Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Atheism

• I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Faith, Christian

  As quoted by William Rees-Mogg in "The Times", April 4, 2005.

• Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Life, Peace

  Mahatma Gandhi (1948). “Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth”, p.454, Courier Corporation

• There is no god higher than truth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Truth, Religion

• Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Evil, Diversity, Patriotism

  Courtroom statement, Ahmadabad, India, 23 Mar. 1922

• The most heinous and the most cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble motives.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Religious, Atheist, Fear

• God is conscience. He is even the atheism of the atheist.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Atheist, Atheism

  Mahatma Gandhi (2011). “The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi”, North Atlantic Books

• If I seem to take part in politics, it is only because politics encircles us today like the coil of a snake from which one cannot get out, no matter how much one tries. I wish therefore to wrestle with the snake.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Snakes, Political, Trying

  Mahatma Gandhi (1986). “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Civilization, Politics and Religion”, Clarendon Press

• The concepts of truth may differ. But all admit and respect truth. That truth I call God. For sometime I was saying, "God is Truth," but that did not satisfy me. So now I say, "Truth is God."

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Atheism, May, Truth Is

• It amazes me to find an intelligent person who fights against something which he does not at all believe exists.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Atheist, Believe, Fighting

• Do you think I am superstitious? I am a super-atheist.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Atheist, Thinking, Atheism

• I am a poor mendicant. My earthly possessions consist of six spinning wheels, prison dishes, a can of goat's milk, six homespun loincloths and towels and my reputation, which cannot be worth much.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Atheism, Goats, Towels

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.40, A&C Black

• It is not a mistake to commit a mistake, for no one commits a mistake knowing it to be one. But it is a mistake not to correct the mistake after knowing it to be one. If you are afraid of committing a mistake, you are afraid of doing anything at all. You will correct your mistakes whenever you find them.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mistake, Knowing, Atheism

• My method is conversion, not coercion, it is self-suffering, not the suffering of the tyrant. I know that method to be infallible.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Self, Tyrants, Suffering

  Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1996). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.99, Hackett Publishing

• If we are to stand the final heat of the battle, we must learn to stand our ground in the face of cavalry or baton charges and allow ourselves to be trampled under horses' hooves, or be bruised with baton charges.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Horse, Atheism, Battle

  Mahatma Gandhi (1971). “Collected Works”

• Such expression is impossible in a cramped atmosphere. As I have no desire to offer civil disobedience I cannot write freely. As the author of satyagraha I cannot, consistently with my profession, suppress the vital part of myself for the sake of being able to write on permissible subjects. ... It would be like dealing with the trunk without the head.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Writing, Expression, Atmosphere

  Mahatma Gandhi (1951). “Satyagraha: Non-violent Resistance”

• Watches may disagree, but let us not.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Atheism, May, Watches

• Duly Enlightened Gandhi's head by Mall of the 'Free Press Journal,' Bombay, in 1932Watches may disagree, but let us not.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Atheism, May, Bombay

• If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Struggle, School, Government

  Mahatma Gandhi (1969). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

• The story of the creation and similar things in it did not impress me very much, but on the contrary made me incline somewhat towards atheism.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Atheism, Stories, Creation

  Mahatma Gandhi (1948). “Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth”, p.30, Courier Corporation

• It is the reformer who is anxious for the reform, and not society, from which he should expect nothing better than opposition, abhorrence and even mortal persecution.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Fear, Atheism, Reform

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.81, Courier Corporation

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