stood on the foundations of compassion and justice.

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.

Jennifer Beals

Compassion takes imagination.

Jennifer Beals

[About compassion] You can have the 'golden rule' do unto others as you would have others do unto you. But then you take it one step farther where you just do good unto others, period. Just for the sake of it.

Glenn Reynolds

[T]he notion that a belief in self-reliance cannot coexist with a spirit of generosity is crap. In fact, one is far less likely to find a spirit of generosity among the advocates of governmentally-required "compassion".

Gerald R. Ford

If compassion and mercy are not compatible with politics then something is the matter with politics.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Are you trying to grasp the quality of intelligence, compassion, the immense sense of beauty, the perfume of love and that truth which has no path to it?

Matt Blunt

I am moved by the compassion of Missourians,

Hubert H. Humphrey

I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known.

Hubert H. Humphrey

We will be remembered not for the power of our weapons but for the power of our compassion, our dedication to human welfare.

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.

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

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?