It is in Rousseau's writing above all that history begins to turn from upper-class honour to middle-class humanitarianism. Pity sympathy and compassion lie at the centre of his moral vision. Values associated with the feminine begin to infiltrate social existence as a whole rather than being confined to the domestic sphere.
We don't want the efficiency of the federal government and the compassion of the IRS to run our health care.
Happiness and peace will come to earth only as the light of love and human compassion enter the souls of men.
Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.
If you want others to be happy practice compassion. If you want to be happy practice compassion.
There never was any heart truly great and generous that was not also tender and compassionate.
A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time at all times who suffers harm done to others whose greatest passion is compassion whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.
We can choose between the future and the past between reason and ignorance between true compassion and mere ideology.
When the people become involved in their government government becomes more accountable and our society is stronger more compassionate and better prepared for the challenges of the future.
Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others by means of love friendship indignation and compassion.
In times such as these people should recognize that evil knows no borders knows no limits and knows no compassion. Those around the globe that value freedom must continue to persevere even in the darkest of times.
Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution. And whether the cause is justice for the persecuted compassion for the needy and the sick or mercy for the child waiting to be born there is no greater force for good in the nation than Christian conscience in action.
When there's that forgiveness present and compassion it just helps you live so much easier.
I think we learn the most from imperfect relationships - things like forgiveness and compassion.
I realized that it's all really one that John Lennon was correct. We utilize the music to bring down the walls of Berlin to bring up the force of compassion and forgiveness and kindness between Palestines Hebrews. Bring down the walls here in San Diego Tijuana Cuba.
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?
All major religious traditions carry basically the same message that is love compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.
To see those babies with no food for three of four days old people sitting in the hot sun when you see these poor people you cannot help but being compassionate or affected.
Compassion is a call a demand of nature to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food.
The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.
God'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.
My mother's love has always been a sustaining force for our family and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity her compassion her intelligence reflected in my daughters.