--- title: "9 Appeals Quotes By Mahatma Gandhi" description: "9 Appeals quotes by Mahatma Gandhi. Plus more from Mahatma Gandhi and more Appeals sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/db1/mahatma-gandhi-23_appeals_work-for-swaraj-fails-to-appeal-to-us-be_1394795.jpg" --- > [Work for Swaraj fails to appeal to us because we have no music in us.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/work-for-swaraj-fails-to-appeal-to-us-because-we-have-no-music-in-us/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/db1/mahatma-gandhi-23_appeals_work-for-swaraj-fails-to-appeal-to-us-be_1394795.jpg) > [Hinduism loses its right to make a universal appeal if it closes its temples to Harijans.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/hinduism-loses-its-right-to-make-a-universal-appeal-if-it-closes-its/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a7b/mahatma-gandhi-23_appeals_hinduism-loses-its-right-to-make-a-unive_92273.jpg) > [Islam appeals to people because it appeals also to reason.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/islam-appeals-to-people-because-it-appeals-also-to-reason/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cfa/mahatma-gandhi-23_appeals_islam-appeals-to-people-because-it-appea_885989.jpg) > [Who can make a more effective appeal to the heart than woman?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/who-can-make-a-more-effective-appeal-to-the-heart-than-woman/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/331/mahatma-gandhi-23_appeal_who-can-make-a-more-effective-appeal-to_393400.jpg) > [I appeal for cessation of hostilities, not because you are too exhausted to fight, but because war is bad in essence. You…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/i-appeal-for-cessation-of-hostilities-not-because-you-are-too/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d0/mahatma-gandhi-23_adoption_i-appeal-for-cessation-of-hostilities-no_2475592.jpg) > [The art that is in the machine-made article, appeals only to the eye; the art in Khadi appeals first to the heart…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/the-art-that-is-in-the-machine-made-article-appeals-only-to-the-eye/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1fd/mahatma-gandhi-23_appeals_the-art-that-is-in-the-machine-made-arti_1765719.jpg) > [Dharma is that which is enjoined by the holy books, followed by the sages, interpreted by the learned and which appeals to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/dharma-is-that-which-is-enjoined-by-the-holy-books-followed-by-the/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/309/mahatma-gandhi-23_appeals_dharma-is-that-which-is-enjoined-by-the_2115902.jpg) > [There will have to be rigid and iron discipline before we achieve anything great and enduring, and that discipline will not come…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/there-will-have-to-be-rigid-and-iron-discipline-before-we-achieve/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b69/mahatma-gandhi-23_academic_there-will-have-to-be-rigid-and-iron-dis_2410288.jpg) > [To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/to-call-woman-the-weaker-sex-is-a-libel-it-is-man-s-injustice-to-3/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cb9/mahatma-gandhi-23_appeals_to-call-woman-the-weaker-sex-is-a-libel_1436626.jpg) ## Other authors on Appeals ## 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/appeals/mahatma-gandhi/#itemlist", "name": "9 Appeals Quotes By Mahatma Gandhi", "numberOfItems": 9, 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