Compassion is not a popular virtue.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I think compassion is an important quality in people in general.
Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.
Compassion is no substitute for justice.
Compassion is the basis of morality.
Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
Compassion has enemies, and those enemies are things like pity, moral outrage, fear.
Compassion is a two way street.
The human capacity for compassion is not a reflex that is triggered automatically by the presence of another living thing.
A compassionate mind is very difficult to cultivate because compassion demands a sense of equality between all living beings.
Compassion is contempt with a human face.