Famous Quotes & Sayings

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?

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,

Hillary Clinton

I have more understanding, more compassion. I am on a much more important quest for the truth than any of you. You just don't want me to be president.

Ivo Andric

It seems to me, that if people only knew how hard it was for me to endure life, they would find it easier to forgive me for all the wrong things I’ve done and all the good things that I have failed to do. And they would still find a little compassion within them to pity me.

Jack Kemp

Conservatives define compassion not by the number of people who recieve some kind of government aid but rather by the number of people who no longer need it.

Jack Kerouac

Who knows, my God, but that the universe is not one vast sea of compassion actually, the veritable holy honey, beneath all this show of personality and cruelty?

Isabel Allende

We only have what we give.

his compassion for the world's dispossessed is well-known. This contribution will help to ease their (Afghan's) suffering.

Harry Browne

What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.

Harry Browne

It's wrong for someone to confiscate your money, give it to someone else, and call that "compassion."

Harry Browne

In my experience, people who are truly compassionate rarely use the word "compassion." Those who do talk compassion generally intend to be compassionate with your money, not their own. It's wrong for someone to confiscate your money, give it to someone else, and call that 'compassion'.

Hope is like compassion to me. It's like possibility and living in possibility.

Jack Kornfield

Compassion is our deepest nature. It arises from our interconnection with all things.

Jack Kornfield

When we take time to quiet ourselves, we can all sense that our life could be lived with greater compassion and greater weakness.

Jack Kornfield

Compassion for ourselves gives rise to the power to transform resentment into forgiveness, hatred into friendliness, and fear into respect for all beings.