--- title: "8 Dear Quotes By Mahatma Gandhi" description: "8 Dear quotes by Mahatma Gandhi. Plus more from Mahatma Gandhi and more Dear sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e2c/mahatma-gandhi-23_danger_my-nonviolence-does-not-admit-of-running_71035.jpg" --- > [My nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger and leaving the dear ones unprotected.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/my-nonviolence-does-not-admit-of-running-away-from-danger-and-leaving/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e2c/mahatma-gandhi-23_danger_my-nonviolence-does-not-admit-of-running_71035.jpg) > [After long study and experience, I have come to the conclusion that (1) all religions are true; (2) all religions have some…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/after-long-study-and-experience-i-have-come-to-the-conclusion-that-1/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/33d/mahatma-gandhi-23_conclusion_after-long-study-and-experience-i-have-c_89937.jpg) > [Coal is not dear for the coal-miner who can use it there and then, nor is khadi dear for the villager who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/coal-is-not-dear-for-the-coal-miner-who-can-use-it-there-and-then-nor/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cff/mahatma-gandhi-23_climate_coal-is-not-dear-for-the-coal-miner-who_352781.jpg) > [I came to the conclusion long ago that all religions were true and that also that all had some error in them,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/i-came-to-the-conclusion-long-ago-that-all-religions-were-true-and/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/99d/mahatma-gandhi-23_christian_i-came-to-the-conclusion-long-ago-that-a_754523.jpg) > [There are times when you have to obey a call which is the highest of all, i.e. the voice of conscience even…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/there-are-times-when-you-have-to-obey-a-call-which-is-the-highest-of/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e05/mahatma-gandhi-23_bitter_there-are-times-when-you-have-to-obey-a_858479.jpg) > [Every widow I have met has recognized in the wheel a dear forgotten friend.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/every-widow-i-have-met-has-recognized-in-the-wheel-a-dear-forgotten/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/59a/mahatma-gandhi-23_dear_every-widow-i-have-met-has-recognized-in_1620542.jpg) > [Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/freedom-is-never-dear-at-any-price-it-is-the-breath-of-life-what/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/585/mahatma-gandhi-23_dear_freedom-is-never-dear-at-any-price-it-is_1992218.jpg) > [Running away for fear of death, leaving one's dear ones, temples or music to take care of themselves, is irreligion; it is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/running-away-for-fear-of-death-leaving-one-s-dear-ones-temples-or/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/03d/mahatma-gandhi-23_care_running-away-for-fear-of-death-leaving-o_2684752.jpg) ## Other authors on Dear ## 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/dear/mahatma-gandhi/#itemlist", "name": "8 Dear Quotes By Mahatma Gandhi", "numberOfItems": 8, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "My nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger and leaving the dear ones unprotected.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Mahatma Gandhi" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/my-nonviolence-does-not-admit-of-running-away-from-danger-and-leaving/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e2c/mahatma-gandhi-23_danger_my-nonviolence-does-not-admit-of-running_71035.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e2c/mahatma-gandhi-23_danger_my-nonviolence-does-not-admit-of-running_71035.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e2c/mahatma-gandhi-23_danger_my-nonviolence-does-not-admit-of-running_71035.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“My nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger and leaving the dear ones unprotected.” — Mahatma Gandhi", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "After long study and experience, I have come to the conclusion that (1) all religions are true; (2) all religions have some error in them; (3) all religions are almost as dear to me as my own Hinduism, in as much as all human beings should be as dear to one as one's own close relatives.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Mahatma Gandhi" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/after-long-study-and-experience-i-have-come-to-the-conclusion-that-1/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/33d/mahatma-gandhi-23_conclusion_after-long-study-and-experience-i-have-c_89937.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/33d/mahatma-gandhi-23_conclusion_after-long-study-and-experience-i-have-c_89937.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/33d/mahatma-gandhi-23_conclusion_after-long-study-and-experience-i-have-c_89937.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“After long study and experience, I have come to the conclusion that (1) all religions are true; (2) all…” — Mahatma Gandhi", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Coal is not dear for the coal-miner who can use it there and then, nor is khadi dear for the villager who manufactures his own khadi.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Mahatma Gandhi" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/coal-is-not-dear-for-the-coal-miner-who-can-use-it-there-and-then-nor/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cff/mahatma-gandhi-23_climate_coal-is-not-dear-for-the-coal-miner-who_352781.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cff/mahatma-gandhi-23_climate_coal-is-not-dear-for-the-coal-miner-who_352781.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cff/mahatma-gandhi-23_climate_coal-is-not-dear-for-the-coal-miner-who_352781.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Coal is not dear for the coal-miner who can use it there and then, nor is khadi dear for the villager who…” — Mahatma Gandhi", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I came to the conclusion long ago that all religions were true and that also that all had some error in them, and while I hold by my own religion, I should hold other religions as dear as Hinduism. 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