Character Quote by Chris Hedges

As a society, we come up lacking in many of the marks of compassion and wisdom by which we measure ourselves as civilized.

— Greg Boyle

“Ethical culture must be a philosophy of revelation or it cannot exist.”

— Herman Bavinck

“Quite clearly, the one thing the dominant culture cannot tolerate or co-opt is compassion, the ability to stand in solidarity with the victims of…

— Walter Brueggemann

“Civilization is refinement of spirit, respect of one's neighbor, tolerance of foreign opinion, courtesy of manner.”

— Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

The measure of civilized behavior is compassion.

— Paul Theroux

“At their best, all religious, philosophical, and ethical traditions are based on the principle of compassion. I”

— Karen Armstrong

“A civilization must be judged by its standards not by its expenditure.”

— Amit Kalantri

A culture that values production over life values the wrong things, because it will produce things at the expense of living beings, human or…

— Derrick Jensen

“The genuine culture is not of necessity either high or low. It is merely inherently harmonious, balanced, self-satisfactory. It is the expression of a…

— Edward Sapir

“The cool contemplation of other people's suffering while one exhibits polished manners in a society that is deemed civil is only a shade less…

— Stjepan Mestrovic

The measure of a society is its compassion.

— Kristin Hannah

“Compassion can be defined, therefore, as an attitude of principled, consistent altruism. The”

— Karen Armstrong