Our Leaders Are Cruel Because Only Those Willing To Be Inordinately Cruel And Remorseless Can Hold Positions Of Leadership In The Foreign Policy Establishment. People Capable Of Expressing A Full Human Measure Of Compassion And Empathy Toward Faraway Powerless Strangers Do Not Become President Of The United States, Or Vice President, Or Secretary Of State, Or National Security Adviser Or Secretary Of The Treasury. Nor Do They Want To.
When You Do A Good Turn You Feel Rich, Even If You Are Broke.
The Students [of The 60's] Substituted Conspicuous Compassion For Their Parents' Conspicuous Consumption.
This Music Business Can Suck All The Love Out Of You, All The Compassion For People - You Can Start To Think You're Better Than Them. But I Want To Continue To Let People Know That I'm No Better And No Worse, I'm Just Like You.
People Keep Repeating That The Main Things Are Love And Compassion. Certainly Love And Compassion Are The Main Things, But It Takes Knowledge To Make Love And Compassion Fruitful. ... It Takes Just A Second To Say 'love'. But To Acquire Knowledge For The Well-being And Blessing Of Humanity Requires An Eternity.
Art Civilizes Us And It Connects Us And Activates Us. And So It's Really Important To Connect With Compassion, With Stories About People Who Are Different From Us.
A Really Great Man Is Known By Three Signs: Generosity In The Design, Humanity In The Execution, Moderation In Success.
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.
You Know, Money Will Never Save Anyone. Compassion Can Save Someone, Love Can Save Someone, Money Will Never Save Anyone. And As Long As The Entire Society Will Put Money First... Money Should Be Like Third Or Fourth Or Fifth, I'm Not Saying Lets Get Rid Of Money, But How Can We Put Money As Number One? As The Only Value, Like If You Are Rich, You're Famous You Go Vip, Why? It's Just Insane, The Way We've Transformed The Society.
Want Of Imagination Makes Things Unreal Enough To Be Destroyed. By Imagination I Mean Knowledge And Love. I Mean Compassion. People Of Power Kill Children, The Old Send The Young To Die, Because They Have No Imagination. They Have Power. Can You Have Power And Imagination At The Same Time? Can You Kill People You Don’t Know And Have Compassion For Them At The Same Time?
