Jay-Z (Shawn Corey Carter) Quotes

How could I be out there and not do anything?

Jay-Z

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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

• One thing everyone seems to agree on is that Republicans face a perceived compassion deficit.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Compassion
  • Face
  • Everyone

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

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Together
  • Knowledge
  • Justice

• The genuine priest always feels something higher than compassion.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Always
  • Compassion
  • Genuine

• 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

• AIDS is a horrible disease, and the people who catch it deserve compassion.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • People
  • Compassion
  • Deserve

• For a lot of people, Superman is and has always been America's hero. He stands for what we believe is the best within us: limitless strength tempered by compassion, that can bear adversity and emerge stronger on the other side. He stands for what we all feel we would like to be able to stand for, when standing is hardest.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • People
  • Believe
  • America

• Writing about a person whose struggle you wish you could solve is an act of compassion and also, frankly, opportunism.

  

  Karen Bender
  • Writing
  • Wish
  • Struggle

• Some people seem to see compassion as being mushy.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • People
  • See
  • Compassion

• Compassion is not a popular virtue.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Popular
  • Compassion
  • Virtue

• The reduction in compassion that happens when we're all behind computer screens is not good for the world.

  

  Sam Altman
  • World
  • Good
  • Compassion

• 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

• You have to take strength from the people that love you and the people that love Barbara and the huge number of expressions of sympathy and compassion and support. That has been extremely moving.

  

  Ted Olson
  • People
  • Love
  • Support

• We all, I think, believe in compassion. If you look at all the world religions, all the main world religions, you'll find within them some teaching concerning compassion.

  

  Jackie Tabick
  • World
  • Believe
  • Compassion

• Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the true test of spirituality. But there have always have been those who'd rather put easier goals, like doctrine conformity, in place.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Life
  • True
  • Religious

• If the Reddit community cannot learn to balance authenticity and compassion, it may be a great website, but it will never be a truly great community.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Great
  • May
  • Community

• Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Compassion
  • Kindness

• My dad's a beautiful man, but like a lot of Mexican men, or men in general, a lot of men have a problem with the balance of masculinity and femininity - intuition and compassion and tenderness - and get overboard with the macho thing. It took him a while to become more, I would say, conscious, evolved.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Men
  • Beautiful
  • Man

• We should willingly take risks in supporting new projects. The tendency is to play it safe when funding is low, but we need to remember that the greatest risks have the greatest payoffs.

  

  Jerome Isaac Friedman
  • Remember

• I think if you work as an actress and are supposed as a character to be in love with some actor, then to some extent you do have to be in love with him.

  

  Dorothy Stratten
  • Work
  • Character

• At the end of the day, whether it's on film or on stage or for a crowd of however many at Kenwood House, my job is to make sure people have a good time and come away with a feeling and a story.

  

  Jessie Buckley
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• You are not ready to accept the fact that you have to give up. A complete and total 'surrender'.

  

  U.G. Krishnamurti
  • Up

• How could I be out there and not do anything?

  

  Jay-Z
  • Compassion
  • Live Life