I think ‚Dirty Harry‘ was probably sensitive toward the victims of violent crime.

Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.

Sir one more comment like that and I will strangle you with my microphone wire!

Never ask anyone over 70 how they feel. They’ll tell you.

Compassionate listening is to help the other side suffer less. If we realize that other people are the same people as we are, we are no longer angry at them.

Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

No one doubts that innocent men, women and children have been the victims of chemical weapons attacks in Syria. And there’s no doubt who is responsible for this heinous use of chemical weapons in Syria: the Syrian regime.

It is easy enough to be friendly to one’s friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

Some like to think that a keen appreciation of art can actually make us better people – more just, more moral, more sensitive, more understanding. Perhaps that is true – in certain rare, isolated cases.

I don’t understand why or how we can bully each other.

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?

Many people look at me and think they know me but they don’t at all. This is the real me. I am a humble person, a feeling person. A person who cares about others, who wants to help others.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

People have me pinned as a shark or a predator in some way, and in no way am I that. I wouldn’t want to hurt anyone. I want to defend people. I want to help people.

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.

I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.

I don’t think that much about my relationship with my mother and what it did to me. I sometimes feel terrible regret about her, what her life must have been like. Often, when I’m enjoying something, I think of how meager her rewards were and how much courage, in a way, she needed to go on living.

In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our part also.

How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.

We have an obligation to help people that cannot help themselves. The mentally retarded, the physically retarded, et cetera.

Whenever you’re going through a tough time, generally, you become more compassionate, you become softer, you become more thoughtful, kinder. These are all spiritual qualities that will help you to align yourself with God and God consciousness rather than with a split fear-based consciousness.

If you would judge, understand.

It’s not a slam at you when people are rude, it’s a slam at the people they’ve met before.

Even today we raise our hand against our brother… We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our ideas to justify ourselves as if it were normal we continue to sow destruction, pain, death. Violence and war lead only to death.

In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence. It is also a course of action that strikes a blow against the regime of international order, but which offers the weak at least some protection from predatory states.

I’m just hoping that people understand that Islam is peace and not violence.

I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?

When I was two, a dragonfly flew near me. A man knocked it to the ground and trod on it. I remember crying because I’d caused the dragonfly to be killed.

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.

If you’re in trouble, or hurt or need – go to the poor people. They’re the only ones that’ll help – the only ones.

I’m actually starting to like more and more people who have convictions that are unpopular.

If I feel good about my parenting, I have no interest in judging other people’s choices. If I feel good about my body, I don’t go around making fun of other people’s weight or appearance. We’re hard on each other because we’re using each other as a launching pad out of our own perceived deficiency.

When you show deep empathy toward others, their defensive energy goes down, and positive energy replaces it. That’s when you can get more creative in solving problems.

I grew up in the South under segregation. So, I know what terrorism feels like – when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn’t look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. I mean, that’s terrorism, too.

The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.

Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.

Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.

This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money and power and no empathy.

Do everything as in the eye of another.

I am not a particularly thick-skinned person.

If 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.

It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless.

Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

Those who ‚abjure‘ violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf.

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another – until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.

Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.

The violence in the Bible is appalling.

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Except for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.

I wish every American had an opportunity to sit down, to go to a base, to meet with families, to meet with service members, to sit down with our veterans – because we would think differently about our challenges as individuals.

A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

We need somebody who’s got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it’s like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it’s like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old – and that’s the criterion by which I’ll be selecting my judges.

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.

I’m not generally a sensitive person, but I tend to be more sensitive toward others and what they’re going through. I don’t know if that’s the healthiest thing, but it’s the truth.