Mahatma Gandhi Quotes about Compassion

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Compassion is a muscle that gets stronger with use.

Compassion is a muscle that gets stronger with use.

Compassion, Stronger, Use

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

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

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”

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