Society needs both justice and compassion, a head and a heart, if it is to be civilised. - Julian Baggini - Quotesmemo.com

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When your fear touches someone's pain it becomes pity; when your love touches someone's pain, it becomes compassion. To train in compassion, then, is to know all beings are the same and suffer in similar ways, to honor all those who suffer, and to know you are neither separate from nor superior to anyone.

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Julian Baggini

Society needs both justice and compassion, a head and a heart, if it is to be civilised.

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