Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Beloved, all that is harsh and difficult I want for myself, and all that is gentle and sweet for thee

It's obvious that our first reaction was of solidarity and compassion,

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.

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.

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.

Invoke the Mercy of God and as milk returns not to the udder go not back to your wrongdoing." "Have compassion on yourself and on others and Infinite Compassion will be given to you." "In the name of Allah, All-Merciful, All Compassionate, bestow on me a Mercy that shall put me beyond the need of mercy from any other than Thee.

Karen Walker

God didn't give me the ability to play the piano, or paint a picture or have compassion. But... he did give me the ability to crack a walnut with my hoo-ha.

Julian Baggini

Being a good neighbour is about compassion, which is as warm-blooded as justice is cool-headed.

Krista Tippett

What a liberating thing to realize that our problems are probably our richest sources for rising to the ultimate virtue of compassion.

Kris Carr

Isn’t it time you gave yourself a healthy dose of self-love? The fact is, you deserve it. You are a magnificent, radiant being. You are divine. And you are awesome. The sooner you start embracing that and treating yourself accordingly, the sooner your life will begin to unfold with compassion, purpose, ease, health, and vitality.

Kim Delaney

I would say I have compassion.

Kim Harrison

A compassion swirled form nowhere in the high I was lost in. She needed me. She needed me to accept her for what she was. And when I realized that I had it within myself to give her at least this small part of me, the last of my fear melted away.

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.

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".

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?

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,

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.