It is not enough to be compassionate, one must act.
Compassion Quotes
He who feels no compassion will become insane.
The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion constitutionality is no match with compassion.
Secular humanists suspect there is something more gloriously human about resisting the religious impulse; about accepting the cold truth, even if that truth is only that the universe is as indifferent to us as we are to it; about facing the existential vacuum in all its horrible majesty; and constructing a life of compassion and […]
She was a symbol of compassion in a world of increasing righteousness. (About Eleanor Roosevelt)
Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.
Of course the more you love the sinner the more you hate and make war on the sin, just as the more you love the person, the more you hate and kill the cancer cells that are killing the person. Compassion for cancer cells does not come from compassion for persons; it comes precisely from […]
Liberals measure compassion by how many people are given welfare. Conservatives measure compassion by how many people no longer need it.
How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in life, when one finds darkness not only in one’s culture but within oneself? If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the […]
I should have no compassion on these witches; I should burn them all.
