--- title: "8 Dare Quotes By Mahatma Gandhi" description: "8 Dare quotes by Mahatma Gandhi. Plus more from Mahatma Gandhi and more Dare sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fd7/mahatma-gandhi-23_be-brave_before-hindus-and-moslems-dare-think-of_68442.jpg" --- > [ Before \[Hindus and Moslems\] dare think of freedom, they must be brave enough to love one another, to tolerate one another's religion,… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/before-hindus-and-moslems-dare-think-of-freedom-they-must-be-brave/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fd7/mahatma-gandhi-23_be-brave_before-hindus-and-moslems-dare-think-of_68442.jpg) > [We dare not enter the kingdom of liberty with mere life-homage to truth and nonviolence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/we-dare-not-enter-the-kingdom-of-liberty-with-mere-life-homage-to/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/883/mahatma-gandhi-23_dare_we-dare-not-enter-the-kingdom-of-liberty_244127.jpg) > [I was a coward. I used to be haunted by the fear of thieves, ghosts and serpents. I did not dare to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/i-was-a-coward-i-used-to-be-haunted-by-the-fear-of-thieves-ghosts-and/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c0b/mahatma-gandhi-23_bears_i-was-a-coward-i-used-to-be-haunted-by-t_992647.jpg) > [Human language can but imperfectly describe God's ways. I am sensible of the fact that they are indescribable and inscrutable. But if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/human-language-can-but-imperfectly-describe-god-s-ways-i-am-sensible/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/285/mahatma-gandhi-23_dare_human-language-can-but-imperfectly-descr_1664450.jpg) > [A democratic organization has to dare to do the right at all costs.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/a-democratic-organization-has-to-dare-to-do-the-right-at-all-costs/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1de/mahatma-gandhi-23_cost_a-democratic-organization-has-to-dare-to_2105643.jpg) > [To a people famishing and idle, the only acceptable form in which God can dare appear is work and promise of food…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/to-a-people-famishing-and-idle-the-only-acceptable-form-in-which-god/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2fa/mahatma-gandhi-23_acceptable_to-a-people-famishing-and-idle-the-only_2294546.jpg) > [The life of millions is my politics, from which I dare not free myself without denying my life-work and God.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/the-life-of-millions-is-my-politics-from-which-i-dare-not-free-myself/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d3/mahatma-gandhi-23_dare_the-life-of-millions-is-my-politics-from_2491494.jpg) > [When a man vowed to nonviolence as the law governing human beings dares to refer to war, he can only do it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/when-a-man-vowed-to-nonviolence-as-the-law-governing-human-beings/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6da/mahatma-gandhi-23_dare_when-a-man-vowed-to-nonviolence-as-the-l_2869557.jpg) ## Other authors on Dare ## 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/dare/mahatma-gandhi/#itemlist", "name": "8 Dare Quotes By Mahatma Gandhi", "numberOfItems": 8, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Before [Hindus and Moslems] dare think of freedom, they must be brave enough to love one another, to tolerate one another's religion, even prejudices and superstitions, and to trust one another. 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