Compassion Quote by Joseph Befumo

“We are much too tolerant of the moral aberration of statesmen and bureaucrats.”

— Kenzaburō Ōe

“Lately it's started to seem to me that here in America our fetishization of self-reliance has taken a wrong turn and has helped enable…

— Jim Shepard

“And the looks on the faces of my countrymenpassive heads bent arms at their trousers everyone guilty of not being their best of not…

— Gary Shteyngart

“as a collective whole we ask for compassion and understanding but have a hard time handing it out when the time comes.”

— Meghan Quinn

“We hear our legislators proclaim unceasingly their respect for the individual conscience, though it be a religious conscience, and themselves anticlericals. All the same,…

— Antonin Sertillanges

“There seems to be a psychological law of inertia that bogs down every hopeful activist and subverts every revolution. When compassion and empathy fail,…

— Pat Califia

“We still don't know how to put morality ahead of politics, science, and economics. We are still incapable of understanding that the only genuine…

— Václav Havel

“We can have no sympathy with those who seek the power of government to advance their own personal interests or ambitions.”

— Woodrow Wilson

“How can we set up a system which encourages individuals to strive and excel, and yet which shows some compassion to the weak, and…

— David Brin

“While we keep legislating for our own interests the country will not move forward.”

— Victor Bello Accioly

“No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.”

— Woodrow Wilson

“Perhaps our country is flawed, but we cannot deny its strength. My fear is that, without change, that strength will become stagnate. And I…

— Kiera Cass