Quotes with compassion

  • We get a lot of raps as Americans for being small-minded, but in fact, when you really drill down to the core of the culture, there's an enormous amount of compassion and forgiveness and support.
  • When we're looking for compassion, we need someone who is deeply rooted, is able to bend and, most of all, embraces us for our strengths and struggles.

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  • Bhagavad Gita Out of compassion I destroy the darkness of their ignorance. From within them I light the lamp of wisdom and dispel all darkness from their lives.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Everett M. Dirksen The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion.
    Everett M. Dirksen
     
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  • Camille Paglia Academic Marxism is a fantasy world, and unctuous compassion-sweepstakes, into which real workers or peasants never penetrate.
    Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Brendan Myers All our relationships are person-to-person. They involve people seeing, hearing, touching, and speaking to each other; they involve sharing goods; and they involve moral values like generosity and compassion.
    Brendan Myers
    Canadian philosopher and author (1974 - )
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  • Adam Kinzinger Americans in general have a lot of compassion, we just don't always have the same view of how that compassion is implemented.
    Adam Kinzinger
    American politician (1978 - )
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  • Bill Hybels Authentic Christians are persons who stand apart from others. Their character seems deeper, their ideas fresher, their spirit softer, their courage greater, their leadership stronger, their concerns wider, their compassion more genuine and their convictions more concrete.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Francis Schaeffer Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.
    Francis Schaeffer
    American theologian and philosopher (1912 - 1984)
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  • Bai Ling Boundaries, and countries, if we don't have that we are all brothers and sisters, we can all have love and joy and compassion for each other: the world would be much more beautiful.
    Bai Ling
    Chinese-American actress (1966 - )
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  • Chogyam Trungpa Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.
    Chogyam Trungpa
     
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  • John Berger Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
    John Berger
    English art critic, novelist, painter and poet (1926 - 2017)
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  • Betty Williams Compassion is more important than intellect in calling forth the love that the work of peace needs, and intuition can often be a far more powerful searchlight than cold reason.
    Betty Williams
    Irish activist (1943 - 2020)
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  • Rush Limbaugh Compassion is no substitute for justice.
    Rush Limbaugh
    American radio talk show host (1951 - 2021)
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  • Hubert Humphrey Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • Eric Hoffer Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer Compassion is the basis of morality.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Willard Beecher Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
    Willard Beecher
     
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  • Berkeley Breathed Dear Lord, I've been asked, nay commanded, to thank Thee for the Christmas turkey before us... a turkey which was no doubt a lively, intelligent bird... a social being... capable of actual affection... nuzzling its young with almost human-like compassion. Anyway, it's dead and we're gonna eat it. Please give our respects to its family.
    Berkeley Breathed
    American cartoonist, director and screenwriter (1957 - )
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  • Arnold Bennett Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion.
    Arnold Bennett
    British novelist (1867 - 1931)
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  • Barry Lopez Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion.
    Barry Lopez
    American author (1945 - )
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  • Bell Hooks For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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