Lord Byron Quotes

Compassion is contempt with a human face.

A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.

Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love. The message isn't new, but we haven't learned to live it yet.

More courage is required to forgive than is required to take up arms.

The brave love mercy, and delight to save.

Why does God endow us with compassion?

Mankind can be very magnanimous, given the chance.

The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility.

May God our Lord never let me harm anyone when I cannot help him!

Try to find the path of least resistance and use it without harming others. Live with integrity and morality, not only with people but with all beings.

Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.

Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.

I want a world without war, a world without insanity. I want to see people do well. I don't even think it's as much as what I want for myself. It's more what I want for the people around me. That's what I want.

It is sometimes difficult to view compassion and loving kindness as the strengths they are.

In any character I ever play, whether she's good or bad or whatever, my most important thing is heart.

To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.

Compassion and mercy are important, period. It doesn't matter who's at our receiving end, but we need to be flexing those muscles. It's not mutually exclusive: If you have compassion for children starving in Africa, it doesn't mean you can't have compassion for adults in Africa or animals that are being tortured and abused.

I believe in peace. I believe in mercy.

I know for certain of only one commandment, one obligation, that God imposes upon us, and that is to be compassionate toward other human beings.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

There are always great deals of humanity in the characters that have been offered to me.

I have no ill will in my heart against anybody in this world.

Dignity does not come from avenging insults, especially from violence that can never be justified. It comes from taking responsibility and advancing our common humanity.

We are not by nature cruel.