All True Religion Starts From Compassion.

(Some kind souls came to seek compassion for others at my door.)

There is no substitute for a direct concern for other people as the basis of morality.

- Thomas Nagel


Being religious without being compassionate is just following a ritual.

- Ghostwise

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Compassion is the desire that moves the individual self to widen the scope of its self-concern to embrace the whole of the universal self.

- Arnold Toynbee


If you've compassion, rest assure. You've feelings for others beside yourself.

- Ghostwise

The Government Is A Temporary Servant Of The People.

(The early results of the Malaysian election showed a strong swing to the opposition. The people is expressing their dissatisfaction with the corruption in the country. This is one of the most significant landmark of Malaysian politics. Whoever wins know that they can no longer ignore the voices of the people.)

It was once said that the moral test of Government is how that Government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.

- Hubert H. Humphrey


When the government caters only to the rich and powerful, then it is a government that has lost its moral right to govern.

- Ghostwise

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The government is merely a servant -- merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.

- Mark Twain


When a government forgets that it is the servant of the people, it is time to change that government.

- Ghostwise