People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.
Audrey HepburnI’m a radical environmentalist; I think the sooner we asphyxiate in our own filth, the better. The world will do better without us. Maybe some fuzzy animals will go with us, but there’ll be plenty of other animals, and they’ll be back.
Anthony BourdainThere are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt. And, of course, there are Christian monks and nuns who already use Buddhist methods in order to develop their devotion, compassion, and ability to forgive.
Dalai LamaWe think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.
Mother TeresaStay humble and be concerned for the less fortunate.
Mr. TI have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.
Baruch SpinozaThe poor don’t know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
Jean-Paul SartreWe all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness, not by each other’s misery.
Charlie ChaplinEthiopia didn’t just blow my mind; it opened my mind. Anyway, on our last day at this orphanage a man handed me his baby and said, ‚Would you take my son with you?‘ He knew, in Ireland, that his son would live, and that in Ethiopia, his son would die.
BonoThe threat to the planet is us. It’s actually not a threat to the planet – it’s a threat to us.
Margaret AtwoodIf you wished to be loved, love.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaThe wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.
Samuel JohnsonBut who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?
Mark TwainToday, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.
Dalai LamaWhat do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
George EliotLove and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
Dalai LamaHuman kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.
Franklin D. RooseveltI am for people. I can’t help it.
Charlie ChaplinI just really believe people have to get hungry. I think maybe what we need to do, instead of trying to stuff our beliefs down people’s throats, is just pray for them to really be hungry and to see their neediness.
Joyce MeyerGod made and governs the world invisibly, and has commanded us to love and worship him and no other God; to honor our parents and masters, and love our neighbours as ourselves; and to be temperate, just, and peaceable, and to be merciful even to brute beasts.
Isaac NewtonOne of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring.
Thomas SowellA saint is tolerant and is attentive to the pleadings of other human beings, not only to spoken messages but to unspoken messages as well.
Russell M. NelsonI have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person’s life. God is in everyone’s life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else – God is in this person’s life. You can – you must – try to seek God in every human life.
Pope FrancisWhen you have kids, you see life through different eyes. You feel love more deeply and are maybe a little more compassionate. It’s inevitable that that would make its way into your songwriting.
Dave GrohlYou pity the fool because you don’t want to beat up a fool! You know, pity is between sorry and mercy. See, if you pity him, you know, you won’t have to beat him up. So that’s why I say fools, you gotta give another chance because they don’t know no better. That’s why I pity them!
Mr. TBeing unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
Mother TeresaIf you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.
Dalai LamaIt seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.
John SteinbeckBlessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.
Jesus ChristOne man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
Booker T. WashingtonA little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.
Pope FrancisI am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.
Desmond TutuIf you want what you’re saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it. You might save somebody’s life. Your own, first.
Maya AngelouLove begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.
Mother TeresaAll religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.
Dalai LamaA faithful woman can become a devoted daughter of God – more concerned with being righteous than with being selfish, more anxious to exercise compassion than to exercise dominion, more committed to integrity than to notoriety. And she knows of her own infinite worth.
Russell M. NelsonWhen people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.
Lou HoltzThe true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Samuel JohnsonI don’t like to see animals in pain. That was very uncomfortable to me. I don’t like factory farming. I’m not an advocate for the meat industry.
Anthony BourdainI spent years studying the teachings of Patanjali, and he reminded us several thousand years ago that when we are steadfast – which means that we never slip in our abstention of thoughts of harm directed toward others – then all living creatures cease to feel enmity in our presence.
Wayne DyerEvery loss of life is terrible.
George H. W. BushThe environmentalists say capitalism is killing our oceans, air, land, and forests. Capitalists argue that they provide food, fuel, and building materials for a growing world.
Robert KiyosakiHow shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?
Alexander PopeIf you would judge, understand.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaGod’s dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.
Desmond TutuYou may be rich, but there is one thing you can’t afford – that is, if you are a good sort – you can’t afford to spend money on your own luxuries while there are people around you wanting the necessaries of life.
Robert Baden-PowellNobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.
Theodore RooseveltWhen we believe the best of people, we let go of each thing they do that is hurtful to us. And we choose to think things like, ‚I don’t believe they meant to hurt me.‘ ‚Maybe they’re having a bad day or don’t feel well.‘ ‚They probably don’t even realize how they sound.‘
Joyce Meyer‚Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.
William ShakespeareI’m always pushing for human responsibility. Given that chimpanzees and many other animals are sentient and sapient, then we should treat them with respect.
Jane GoodallWe need to, you know, restore people. We need to show mercy. I mean, because as much mercy as you show people, that’s the mercy you’re going to be receiving.
Joel OsteenFear, separation, hate and anger come from the wrong view that you and the Earth are two separate entities, the Earth is only the environment. You are in the centre and you want to do something for the Earth in order for you to survive. That is a dualistic way of seeing.
Thich Nhat HanhI try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn’t touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.
Mother TeresaBut I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
Jesus ChristWe are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.
Desmond TutuMeditation is to get insight, to get understanding and compassion, and when you have them, you are compelled to act.
Thich Nhat HanhI try to be vegan… I really, really try. I don’t eat any red meat, and the whole animal thing really upsets me, so I’ve tried.
Abby Lee MillerI have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
Abraham LincolnThe worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that’s the essence of inhumanity.
George Bernard ShawWe learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You’re always helping people.
Jackie Chan