#compassion

Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and virtually no humor. She has a philosophical and economical message that she is passing off as fiction, but it really isn't fiction at all. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

#ayn rand #because #compassion #economical #fiction

Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace. ↗

— U Thant

#built #compassion #defenses #love #men

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

#compassion #feels #genuine #higher #priest

We all love animals. Why do we call some "pets" and others "dinner? ↗

— k.d. lang

#compassion-for-animals #healthy-diet #love-of-god #morality #respect

Righteous is the one who was able to demonstrate compassion in face of human suffering. ↗

— Aleksander Kwasniewski

#compassion #demonstrate #face #human #human suffering

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

Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool. ↗

— Andre Maurois

#compassion #fool #happiness #most #naturally

Compassion is a two way street. ↗

— Frank Capra

#street #two #way

Sweet Evelyn, I think, I should have loved you better. Possessing perfect knowledge I hover above him as he hacks me to bits. I see his rough childhood. I see his mother doing something horrid to him with a broomstick. I see the hate in his heart and the people he had yet to kill before pneumonia gets him at eighty-three. I see the dead kid's mom unable to sleep, pounding her fists against her face in grief at the moment I was burying her son's hand. I see the pain I've caused. I see the man I could have been, and the man I was, and then everything is bright and new and keen with love and I sweep through Sam's body, trying to change him, trying so hard, and feeling only hate and hate, solid as stone. ↗

— George Saunders

#compassion #empathy #forgiveness #hatred #change