Christine Caine Quotes

Compassion is never compassion until you cross the street and go do something about it.

Christine Caine

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• If we don't change from a world society that worships money and power to one that worships compassion and generosity, I think we'll be extinct by mid-century. I don't say that as an alarmist or as a pessimist.

  

  Patch Adams
  • World
  • Money
  • Power

• Let us democratise knowledge. Let us universalise justice. Together, let us globalise compassion!

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Together
  • Knowledge
  • Justice

• When we watch stories, we learn empathy, we learn compassion, and hopefully we achieve some sort of understanding.

  

  Gavin Hood
  • Understanding
  • Learn
  • Compassion

• The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Good
  • Strong
  • Compassion

• Compassion is not a popular virtue.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Popular
  • Compassion
  • Virtue

• Positive social emotions like compassion and empathy are generally good for us, and we want to encourage them. But do we know how to most reliably raise children to care about the suffering of other people? I'm not sure we do.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Good
  • Children

• My parents' selfless affection and dedication nourished and prepared me to receive the love of my guru or spiritual father, Swami Prabhupada. My parents prepared the soil in which my guru sowed the seeds of his compassion.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • Parents
  • Compassion
  • Affection

• When one has love for God, one doesn't feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relatives and friends. One retains only compassion for them.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • God
  • Love
  • Compassion

• Love of God and compassion and empathy leads you to a very glorious place- science leads you to killing people.

  

  Ben Stein
  • People
  • God
  • Science

• Lots of human-rights tragedies deserve concerts, but there's something extra with Tibet. It's a spiritual culture, a country rooted in humility and compassion. And among artists, there's a lot of Buddhists, people who want an alternative to basic Christianity, which doesn't offer much.

  

  Ed Kowalczyk
  • People
  • Country
  • Culture

• My parents taught me honesty, truth, compassion, kindness and how to care for people. Also, they encouraged me to take risks, to boldly go. They taught me that the greatest danger in life is not taking the adventure.

  

  Brian Blessed
  • People
  • Life
  • Truth

• I feel compassion is so important to develop in ourselves. It's one of the most important elements of being a human being.

  

  Ellen Burstyn
  • Important
  • Compassion

• Conservatives understand that the power that binds our republic together is fierce independence held high on the shoulders of compassion.

  

  Allen West
  • Power
  • Together
  • High

• Becoming chronically ill has definitely given me a greater understanding of human nature, and I've learned to accept people's lack of long-term compassion for others while they live their busy lives.

  

  Yolanda Hadid
  • People
  • Long
  • Live

• Most people are not good people. In business, in art, in almost every 'world' I've been in, most people I've meet are pretty gray to black. It takes practice to be the person who is a source of compassion and honesty.

  

  James Altucher
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• My Lords temporal, today is the day to rise up against the regiment of Lords spiritual and proclaim the values of enlightenment, compassion and common sense.

  

  Polly Toynbee
  • Up
  • Today
  • Spiritual

• I am a mother now, and I'm a mother to a son, and I want him to go into the world a feminist. I want him to go into the world with compassion for humanity.

  

  Karyn Kusama
  • World
  • Mother
  • Humanity

• The Minnesota spirit of compassion and help for people in need has moved countless Minnesotans to step forward to provide relief for the survivors of Hurricane Katrina.

  

  Jim Ramstad
  • People
  • Help
  • Compassion

• I've learned that courage and compassion are two sides of the same coin, and that every warrior, every humanitarian, every citizen is built to live with both. In fact, to win a war, to create peace, to save a life, or just to live a good life requires of us - of every one of us - that we be both good and strong.

  

  Eric Greitens
  • Compassion
  • Warrior
  • Humanitarian

• I did not intend to stay; I had no experience in the United States - I may have been here less than 24 hours - but I knew I would never get inside there. And 'there' not being America necessarily, but that harmonious mode of living that some people are lucky enough to have in this country.

  

  Aleksandar Hemon
  • People
  • Country
  • May

• The 150th anniversary of Penn State will highlight what is important and good about this distinguished institution and the fine people and research that it produces.

  

  Don Sherwood
  • People
  • Good
  • Important

• After the Meiji restoration in 1868, Japan adopted an expansionist and colonial attitude towards its neighbours. It sought to identify itself with the West and looked down upon the Asian continent as backward and inferior. For most of the next 70 years, Japan was at war, mainly with its neighbours.

  

  Martin Jacques
  • War
  • Attitude

• I'll continue to try to make changes to better improve the team.

  

  Isaiah Thomas
  • Team
  • Changes
  • Improve

• Compassion is never compassion until you cross the street and go do something about it.

  

  Christine Caine
  • Compassion
  • Streets
  • Crosses