Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There are various kinds of savagery: emotional, spiritual, economic, and cultural savagery.
We, as human beings, have the capacity for extreme cruelty.
May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.
I have empathy; I am humane. I understand human misery.
Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.
No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim.
Compassion is contempt with a human face.
It's in our ability to selectively engage and disengage our moral standards, and it helps explain how people can be barbarically cruel in one moment and compassionate the next.
Compassion has enemies, and those enemies are things like pity, moral outrage, fear.
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