I learned about compassion.

And I perceive you feel the dint of pity.

Only pity.

I am rejoicing in my heart without a shred of pity... without a shred of regret, watching you go with glory in my heart!

love, care, compassion, appreciation, those kind of emotions long, long ago associated with this word heart.

From pity?

More's the pity.

Sympathy?

So mean and petty.

The rich neglect the poor.

And compassion arise in our heart and when compassion arise in our heart we can forget, we can forgive.

Robert Wright The evolution of compassion

But an abundance of pity alone will not help.

I took you in out of pity.

Heart attacks because I want pity.

By depriving me of the right to pity her,

Poor oil rich Russia.

It opens the channels for compassion.

Sym... Sympathy for Young goon?

It's not our pity that they need.

So she's struck with pity.

It's a pretty pathetic list.

It appeals to pity. It appeals to something called charity.

More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness.

How kind you might have been

It's charity. I'm begging you.

Would it be kindness to bring her backto remembrance and shame?

It's a mistake to confuse pity with love.

OK so, a quick natural history, first of compassion.

We would decide to establish this charter of compassion.

They tend to play on our pity a lot, okay?

And not having any sense of guilt or sympathy.

Barabbas, listen to me. For pity's sake believe me.

And the basic idea of kin selection is that, if an animal feels compassion for a close relative, and this compassion leads the animal to help the relative, then, in the end, the compassion actually winds up helping the genes underlying the compassion itself.

Indeed, Argentina's case is pathetic.

Pity, my dear boy, is a diseased variety of sentimentality.

All you can feel now is mere pity.

Who needs pity more than a woman who's sinned?

I have spared your life, but not out of pity.

Compassion and human solidarity, which transcend state borders, will save the world.

And so, you wind up most easily extending compassion to friends and allies.

Including piety and sentiment, and stereotype and judgmentalism.

They're just relentless and obsessive about what they do.

I shall know that when I know where pity ends and love begins.

Don't lie to me, please. I'd rather have your scorn than pity.