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Compassion Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi
- It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of God, the Compassionate, if we in turn will not practice elementary compassion…
- The strength to kill is not essential for self-defense; one ought to have the strength to die. When a man is fully ready to die,…
- It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of…
- There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.
- If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have…
- Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.
- We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?
- Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.
- The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
- Compassion is a muscle that gets stronger with use.
- We should be able to refuse to live if the price of living be the torture of sentient beings.
- Roving dogs do not indicate the civilisation or compassion of the society. They betray on the country the ignorance and lethargy of its members.
- Nonviolence means an ocean of compassion. It means shedding from us every trace of ill will for others. It does not mean abjectness or timidity,…
More Compassion Quotes
- Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day. — Karen Armstrong
- Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the… — Karen Armstrong
- If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life. — Karen Armstrong
- Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion… — Karen Armstrong
- Compassion is the key in Islam and Buddhism and Judaism and Christianity. They are profoundly similar. — Karen Armstrong
- If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men… — Francis of Assisi
- Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a… — Sri Aurobindo
- My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants; so much… — Teresa of Avila
- People confuse compassion with government being compassionate with other people's money versus people being compassionate with their own money. — Michele Bachmann
- Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. — James M. Barrie
- If Republicans are aiming for the heart, for compassion, the last thing they should do is abandon the sanctity of life. Instead,… — Gary Bauer
- One thing everyone seems to agree on is that Republicans face a perceived compassion deficit. — Gary Bauer