#compass

Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil. The capacity for feelings of pleasure and pain and for the form of life of which animals are capable clearly impose duties of compassion and humanity in their case. ↗

— John Rawls

#capacity #case #certainly #clearly #compassion

She has no imagination and that means no compassion. ↗

— Michael Foot

#imagination #means #she

Of course we have compassion. We just don't believe the safety net should be used as a hammock. ↗

— Allen West

#compassion #course #hammock #just #net

The genuine priest always feels something higher than compassion. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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I understand what it's like to go to hospitals and there's no medicine, and the best thing you have to give the patients is compassion. ↗

— Sharon Stone

#compassion #give #go #hospitals #i

Compassion is a two way street. ↗

— Frank Capra

#street #two #way

Australia is a nation of compassion. Courage and compassion. And the third of these great values: resilience. ↗

— Kevin Rudd

#compassion #courage #great #nation #resilience

Condemnation feels good and it is now a staple of religion, politics, and the media (both left and right), but it changes nothing. Compassion, on the other hand, changes everything. (p. 121) ↗

— Robin R. Meyers

#condemnation #politics #change

Compassion is a lifetime business. You can't say something like, "I will have compassion on Monday, Thursdays and Fridays only. But for the rest, I will be cruel". That is hypocrisy. ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#compassion #cruel #cruelity #days-of-the-week #food-for-thought

If there is a fundamental challenge within these stories, it is simply to change our lurking suspicion that some lives matter less than other lives. ↗

— Gregory Boyle

#change