Quotes About Compassion

The world is out of shapewhen there are hungry men.

Alas, the world has never known a sound social fabric, a fabric sound and clean to the core and kindly. For it has ever turned its back on Man.

History is replete with instances of men, who, by dying with courage and compassion on their lips converted the hearts of their violent opponents.

No man has ever been able to describe God fully. The same holds true of ahimsa.

God never made man that he may consider another man as untouchable.

The force generated by nonviolence is infinitely greater than the force of all the arms created by man's ingenuity.

It is the duty of men to love even those who injure them.

An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect.

Whatever my doubts, however heavy the burden, I feel that I must accept the task of helping to make this nation and this world a better place to live in - for all men, black and white alike.

Love is understanding, redemptive goodwill for all men, so that you love everybody.

The oppressed must never allow the conscience of the oppressor to slumber. Religion reminds every man that he is his brother's keeper.

The quickest way to create a boy or man who lacks compassion is to judge and shame his feelings.

No man can become a great leader of men unless he has the milk of human kindness in his own heart, and leads by suggestion and kindness, rather than by force.

I am a small man who wants to do big things for small people.

If the internal griefs of every man could be read, written on his forehead, how many who now excite envy would appear to be the objects of pity?

Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God's best gift to man.

No man can help another without helping himself.

It is a capital blunder; as you discover, when another man recites his charities.

A man is more than his failings.

Animals are neither gods nor fiends, but men in their way without the lust and greed of man.

Dear me, if men and women would only trust, understand, and help one another as my children do, what a capital place the world would be!

In the shadow of the atomic bomb it has become even more apparent that all men are, indeed, brothers.

Nothing is more condemnable than selfishness. A man who thinks of himself alone is the most unlucky person of all.

He was a lovely man in many ways. But he kept on insisting on forgiving me when there was nothing to forgive.