Compassion is contempt with a human face.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Compassion has enemies, and those enemies are things like pity, moral outrage, fear.
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.
The human capacity for compassion is not a reflex that is triggered automatically by the presence of another living thing.
Compassion doesn't, of course, mean feeling sorry for people, or pity, which is how the word has become emasculated in a way.
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.
This idea of compassion comes to us because we're made in the image of God, who is ultimately the compassionate one.
Compassion is loving others enough to say or do what is appropriate from an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome.
Compassion is not a popular virtue.
Compassion is a two way street.
Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.