Quotes About Compassion

Ahimsa is nothing if not a well-balanced, exquisite consideration for one's neighbour, and an idle man is wanting in that elementary consideration.

Cow-slaughter and man-slaughter are in my opinion two sides of the same coin.

God cannot be so cruel and unjust as to make the distinctions of high and low between man and man, and woman and woman.

Man's triumph will consist in substituting the struggle for existence by a struggle for mutual service.

I believe in conversion of mankind, not its destruction.

Man does not live by destruction.

No religion taught man to kill fellowmen because he held different opinions or was of another religion.

Nonviolence has come among men and it will live. It is the harbinger of the peace of the world.

We do want to drive out the beast in man, but we do not want on that account to emasculate him.

To a starving man, God can only appear in the form of bread.

I can no more preach nonviolence to a cowardly man than I can tempt a blind man to enjoy healthy scenes.

Himsa does not need to be taught, Man as animal is violent, but as spirit is nonviolent.

No one should advocate any peaceful suffering to black people, unless the black - white man is going to practice the same kind of peaceful suffering.

Men exist for each other. Then either improve them, or put up with them.

A homeless man standing at the off-ramp: the question in these moments isn't whether Jesus is in Him, but in me.

Kindness is a language heard by deaf men and felt by blind men.

All I care to know about a man is that he is a human being... he can't be any worse.

I believe I have no prejudices whatsoever. All I need to know is that a man is a member of the human race. That's bad enough for me.

In all my travels the thing that has impressed me the most is the universal brotherhood of man-what there is of it.

I have not hated the man, but his faults.

As long as there is poverty in this world, no man can be totally rich even if he has a billion dollars.

It cannot, indeed, be denied, that a good man is more worthy of love than a bad one.

To have peace in the world, men & nations must embrace the nonviolent assertion that ends and means must cohere.

Love is creative, understanding goodwill for all men. It is the refusal to defeat any individual.