Compassion quotes

“- Will Graham: This started from an abused kid, a battered infant. There's something terrible about...
- Jack Crawford: What are you, sympathizing with this guy?
- Will Graham: Absolutely. My heart bleeds for him, as a child. Someone took a kid and manufactured a monster. At the same time, as an adult, he's irredeemable.”

William Petersen - Will Graham
Dennis Farina - Jack Crawford

“It is the justice of peace and compassion. The justices desire to bring people together, not to drive them apart.”
Aletta Bezuidenhout - Elsa Malan

“- Scar: Sarabi why put yourself through this, all you have to do is be my queen. Your suffering from what a memory of a life you once knew, a king you once loved. I tried to make you understand what a true king can be.
- Sarabi: Scar, a true kings power is his compassion.
- Scar: I am ten times the king Mufasa was!
- Sarabi: You are nothing...” (continue)(continue reading)
Chiwetel Ejiofor - Scar
Alfre Woodard - Sarabi

“You have such a gift for life, Lucilla. But I think you ask too much of it. Learn to pity. Learn to have compassion. For yourself, too. Pity and compassion for yourself.”
Alec Guinness - Marcus Aurelius

“All I'm saying is that until we understand that our enemies are also human beings we will never defeat them. Yes, they are bad guys, but that is what they do, not who they are.”
Steve Carrell - Maxwell Smart

“They're giving him the cold shoulder. Poor little guy. There he goes, without a friend in the world. Nobody to turn to.”

Edward Brophy - Timothy Q. Mouse

“Wisdom, composed of knowledge, judgment, and compassion.”
Corbin Allred - Tee

“Any religion without love and compassion is false! It's a lie!”
Peter Horton - Burt

“He kind of needs someone with him tonight. I don't want to leave him by himself. He had tears in his eyes when he came over tonight. Can you imagine that big, strong guy crying?”

Kerri Green - Maggie

“They, er, sent a copy of the Queen's speech. Might want to scrape the frost off it first... Oh, I phoned them with a couple of suggestions, to make it sound like it came from a human being.”
Mark Bazeley - Alastair Campbell

“You are strong, passionate, and loyal to your fault. These are the merits of a great leader as well, but only when tempered with compassion and humility.”

Mako - Splinter

“If you can't have compassion for yourself, how you gonna have it for others?”

Tim Post - Peter

“- Raoul: Show some compassion.
- The Phantom: The world showed no compassion to me!”
Patrick Wilson - Raoul
Gerard Butler - The Phantom

“Attachment is forbidden. Possession is forbidden. Compassion, which I would define as unconditional love, is essential to a Jedi's life. So you might say, that we are encouraged to love.”
Hayden Christensen - Anakin Skywalker

- Marion: Don't you think it would be better if you referred to "it" as "him"?
- Loomis: If you say so.
- Marion: Your compassion's overwhelming, Doctor.

Nancy Stephens - Marion
Donald Pleasence - Loomis

“Do you really think that any of your predecessors would've dropped everything and gone up to London because a bunch of hysterics carrying candles needed help with their grief?”

Sylvia Syms - Queen Mother

“Don't take a sentimental attitude toward the poor. The poor are the poor. One is sorry for them, but there it is.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Henry Wilcox

“- Ducard: Your compassion is a weakness your enemies will not share.
- Bruce Wayne: That's why it's so important. It separates us from them.”
Liam Neeson - Ducard
Christian Bale - Bruce Wayne

“Many mistakes have been made, so be ruthless. Life never forgives weakness. This so called humanity... is just priests' drivel. Compassion is a primal sin. Compassion for the weak is a betrayal of nature.”
Bruno Ganz - Adolf Hitler

“- Jamie Sullivan: Without suffering there would be no compassion.
- Landon Carter: Yeah, well tell that to those who suffer.”
Mandy Moore - Jamie Sullivan
Shane West - Landon Carter

“- The Bride: You can relax for now. I'm not going to murder you in front of your child, okay?
- Vernita Green: That's being more rational than Bill led me to believe you were capable of.
- The Bride: It's mercy, compassion, and forgiveness I lack. Not rationality.”
Uma Thurman - The Bride
Vivica A. Fox - Vernita Green

“- Malcolm Crowe: Vincent Gray. I do remember you. Quiet, very smart, compassionate. Unusually compassionate.
- Vincent Gray: You forgot cursed.”
Bruce Willis - Dr. Malcolm Crowe
Donnie Wahlberg - Vincent Grey

“- Beth Logan: You bastard! Where's your compassion?
- Stathis Borans: I had to give it up; it cost me an arm and a leg!
- Martin Brundle: It cost you more than that.”
Daphne Zuniga - Beth Logan
John Getz - Stathis Borans
Eric Stoltz - Martin Brundle

“- Bob Hauk: Plissken, if you get back in that glider and fly back here without the tape or the President, I'll shoot you down myself! You try to climb out, I'll burn you off the wall! Do you understand that, Plissken?
- Snake Plissken: [beat] A little human compassion.”
Lee Van Cleef - Hauk
Kurt Russell - Snake Plissken

“- Adrienne Pargiter: You don't hate them do you?
- Margaret Drummond: No.
- Adrienne Pargiter: Why not?
- Margaret Drummond: I've tried, but I can't bring myself to hate people. The worse they behave, the sorrier I feel for them.”

Glenn Close - Adrienne Pargiter
Pauline Collins - Margaret Drummond