Lack Of Compassion Quotes

Our lack of compassion stems from our inability to see deeply into the nature of things.

The inability to forgive, that is the lack of compassion, is really nothing more than lack of knowledge.

Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.

It is lack of love for ourselves that inhibits our compassion toward others. If we make friends with ourselves, then there is no obstacle to opening our hearts and minds to others.

All the problems of the world - child labor, corruption - are symptoms of a spiritual disease: lack of compassion.

Of course the more you love the sinner the more you hate and make war on the sin, just as the more you love the person, the more you hate and kill the cancer cells that are killing the person. Compassion for cancer cells does not come from compassion for persons; it comes precisely from lack of compassion for persons.

Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.

If you do not feel the bitter cold inside you when you look at the poor trembling out of cold, it means you are lack of compassion; in other words, you are lack of everything!

To organize work in such a manner that it becomes meaningless, boring, stultifying, or nerve-racking for the worker would be little short of criminal; it would indicate a greater concern with goods than with people, an evil lack of compassion and a soul-destroying degree of attachment to the most primitive side of this worldly existence.

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.