Ultracompassion Quotes & Sayings

We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it. It must be done for itself, for the beauty of science, and then there is always the chance that a scientific discovery may become like the radium a benefit for mankind. — Marie Curie

You can see the same immorality or amorality in the Christian view of guilt and punishment. There are only two texts, both of them extreme and mutually contradictory. The Old Testament injunction is the one to exact an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth (it occurs in a passage of perfectly demented detail about the exact rules governing mutual ox-goring; you should look it up in its context (Exodus 21). The second is from the Gospels and says that only those without sin should cast the first stone. The first is a moral basis for capital punishment and other barbarities; the second is so relativistic and "nonjudgmental" that it would not allow the prosecution of Charles Manson. Our few notions of justice have had to evolve despite these absurd codes of ultra vindictiveness and ultracompassion. — Christopher Hitchens

One must lose one's life in order to save it. — Federico Mangahas

How long do you want me? he asked.
How long can I have you? I thought. — Michelle Hodkin

I was miserable in West Side Story. They really miscast me. I came from the Midwest; what they really needed was a guy that was street smart. The first time I saw the movie, I had to walk out. I looked like the biggest fruit that ever walked on to film. My character was so weak. — Richard Beymer

It's a good thing when you don't dare do something if you don't think it's right. But it's not good when you think something's not right because you don't dare do it. — Sigrid Undset

Shit, the fun's over. The bad guys called the cops." -Micah — Kampar

I'm very mature for my age, but I'm also innocent in a lot of ways. — Kirsten Dunst

I believe that what it is I have been called to do will make itself known when I have made myself ready. — Jan Phillips

Feels like I've known him since before he got to the world - longer than he knew himself, truthfully. Seems like we'd been friends really ... Somewhere before life on earth ... — Jacqueline Woodson

The idea of narcissism, essentially, is and will be accepted as a virtue. — Nicolas Winding Refn

This Jacoby character, regardless of how dreamy he may appear, is aiding and abetting my captivity. Not exactly the kind of guy you want to bring home to meet mom. — Erica Cope

Indeed, for the last three years, he had carefully avoided her, as a result of the natural cowardice so characteristic of the stronger sex ... — Gustave Flaubert

Know who you are, know your mission and educate yourself in your mission field — Sunday Adelaja

Military life is hard, even cruel - especially for the kids. — Tucker Elliot

Oh God, friend breakups are the worst. The worst! And I've been through it. Basically, if you're over the age of 5, you've been through friend breakups. — Melissa Rivers