Compassion Quote by Diane Ackerman

“All our senses feed the brain, and if it diets mainly on cruelty and suffering, how can it remain healthy? Change that diet, on…

— Diane Ackerman

The eating of meat extinguishes the seed of great compassion.

— Gautama Buddha

His universal compassion was due less to natural instinct, than to a profound conviction, a sum of thoughts that in the course of living…

— Victor Hugo

“Cultivation of the mind is as necessary as food to the body”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Compassion for animals is intimately connected with goodness of character; and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot…

— Anonymous

“Cruelty is foiled by compassion.”

— Hugh Howey

“Compassion doesn't have to be learned. It's part of our fabric. We have just been programmed to neglect it over time, and THAT is…

— Joan Marques

Let a man fear, above all, me, his God, and so much the gentler will he become toward my creatures and animals, on whom,…

— Bridget of Sweden

“Compassion arises from inside you - it is already present within you like a seed that needs to be cultivated. If you feed and…

— Carmel Sheridan

Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Compassion is the only one of the human emotions the Lord permitted Himself and it has carried the divine flavor ever since.

— Dagobert D. Runes

Compassion takes imagination.

— Jennifer Beals