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Hinduism Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

104 Hinduism quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

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Gandhi’s verses stress that love and tolerance must bridge religious divides, even when prejudices linger. He argues that every faith holds some truth yet also flaws, urging believers to see beyond dogma. The quotes also condemn untouchability, calling it a sin that contradicts Hinduism’s claim of universal brotherhood.

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My Hindu instinct tells me that all religions are more or less true.

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Cow preservation is an article of faith in Hinduism.

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Yes I am, I am also a Muslim, a Christian, a Buddhist, and a Jew.

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Hinduism has sinned in giving sanction to untouchability.

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Every Hindu boy and girl should possess sound Samskrit learning.

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Dining and marriage restrictions stunt Hindu society.

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The Vedas are as indefinable as God and Hinduism.

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Idolatry is permissible in Hinduism when it sub serves an ideal.

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No stone should be left unturned to bring home to the family members that untouchability is a sin and a blot on…

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Hindus, if they want unity among different races, must have the courage to trust the minorities.

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All the four stages in a man's life are devised by the seers in Hinduism for imposing discipline and self-restraint.

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If untouchability is an integral part of Hinduism, the latter is a spent bullet.

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The sacred thread and the tuft of hair without a pure heart and a spirit of toleration do not make a Hindu.

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We Hindus and Mohamedans would have to blame our folly rather than the English, if we allowed them to put us asunder.

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Men like me feel that untouchability is no integral part of Hinduism, it is an excrescence.

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My life is dedicated to the service of Indians through the religion of nonviolence which I believe to be the root of…

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If untouchability lives, Hinduism perishes and even India perishes, but if untouchability is eradicated from the Hindu heart, root and branch, then…

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I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the…

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I recall having read, at the brothers' instance, Madame Blavatsky's Key to Theosophy. This book stimulated in me the desire to read…

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I must rebel against the idea that millions of Indians, who were Hindus, the other day, changed their nationality on adopting Islam…

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Is the God of the Mahometan different from the God of the Hindu? Religions are different roads converging to the same point.…

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I call myself a Sanatani Eternal Hindu, because I believe in the Vedas, the Upanishads, the Puranas, and all that goes by…

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Hinduism is a relentless pursuit of Truth. "Truth is God" and if today it has become moribund, inactive, irresponsive to growth, it…

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Though philosophical Hinduism has no other god but God, it cannot be denied that practical Hinduism is not so emphatically uncompromising as…

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It is impossible for me to reconcile myself to the idea of conversion after the style that goes on in India and…

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Hinduism has made marvelous discoveries in things of religion, of the spirit, of the soul. We have no eye for these great…

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Complete non-violence is complete absence of ill-will against all that lives. It therefore embraces even sub-human life, not excluding noxious insects and…

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I came to the conclusion long ago that all religions were true and that also that all had some error in them,…

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Hinduism is a living organism liable to growth and decay subject to the laws of Nature. One and indivisible at the root,…

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If I were asked to define the Hindu creed, I should simply say: Search after truth through non-violent means. A man may…

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Harijan service is a duty the caste Hindus owe to themselves.

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I would far rather that Hinduism died than that untouchability lived.

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I am a Christian and a Hindu and a Muslim and a Jew.

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Cow protection is the gift of Hinduism to the world.

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Hinduism is not a codified religion.

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The central fact of Hinduism is cow protection.

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I love Christianity, Islam and many other faiths - through Hinduism.

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I am a Hindu because it is Hinduism which makes the world worth living. I am a Hindu hence I Love not…

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To remove untouchability is a penance that caste Hindus owe to Hinduism and to themselves.

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In Hinduism we have got an admirable foot-rule to measure every shastra and every rule of conduct, and that is truth.

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I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death…

Devotion required by the Gita is no soft-hearted effusiveness.

No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation.

So long as we fear the outside world, we must cease to think of Swaraj.

I do not want a kingdom, or heaven; what I want is to remove the trouble of the oppressed, the poor, and the needy.

Religions are not for separating men from one another, they are meant to bind them.

I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it.

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“Where there is life.”

If it was wrong to seek God in a stone, how was it right to seek Him in a book called the Gita, the…

The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular.

Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison.

My motto is "Unite now, today if you can; fight if you must. But in every case avoid British intervention."

I have no disciples, being myself an aspirant after discipleship and in search of a guru.

Man becomes not the lord and master of all creation but he is its servant.