Famous Quotes & Sayings

Just as the grammarian makes one study grammar, A Buddha teaches according to the tolerance of his students; Some he urges to refrain from sins, others to do good, Some to rely on dualism, other on non-dualism; And to some he teaches the profound, The terrifying, the practice of enlightenment, Whose essence is emptiness that is compassion

Adlai Stevenson

[I]t is difficult to picture the great Creator conceiving of a program of one creature (which He has made) using another living creature for purposes of experimentation. There must be other, less cruel ways of obtaining knowledge.

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

Cindy Sheehan

These so-called women have no maternal instinct or compassion for the people that their policies have killed.

Richard Davidson

I committed to doing everything I could to put compassion on the scientific map.

Richard Curtis

Bob Geldof feels the big picture all the time, even in the smallest argument when someone's saying, 'Well, no, you've got to have three staples in the program, not just two,' Bob feels people dying somewhere.

Rick Warren

I happen to agree with many of the liberal emphasis on compassion, justice and equality. I just disagree that it's the government's role to provide everything.

Rick Warren

The church must always show compassion, always.

Pankaj Mishra

We need to infuse politics with ideas like compassion and empathy, and a sense that we live in an interdependent world.

P. C. Cast

True love wasn't found in good hair or the right clothes, make-up or shoes. True love was found in the soul - as was wisdom and compassion

Percy Bysshe Shelley

For there are deeds which have no form, sufferings which have no tongue.

Whatever God does, the first outburst is always compassion.

No-one knows what the soul is. But what we do know is, the soul is where God works compassion

Peter McWilliams

If we want the freedom to take part in our bit of differentness, then we must allow others their rights to take part in theirs, as long as they do not harm the person or property of a non-consenting other, of course. IT'S JUST common sense. It's also constitutional and it forms the cornerstone of the American ideal: free individual expression, tolerance and compassion.

Paulo Coelho

Tolerance and compassion are qualities of fearless people.

Prince

Compassion is an action word with no boundaries.

Philip Yancey

I have come to know a God of compassion and mercy and love.

Mike Pence

The sanctity proceeds out of the belief... that ancient principle where God says "before you were formed in the womb I knew you," and so for the first time in my public life I sought to stand with great compassion for the sanctity of life.

Mother Teresa

Religion has nothing to do with compassion; it is our love for God that is the main thing because we have all been created for the sole purpose to love and be loved.

Mother Teresa

God has identified himself with the hungry, the sick, the naked, the homeless; hunger not only for bread, but for love, for care, to be somebody to someone; nakedness, not for clothing only, but nakedness of that compassion that very few people give to the unknown; homelessness, not only just for a shelter made from stone but for that homelessness that comes from having no one to call your own.

Richard Wagner

If experiments on animals were abandoned on grounds of compassion, mankind would have made a fundamental advance.

Thomas More

The Utopians feel that slaughtering our fellow creatures gradually destroys the sense of compassion, which is the finest sentiment of which our human nature is capable.

Thomas Sankara

The revolution and women's liberation go together. We do not talk of women's emancipation as an act of charity or out of a surge of human compassion. It is a basic necessity for the revolution to triumph. Women hold up the other half of the sky.

Thomas S. Monson

Let us not demean or belittle. Rather, let us be compassionate and encouraging.

Thomas Sowell

In politics, throwing the taxpayers' money at disasters is supposed to show your compassion. But robbing Peter to pay Paul is not compassion. It is politics.

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

Although the big word on the left is 'compassion,' the big agenda on the left is dependency.

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

Vita Sackville-West

Things were not tragic for us then, because although we cared passionately we didn't care deeply.

Saul Alinsky

The fact that people are poor or discriminated against doesn't necessarily endow them with any special qualities of justice, nobility, charity or compassion.

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.