Audrey Hepburn Quotes

… bleeding hearts

It still hurts," she whispered. "Even when you're doing it for someone else, that doesn't stop your ribs from getting cracked, or your wrist swelling, or your cuts from bleeding.

There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.

I had grown up in a humanist atmosphere, and war to me was never anything but horror, mutilation and senseless destruction, and I knew that many great and wise people felt the same way about it.

You don't hurt 'em if you don't hit 'em.

As a result of my philosophy, I wasn't even upset about Hitler. I was willing to go to war to knock him off, but I didn't hate him. I hated what he was doing.

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

The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.

Jesus had a universal concern for those who suffered that transcended the rules of the ancient world.

Courage without compassion can wreak havoc on our civilization.

I hold that all war is morally wrong and its prosecution a crime. I hold life as sacred and cannot bring myself to join in the slaughter of my fellow men.

They charge me with fanaticism. If to be feelingly alive to the suffering of my fellow creatures is to be a fanatic, I am one of the most incurable fanatics ever permitted to be at large.

Some will not look on suffering because it creates responsibility.

I don't think I ever sit there and think to kick a wound harder.

Humanity is best described as inhumanity.

Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.

Kill if you must, but never hate: Man is but grass and hate is blight, The sun will scorch you soon or late, Die wholesome then, since you must fight

I don't want to hurt people.

Cruelty, I truly believe, is the one and only sin.

Its unfortunate and I really wish I wouldn't have to say this, but I really like human beings who have suffered. They're kinder.

Righteous is the one who was able to demonstrate compassion in face of human suffering.

The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.

What's so touching is the way we fight the war right until the moment our business is taken care of and then we turn on a dime and we immediately start taking care of people. It's like a shock and aw shucks campaign.

Anywhere I see suffering, that is where I want to be, doing what I can.