#compassion

All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart. ↗

— Tahereh Mafi

#empathy #loneliness #love #love

Compassion is not a popular virtue. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#popular #virtue

Compassion is the key in Islam and Buddhism and Judaism and Christianity. They are profoundly similar. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#christianity #compassion #islam #judaism #key

I have compassion, I've told you people that over and over again. Enforcing the law overrides my compassion. ↗

— Joe Arpaio

#compassion #enforcing #i #law #over

Humans — who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals — have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain. A sharp distinction between humans and 'animals' is essential if we are to bend them to our will, make them work for us, wear them, eat them — without any disquieting tinges of guilt or regret. It is unseemly of us, who often behave so unfeelingly toward other animals, to contend that only humans can suffer. The behavior of other animals renders such pretensions specious. They are just too much like us. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#behavior #compassion #suffer #vegetarian #experience

I'd been trying for a while to get parts that weren't just the English bad guy, so it was quite refreshing to be playing someone who was a compassionate, decent guy. ↗

— Sean Bean

#bad guy #been #compassionate #decent #english

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#compassion #friendship #indignation #life #long

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#become #compassion #judgment #mother #slowly

The war in Iraq has as much to do with terrorism as the administration has to do with compassion. ↗

— Julian Bond

#compassion #iraq #much #terrorism #war

If everyone in the world sat quietly at the same time, closed their eyes and concentrated as hard as they could on peace and goodwill, all the killing and cruelty in the world would continue. And probably increase. ↗

— George Carlin

#funny #humor #peace #funny