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Nature Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

71 Nature quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

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The most violent weapon on earth is the table fork, Gandhi jokes to show how small things can cause big harm. He reminds us that dignity means facing life's storms and that nothing stays the same forever. He also says that true power comes from loving liberty without killing, even if it means being killed.

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I own no enemy on earth. That is my creed.

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The most violent weapon on earth is the table fork.

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It is my firm faith that man is by nature going higher.

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Nothing is of a permanent nature.

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When a tiger changes his nature, Englishmen will change theirs.

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The good man is the friend of all living things.

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The earth has enough resources for our need, but not for our greed.

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

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God resides in every human form, indeed in every particle of His creations, in everything that is on his earth.

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If everybody lives by the sweat of his brow, the earth will become a paradise.

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On India rests the burden of pointing the way to all the exploited races of the earth.

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

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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.

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God is the hardest taskmaster I have known on this earth and He tries you through and through.

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My varnashram refuses to bow the head before the greatest potentate on earth, but my varnashram compels me to bow down my…

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“Before God the work of man will be judged by the spirit in which it is done, not by the nature of…

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Forces of nature act in a mysterious manner. We can but solve the mystery by deducing the unknown result from the known…

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Study men following the law of their higher nature, the law of love, so that when you grow to manhood, you will…

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We are less than atoms, I say, because the atom obeys the law of its being, whereas we in the insolence of…

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I have in my life never been guilty of saying things I did not mean - my nature is to go straight…

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Illness or disease is only Nature's warning that filth has accumulated in some portion or other of the body; and it would…

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Civil disobedience is not only the natural right of a people, especially when they have no effective voice in their own Government,…

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It is a tragedy of the first magnitude that millions of people have ceased to use their hands as hands. Nature has…

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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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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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We but mirror the world. All the tendencies present in the outer world are to be found in the world of our…

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Man has reason, discrimination and free-will such as it is. The brute has no such thing. It is not a free agent,…

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Hinduism is a living organism liable to growth and decay subject to the laws of Nature. One and indivisible at the root,…

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God is the hardest taskmaster I have known on this earth, and he tries you through and through. And when you find…

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I suggest that we are thieves in a way. If I take anything that I do not need for my own immediate…

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“My patriotism is both exclusive and inclusive. It is exclusive in the sense that in all humility I confine my attention to…

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... man was not born a carnivorous animal, but born to live on the fruits and herbs that the earth grows. I…

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No power on earth can resist the lovers of liberty who are ready not to kill opponents, but be killed by them.

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Ahimsa is one of the world's great principles, which no power on earth can wipe out.

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Every single act of one who would lead a life of purity should be in the nature of yajna.

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Freedom of India will demonstrate to all the exploited races of the earth that their freedom is very near.

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A person is bound to work in obedience to and in conformity to that person's own nature.

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There is nothing on earth that I would not give up, excepting of course, two things and two things only, truth and…

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

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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…

Devotion required by the Gita is no soft-hearted effusiveness.

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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“Where there is life.”

If it was wrong to seek God in a stone, how was it right to seek Him in a book called the Gita, the…

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.