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Humans Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

85 Humans quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

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All religions are like flowers from one garden, each beautiful yet imperfect. Mahatma Gandhi points out that strength to endure hardship comes from God, and that prayer lifts any human effort. He also reminds us that hurting one person harms the whole world, because we all share the same divine spark.

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Some form of common worship and a common place of worship appear to be a human necessity.

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I refuse to believe that the tendency of human nature is always downward.

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Love is the humblest yet the most powerful force that the human being has.

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The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane.

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No human being is so bad as to be beyond redemption.

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Our greatest ability as humans is not to change the world; but to change ourselves.

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Violence is a concession to human weakness, satyagraha is an obligation.

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Dignity of human nature requires that we must face the storms of life.

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It is beneath human dignity to lose one's individuality and become a mere cog in the machine.

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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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We cry for cow protection in the name of religion, but we refuse protection to the human cow in the shape of…

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If Euclid's point, though incapable of being drawn by any human agency, has an imperishable value, my picture has its own for…

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Our struggle does not end so long as there is a single human being considered untouchable on account of his birth.

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Human nature will find itself only when it fully realizes that to be human it has to cease to be beastly or…

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All religions teach that two opposite forces act upon us and the human endeavour consists in a series of eternal rejections and…

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With me the connection between the cosmic phenomena and human behaviour is a living faith that draws me nearer to God, humbles…

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My work will be finished if I succeed in carrying conviction to the human family that every man or woman, however weak…

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Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their…

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Human language can but imperfectly describe God's ways. I am sensible of the fact that they are indescribable and inscrutable. But if…

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For me patriotism is the sme as humanity. I am patriotic because I am human and humane. It is not exclusive. I…

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Intellect takes us along in the battle of life to a certain limit, but at the crucial moment it fails us. Faith…

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Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one…

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... when all violence subsides in the human heart, the state which remains is love. It is not something we have to…

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After long study and experience, I have come to the conclusion that (1) all religions are true; (2) all religions have some…

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H. G. Wells was not the only one to mention Churchill and Hitler in the same breath: "Churchill and Hitler are striving…

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I am not conscious of a single experience throughout my three months' stay in England and Europe that made me feel that…

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Religions are different roads converging on the same point. What does it matter that we take different roads so long as we…

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It is quite proper to resist and attack a system, but to resist and attack its author is tantamount to resisting and…

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I am not fighting machinery as such, but the madness of thinking that machinery saves labor. Men save labor until thousands of…

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The earth has everything for all human needs, but nothing for his greed.

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Human language can but imperfectly describe God's ways.

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Labour has its unique place in a cultured human family.

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To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.

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No one should dogmatize about the capacity of human nature for degradation or exaltation.

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A poet is one who can call forth the good latent in the human beast.

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The cow is the purest type of sub-human life.

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The khadi spirit means fellow-feeling with every human being on earth.

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Cow protection to me is one of the most wonderful phenomena in the human evolution.

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The human body is meant solely for service, never for indulgence.

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Human society is a ceaseless growth, and unfoldment in terms of spirituality.

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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…

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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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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.