"We live in a culture that discourages empathy.……" — Barack Obama

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• Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is… — Karen Armstrong
• Compassion is the key in Islam and Buddhism and Judaism and Christianity. They are profoundly similar. — Karen Armstrong
• If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will… — Francis of Assisi
• Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat… — Sri Aurobindo
• My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants;… — Teresa of Avila
• People confuse compassion with government being compassionate with other people's money versus people being compassionate with their own money. — Michele Bachmann
• Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. — James M. Barrie
• If Republicans are aiming for the heart, for compassion, the last thing they should do is abandon the sanctity of… — Gary Bauer
• One thing everyone seems to agree on is that Republicans face a perceived compassion deficit. — Gary Bauer

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