“No matter how intelligent you are, you shouldn’t look down on people. No matter how rich you are, you shouldn’t treat others differently. No matter how powerful you are, you shouldn’t misuse them. Each individual, as members of a community, we must cooperate and try to solve the conflict. Compassion, this is the word of which everyone has to remind themselves. Throughout the centuries, humans were one of the most cruel, harsh animals on the Earth. There was time when they spilled blood without a reason. There was a time when a small gunfire drove many countries to the war. There was time when millions of innocent souls died by a single press of button. We overcame every single problems that we faced. But we are having greater conflict ahead. Now, it is time to make some changes with care, kindness and motivation. Compassion, this is what we need.”
Secular/Nonreligious/Agnostic/Atheist
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“To be compassionate is a choice and not an obligation, or a commandment, or a responsibility, or any other form of compulsion that can be imposed on man - a compulsion is what goes against the very essence of the nature of man, which is Freedom - the practice of which is through living in this world as a Free being, in thought and in action, as an individual with rights and choices open for him to make. The key thing to remember is that if you give him the opportunity to act on a purely innocent, clean, and compulsion-free base, man will be Compassionate, man will be Considerate, man will Help his fellow man, and man will be a Champion of the very ideas we have been taught to be against our nature. It is crucial to remember this, but quite simple to accomplish. We ought to trust man. We ought to trust in ourselves. Leave yourself truly free to act, and I believe that you can and will do what is Good.”
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“Compassion rooted in empathy implies a noble transaction between human beings, whereas a compassion based in pity establishes an imbalance of power and position. To pity another is to view the other’s situation disdainfully without necessarily being motivated to effect change for that person. To feel genuine Compassion is to apply will and action to the other’s situation creating activity to redress imbalances… A Compassionate Society is a sharing society, one the mass of humanity will have their genuine needs met. Bring it on.”
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“There is no simple expression of the Golden Rule. Versions consisting of words are always incomplete. Words always have spaces between them. Words always involve a process of translation and interpretation. An essence of the rule must include an acceptance that within self-awareness lies the possibility of finding common ground with others. In pursuing knowledge of oneself and knowledge of others, for the sake of creative harmony, let there always be doubt, always be love and in one’s deeds always compassion.”
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“Compassion springs from the recognition that I fall short of the model I have in my mind. This model incorporates ideas of equality and brotherhood; a vision of a forward-striving humanity. I want to be contributing to this forward move with all my abilities and help my less fortunate brother or sister to come along on that journey, even to the point that I may have to help carry the burden of the less capable. I see compassion as more than a noble emotion – as a rational choice to see everybody as worthy of my respect.”
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