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If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.

Another essential to a universal and durable peace is social justice.

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.'

We need the compassion and the courage to change the conditions that support our suffering. Those conditions are things like ignorance, bitterness, negligence, clinging, and holding on.

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

Civility is perhaps a quaint notion but civility in Parliament is something we should always strive to uphold.

A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.

Compassion is no substitute for justice.

Justice is the foremost virtue of the civilizing races. It subdues the barbarous nations, while injustice arouses the weakest.

We are all trying to make it the best way we know how, so when we look at each other as individuals and nations, we should do so with compassion.