Compassion Quotes - Page 31

• Who knows, my God, but that the universe is not one vast sea of compassion actually, the veritable holy honey, beneath all this show of personality and cruelty?

  Jack Kerouac

  Sea, Personality, Honey

  Jack Kerouac (1957). “On the Road”, Viking Press

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• Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion! What feminism does not need, it seems to me, is an endless recycling of Doris Day Fifties clichés about noble womanhood.

  Camille Paglia

  Feminism, Doe, Needs

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.84, Vintage

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• Academic Marxism is a fantasy world, and unctuous compassion-sweepstakes, into which real workers or peasants never penetrate.

  Camille Paglia

  Real, World, Fantasy

  "Junk Bonds and Corporate Raiders: Academe in the Hour of the Wolf". Camille Paglia, "Arion", Third Series, Volume 1, No. 2, Spring 1991.

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• That the religious right completely took over the word Christian is a given. At one time, phrases such as Christian charity and Christian tolerance were used to denote kindness and compassion. To perform a "Christian" act meant an act of giving, of acceptance, of toleration. Now, Christian is invariably linked to right-wing conservative political thought -- Christian nation, Christian morality, Christian values, Christian family.

  Peter McWilliams

  Christian, Religious, Freedom

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• Love of God and compassion and empathy leads you to a very glorious place. Science leads you to killing people.

  Ben Stein

  People, Empathy, God Love

  "Trouble ahead for science". archive.boston.com. May 8, 2008.

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• The same Divine Compassion that blessed Dharma; saved Gajendra; restored Kuchela; and stood by Prahlada, has come to the Earth as the Refuge of the refugeless; as the Lord of Peace, Harmony and Righteousness; as the Lord of all the Worlds; as the Sath-Chith-Anandamurthi; and as the Puttaparthi Sathya Sai Sath-Chakravarthi - the King of Kings.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Kings, Blessed, World

  "Sathya Sai Speaks, Volume 26: 1993". Discourses by Sri Sathya Sai Baba (Discourse of October 21, 1993), www.sssbpt.info.

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• It is man's vision of a world fit for rational, civilized humanity which leads him to dare and to suffer to build societies free from want and fear. Concepts such as truth, justice and compassion cannot be dismissed as trite when these are often the only bulwarks which stand against ruthless power.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Men, Justice, Humanity

  Aung San Suu Kyi (1991). “Freedom from fear: and other writings”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• Compassion is a mixed passion, composed of love and sorrow.

  Noah Webster

  Passion, Sorrow

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• If one doth act in friendly wise, With no evil thought toward any single creature, And in so doing becometh proper, And if he have compassion in his soul Toward all living beings--this noble one Doth acquire abundant Virtue.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wise, Evil, Soul

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• When the Sun of compassion arises darkness evaporates and the singing birds come from nowhere.

  Amit Ray

  Bird, Darkness, Singing

  Amit Ray (2012). “Nonviolence: The Transforming Power”, p.26, INNER LIGHT PUBLISHERS

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• To be a satirist, at all events. The venom of Pope is what is needed. The sense of delight -- the expansion and the compassion of Shakespeare is no good at all for that. He is a bad comic.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Expansion, Events, Delight

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• At this critical time, I am grateful to Sandra Bullock for once again demonstrating her leadership, compassion and belief in our global humanitarian mission. Sandra continues to enable our lifesaving work and is a model for personal generosity.

  Sandra Bullock

  Grateful, Generosity, Belief

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• You can have the 'golden rule' - do unto others as you would have others do unto you. But then you take it one step farther - where you just do good unto others, period. Just for the sake of it.

  Jennifer Beals

  Sake, Golden, Steps

  WCIU Interview, May 04, 2011.

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• What interests me is love, sex, death, cruelty, compassion and the desire for meaning in an apparently godless universe. In other words the human condition.

  Glen Duncan

  Sex, Desire, Cruelty

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• Blanket compassion will shift the distribution decisively towards the manipulative end of the spectrum, and may paradoxically decrease the compassion with which the genuinely despairing are treated: for they are apt to get lost in the great mass of pseudo-distress and manipulation, and often their conduct draws less attention precisely because it is less attention-seeking.

  Anthony Daniels

  Attention, May, Manipulation

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• I have more compassion than if I had led a life where everything worked out exactly as I had planned or if I had never been wounded or if I had never been betrayed or I had never been harmed. I don't think I would be as good a person.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Thinking, Would Be, Betrayed

  "Elizabeth Gilbert, ‘Eat, Pray, Love’ Author, On What It Takes To Get Inspired". Interview with Chantal Pierrat, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 11, 2013.

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• I got to a point where kind of a oneness with everything and a great compassion. It teaches you compassion. It was a great, enlightening experience, a spiritual experience. Not particularly religious, but spiritual. It was great. I can still go there.

  Larry Hagman

  Spiritual, Religious, Oneness

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• People complain about their griefs and sorrows and how they pray to God but find no relief from pain. But grief itself is a gift from God. It is the symbol of His compassion.

  Sarada Devi

  Pain, Grief, People

  "In the Company of the Holy Mother" by Advaita Ashrama, (pp. 220-221), 1993.

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• Compassion isn't a sign of weakness, but a mark of civilization.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Civilization, Weakness, Mark

  Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn (2014). “A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity”, p.21, Vintage

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• The "Lucifer Effect" describes the point in time when an ordinary, normal person first crosses the boundary between good and evil to engage in an evil action. It represents a transformation of human character that is significant in its consequences. Such transformations are more likely to occur in novel settings, in "total situations," where social situational forces are sufficiently powerful to overwhelm, or set aside temporally, personal attributes of morality, compassion, or sense of justice and fair play.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Powerful, Character, Play

  "Who was Lucifer and how did he become the Devil?". 2007.

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• What is it that is done to our children that their puberty should deform them? They have the joy of movement; they have an enterprising curiosity; they are ready for sensible self-denial; they dream ahead, and they have a faithful memory, and, above all, great compassion... The well-meaning educator who flatters and humours the young not only does a disservice to the community, but also damages the individual by depriving him of the opportunities of self-discovery.

  Kurt Hahn

  Dream, Children, Memories

  "Kurt Hahn: A Life Span in Education and Politics". Book by Robert Birley, §1, p. 8, 1966.

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• There can be no doubt that the young of today have to be protected against certain poisonous effects inherent in present-day civilization. Five social diseases surround them, even in early childhood. There is the decline in fitness due to modern methods of locomotion; the decline in initiative due to the widespread disease of spectatoritis; the decline in care and skill due to the weakened tradition of craftsmanship; the decline in self-discipline due to the ever-present availability of tranquilizers and stimulants, and the decline in compassion, which William Temple called "spiritual death.

  Kurt Hahn

  Spiritual, Self, Civilization

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• In Buddhism, compassion always goes with wisdom. Compassion without wisdom is not understood to be true compassion, and wisdom without compassion is not true wisdom.

  Masao Abe

  Buddhism, Being True, Understood

  Masao Abe (2016). “Buddhism and Interfaith Dialogue: Part one of a two-volume sequel to Zen and Western Thought”, p.15, Springer

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• the distance between this pigeon's brain and mine is minute compared to that between mine and Bodhi 's Wisdom Compassion

  Frederick Franck

  Distance, Brain, Pigeons

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• Any characteristic that you can't stand in another person is an aspect of you that you can't stand in yourself. Once you discover that this characteristic is also in you, your resistance towards the other person gets replaced with compassion.

  Bill Ferguson

  Resistance, Characteristics, Aspect

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