Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

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

Thomas Sowell

Compassion is the use of public funds to buy votes

Richard Gere

When I am there [Tibet], I am very happy. The Tibetans radiate. They literally send out light. His holiness [the Dalai Lama] generates love and compassion to every human being. He has committed himself to that. I haven't made that leap yet. I haven't given up self-aspiration. I still love making movies.

Richard Gere

If you can see them [the terrorists] as a relative who's dangerously sick and we have to give them medicine and the medicine is love and compassion. There's nothing better.

Richard Rohr

God created us for love, for union, for forgiveness and compassion and, yet, that has not been our storyline. That has not been our history.

Richard Rohr

The two Virtues of Equanimity and Compassion become more available to the person whose ego-shell has been smashed-either by great suffering or by great love-or by both.

Robert Ley

No compassion will be tolerated for the Jews. We deny the Pope’s statement that there is but one human race. The Jews are parasites.

Sasha Azevedo

Nothing beats having a genuine compassion for human souls. If there is one thing I know, it's that people want to be acknowledged; they want to be heard; and above all, they want to be appreciated.

Satish Kumar

You have no skills in your hands. You have no education of understanding the meaning and the purpose and the compassion and the relationship. You have just a profession.

Sarah MacLean

I practice loving-kindness meditation, which cultivates compassion and equanimity.

Sarah Orne Jewett

I've got 's much feelin' as the next one, but when folks drives in their spiggits and wants to draw a bucketful o' compassion every day right straight along, there does come times when it seems as if the bar'l was getting low.

William Hogarth

I had rather, if cruelty has been prevented by the four prints [The Four Stages of Cruelty], be maker of them than of the [Raphael] cartoons.

William Sloane Coffin

To show compassion for an individual without showing concern for the structures of society that make him an object of compassion is to be sentimental rather than loving.

Walter Savage Landor

Immoderate power, like other intemperance, leaves the progeny weaker and weaker, until nature as in compassion covers it with her mantle and it is seen no more.

Walter Savage Landor

Cruelty is no more the cure of crimes than it is the cure of sufferings; compassion, in the first instance, is good for both; I have known it to bring compunction when nothing else would.

Rudolf Steiner

Wherever love and compassion are active in life, we can perceive the magic breath of the spirit blowing through the sense world.

William Blum

Our leaders are cruel because only those willing to be inordinately cruel and remorseless can hold positions of leadership in the foreign policy establishment. People capable of expressing a full human measure of compassion and empathy toward faraway powerless strangers do not become president of the United States, or vice president, or secretary of state, or national security adviser or secretary of the treasury. Nor do they want to.

Joss Whedon

Forgiveness is like a great act of compassion. That it was done not because someone deserved it, but because they needed it.

Radhanath Swami

We must be instruments of God's compassion to those who are suffering.

Radhanath Swami

Lord's love manifests in this world as compasssion.

Radhanath Swami

Compassion without detachment is attachment to the bodily platform.

Radhanath Swami

The essence of Hinduism is the same essence of all true religions: Bhakti or pure love for God and genuine compassion for all beings.

Radhanath Swami

Preacher is an instrument of compassion, not an instrument of wrath.

Radhanath Swami

Compassion is an essential element of love.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

But a compassion for that which is not and cannot be useful and lovely, is degrading and futile.

Liam Neeson

Your compassion is a weakness your enemies will not share,

Lennox Lewis

The danger of a closed mind is that it can also leave good things like love, compassion and reason on its outside.

Terry Pratchett

YOU MUST LEARN THE COMPASSION PROPER TO YOUR TRADE" "And what's that?" "A SHARP EDGE.

Temple Grandin

Nature is cruel but we don't have to be

Shunryu Suzuki

The beginner's mind is the mind of compassion. When our mind is compassionate, it is boundless.

Laura Schlessinger

Some people seem to see compassion as being mushy.

Rowan Williams

Religion has always been a matter of community building; a matter of building precisely those relations of compassion, fellow feeling and - I dare to use the word - inclusion, which would otherwise be absent from our societies.