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Being a good neighbour is about compassion, which is as warm-blooded as justice is cool-headed.

— Julian Baggini

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Compassion has enemies, and those enemies are things like pity, moral outrage, fear.

— Joan Halifax

A bad neighbor is as great a calamity as a good one is a great advantage.

— Hesiod

When strong, be merciful, if you would have the respect, not the fear of your neighbors.

— Chilon

In Scotland over many years we have cultivated through our justice system what I hope can be described as a 'culture of compassion.' On the other hand, there still exists in many parts of the U.S., if not nationally, an attitude towards the concept of justice which can only be described as a 'culture of vengeance.'

— Keith O'Brien

Anything that prevents you from being friendly, a good neighbour, is a terror tactic.

— Richard Stallman

Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.

— Frederick Buechner

I often write about nonreligious people, and I try to find situations where their sense of humanity is restored or discovered. I think you can be a good person in many ways. And I think you often have to be careful that prayer can seem superficial, because it's a very complicated thing to love your neighbor as yourself.

— Horton Foote

To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.

— John Locke

Compassion is no substitute for justice.

— Rush Limbaugh

✗Opposing Perspectives

Neighbors are competitors instead of partners, suspicious instead of trustful, indifferent instead of helpful, cold instead of loving, greedy instead of generous. We no longer consider ourselves living in neighborhoods, but only as living next to 'hoods.'

— Mother Angelica