--- title: "8 Affection Quotes By Mahatma Gandhi" description: "8 Affection quotes by Mahatma Gandhi. Plus more from Mahatma Gandhi and more Affection sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d1d/mahatma-gandhi-23_affection_my-only-sanction-is-the-love-and-affecti_41550.jpg" --- > [My only sanction is the love and affection in which you hold me. But it has its weaknesses, as it has its…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/my-only-sanction-is-the-love-and-affection-in-which-you-hold-me-but/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d1d/mahatma-gandhi-23_affection_my-only-sanction-is-the-love-and-affecti_41550.jpg) > [“You yourself as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve love and affection.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/you-yourself-as-much-as-anybody-in-the-entire-universe-deserve-love/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0f8/mahatma-gandhi-23_affection_you-yourself-as-much-as-anybody-in-the-e_785145.jpg) > [If one has affection for a person or a system, one should feel free to give the fullest expression to his disaffection…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/if-one-has-affection-for-a-person-or-a-system-one-should-feel-free-to/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9ee/mahatma-gandhi-23_affection_if-one-has-affection-for-a-person-or-a-s_788258.jpg) > [If you approached people with trust and affection you would have ten-fold trust and thousand-fold.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/if-you-approached-people-with-trust-and-affection-you-would-have-ten/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/28b/mahatma-gandhi-23_affection_if-you-approached-people-with-trust-and_1538672.jpg) > [Events that have happened during the past month have confirmed me in the opinion that the Imperial Government have acted in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/events-that-have-happened-during-the-past-month-have-confirmed-me-in/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d90/mahatma-gandhi-23_affection_events-that-have-happened-during-the-pas_1969687.jpg) > [I am not conscious of a single experience throughout my three months' stay in England and Europe that made me feel that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/i-am-not-conscious-of-a-single-experience-throughout-my-three-months/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9ba/mahatma-gandhi-23_affection_i-am-not-conscious-of-a-single-experienc_2781667.jpg) > [Seeing God face to face is to feel that He is enthroned in our hearts even as a child feels a mother's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/seeing-god-face-to-face-is-to-feel-that-he-is-enthroned-in-our-hearts/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/323/mahatma-gandhi-23_affection_seeing-god-face-to-face-is-to-feel-that_2951176.jpg) > [I can retain neither respect nor affection for government which has been moving from wrong to wrong in order to defend its…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/i-can-retain-neither-respect-nor-affection-for-government-which-has/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a0f/mahatma-gandhi-23_affection_i-can-retain-neither-respect-nor-affecti_3101875.jpg) ## Other authors on Affection - 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[Kamand Kojouri 15 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/affection/kamand-kojouri/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b007/author-david-hume-27582.jpg) David Hume 14 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/affection/david-hume/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-thomas-jefferson-90435.jpg) Thomas Jefferson 12 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/affection/thomas-jefferson/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b014/author-jonathan-edwards-52877.jpg) Jonathan Edwards 10 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/affection/jonathan-edwards/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b006/author-cesar-millan-21904.jpg) Cesar Millan 10 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/affection/cesar-millan/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b014/author-john-piper-52106.jpg) John Piper 9 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/affection/john-piper/) ## More by Mahatma Gandhi > [I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/i-do-not-want-to-live-at-the-cost-of-the-life-even-of-a-snake-i/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) > [Devotion required by the Gita is no soft-hearted effusiveness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/devotion-required-by-the-gita-is-no-soft-hearted-effusiveness/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) > [No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/no-nation-being-under-another-nation-can-accept-gifts-and-kick-at-the/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) > [So long as we fear the outside world, we must cease to think of Swaraj.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/so-long-as-we-fear-the-outside-world-we-must-cease-to-think-of-swaraj/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) > [I do not want a kingdom, or heaven; what I want is to remove the trouble of the oppressed, the poor, and the needy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/i-do-not-want-a-kingdom-or-heaven-what-i-want-is-to-remove-the/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) > [Religions are not for separating men from one another, they are meant to bind them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/religions-are-not-for-separating-men-from-one-another-they-are-meant/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) > [I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/i-hold-flesh-food-to-be-unsuited-to-our-species-we-err-in-copying-the/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) > [“It was only in South Africa that I got over this shyness, though I never completely overcame it. It was impossible for me to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/it-was-only-in-south-africa-that-i-got-over-this-shyness-though-i/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) > [“Where there is life.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/where-there-is-life/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) > [If it was wrong to seek God in a stone, how was it right to seek Him in a book called the Gita, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/if-it-was-wrong-to-seek-god-in-a-stone-how-was-it-right-to-seek-him/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) > [The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/the-spirit-of-democracy-cannot-be-established-in-the-midst-of/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) > [Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/champions-are-made-from-something-they-have-deep-inside-of-them-a/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) > [My motto is "Unite now, today if you can; fight if you must. But in every case avoid British intervention."](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/my-motto-is-unite-now-today-if-you-can-fight-if-you-must-but-in-every/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) > [I have no disciples, being myself an aspirant after discipleship and in search of a guru.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/i-have-no-disciples-being-myself-an-aspirant-after-discipleship-and/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) > [Man becomes not the lord and master of all creation but he is its servant.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/man-becomes-not-the-lord-and-master-of-all-creation-but-he-is-its/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/affection/mahatma-gandhi/#itemlist", "name": "8 Affection Quotes By Mahatma Gandhi", "numberOfItems": 8, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "My only sanction is the love and affection in which you hold me. 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