Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.
Scientists are supposed to study animals in a totally objective fashion, similar to the way we inspect a rock or measure the circumference of a tree trunk. Emotions are not to interfere with the assessment. The animal-rights movement capitalizes on this perception, depicting scientists as devoid of compassion.
Society needs both justice and compassion, a head and a heart, if it is to be civilised.
All creatures tread across the rubble of ruined civilizations. The trick is to keep moving. No animal ever goes about dispensing shallow compassion.
I should like to think that we'll find peace on this Earth at some point and come to a collective consciousness of compassion for each other, where we say, 'Enough! Let us live as one!'
The failure to invest in youth reflects a lack of compassion and a colossal failure of common sense.
There is an odd assumption that compassion and care are finite or that critics can be everything to everyone - commenting on everything simply because they can. That's not what cultural criticism is.
Communism everywhere has paid the price of rigidity and dogmatism. Freedom has the strength of compassion and flexibility. It has, above all, the strength of intellectual honesty.
Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.
The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion.
Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.
I own two beautiful homes, and I'm always half-expecting the cops to pull in, seize me with firm compassion, and escort me out.
I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
On January 21st of 2017, the day after I take the oath of office, Americans will finally wake up in a country where the laws of the United States are enforced. We are going to be considerate and compassionate to everyone. But my greatest compassion will be for our own struggling citizens.
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
I think technology really increased human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion.
Meditation is to get insight, to get understanding and compassion, and when you have them, you are compelled to act.
We can prevent many people from becoming terrorists by truly listening to people who feel they've been treated unjustly and responding to their concerns with a sense of justice and compassion.
Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
