compassion Quotes

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

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

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.

Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

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

Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.