Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Compassion

• 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 true religion. The other is mere business.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Friendship, Wise

  Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (1965). “Gandhi on Non-violence”, p.62, New Directions Publishing

• The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Wise, Prayer, Powerful

• The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Wisdom, Peace, Kindness

• 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 to begin with the children.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Children, Real

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

• There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Peace, Heart

• Compassion is a muscle that gets stronger with use.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Compassion, Stronger, Use

• Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Peace, Heart

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.152, Courier Corporation

• I want to realize brotherhood or identity not merely with the beings called human, but I want to realize identity with all life, even with such things as crawl upon earth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Life, Nature, Humility

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.114, A&C Black

• Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Heart, Compassion

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.197, Tara Publishing

• 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 toward our fellow creatures.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Prayer, Animal, Blessing

• 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, or fleeing in fear. It means, on the contrary, firmness of mind and courage, a resolute spirit.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Ocean, Mean, Compassion

  Mahatma Gandhi (1986). “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Civilization, Politics and Religion”, Clarendon Press

• Roving dogs do not indicate the civilisation or compassion of the society. They betray on the country the ignorance and lethargy of its members.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Country, Dog, Ignorance

  Mahatma Gandhi (1927). “Young India, 1924-1926”

• We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Heart, Acceptance

  Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “All Religions are True”

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Death, Heart, Men

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.93, A&C Black

• We should be able to refuse to live if the price of living be the torture of sentient beings.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Compassion, Able, Should

  Mahatma Gandhi (1966). “Collected Works”

• 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, he will not even desire to offer violence. Indeed, I may put it down as a self-evident proposition that the desire to kill is in inverse proportion to the desire to die. And history is replete with instances of men who by dying with courage and compassion on their lips converted the hearts of their violent opponents.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Heart, Men, Compassion

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