"If we weep for all the deaths..." - Quote by Mahatma Gandhi
If we weep for all the deaths in our country, the tears in our eyes would never dry.
More by Mahatma Gandhi
“The day a woman can walk freely on the roads at night, that day we can say that India has achieved independence”
“I must not serve a distant neighbour at the expense of the nearest.”
“The only way by which you and I can wean orthodox Hindus from their bigotry is by patient argument and correct conduct.”
More on Suffering
“People believe a man is in distress because his loved one dies in one day. But his real pain is less futile: it is that he finds out that sadness too does not last. Even pain has no meaning.”
“I used to suffer particularly because the poor animals must endure so much pain and want. The sight of an old, limping horse being dragged along by one man while another man struck him witha stick he was being driven to the Colmar slaughterhouse - haunted me for weeks.”
“Indeed, sir, he that sleeps feels not the toothache; but a man that were to sleep your sleep, and a hangman to help him to bed, I think he would change places with his officer; for look you, sir, you know not which way you shall go.”
More on Empathy
“One evening at Chequers the film was Oliver Twist. Rufus, as usual, had the best seat in the house, on his master's lap. At the point when Bill Sikes was about to drown his dog to put the police off his track, Churchill covered Rufus's eyes with his hand. He said, "Don't look now, dear. I'll tell you about it afterwards."”
“We begin from the recognition that all beings cherish happiness and do not want suffering. It then becomes both morally wrong and pragmatically unwise to pursue only one's own happiness oblivious to the feelings and aspirations of all others who surround us as members of the same human family. The wiser course is to think of others when pursuing our own happiness.”
“If you want to know me, look inside your heart.”