Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephenie Meyer

After all I've seen, if I hadn't learned compassion, I wouldn't be worth much.

Stefan Zweig

Long-protracted suffering is apt to exhaust not only the invalid, but the compassion of others; violent emotions cannot be prolonged endlessly.

Woody Allen

One man starving puts a crimp in my evening.

William Winwood Reade

Our enlightened posterity will look back upon us who eat oxen and sheep, just as we look upon cannibals.

William Wordsworth

Worse than idle is compassion if it ends in tears and sighs.

William Nicholson

There is this notion that the lives of the comfortable-off middle class don't merit being treated seriously and with compassion.

William McNamara

Being vegan or vegetarian isn't just about compassion for animals. Most of the destruction of the planet is the result of all the clear-cutting, groundwater contamination, grain production, fuel consumption, greenhouse gas, viral proliferation - the direct result of livestock production.

Willem Dafoe

Performing is about developing empathy, which leads us to a broader view of the world and encourages us to develop compassion; so we can comfort each other and not be so brutal with each other.

Ronald Reagan

Respect for human rights is not social work; it is not merely an act of compassion. It is the first obligation of government and the source of its legitimacy.

Said Nursi

Life is a manifestation of unity.

Tori Amos

I find that in the 21st century, there's not a lot of compassion for what other people are going through or the walk that they have to walk.

Vera Farmiga

I just wanted to make sure that yes, that those horror - they worked as a genre. To me, I just wanted to be touched by the film in the way that I saw plausible. Which is the story about compassion - giving and receiving it in those desperate times of need.

Robert Wagner

Pets have more love and compassion in them than most humans.

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

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.