Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Children

• I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Children, Evil

  Mahatma Gandhi (1948). “Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth”, p.276, Courier Corporation

• If we are to reach real peace in this world and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with children; and if they will grow up in their natural innocence, we won't have to struggle; we won't have to pass fruitless idle resolutions, but we shall go from love to love and peace to peace, until at last all the corners of the world are covered with that peace and love for which consciously or unconsciously the whole world is hungering.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Peace, Growing Up

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.120, Courier Corporation

• The earth, the air, the land and the water are not an inheritance from our fore fathers but on loan from our children. So we have to handover to them at least as it was handed over to us.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Children, Father, Air

• If we wish to create a lasting peace we must begin with the children.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Children, Wish

• If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Children, Real

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

• The law of love could be best understood and learned through little children.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Inspirational, Spiritual

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

• A mother would never by choice sleep in a wet bed but she would gladly do so in order to spare the dry bed for her child.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mother, Children, Sleep

  Mahatma Gandhi (1949). “Selected Letters”

• If we are to create peace in our world, we must begin with our children.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Children, Our World, Peaceful

• If you want real peace in the world, start with children.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Children, Real

• The greatest lessons in life, if we would but stoop and humble ourselves, we would learn not from the grown-up learned men, but from the so-called ignorant children.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Children, Life Lesson, Humble

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.226, Rajpal & Sons

• Is not education the art of drawing out full manhood of the children under training?

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Education, Art, Children

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

• What is impossible with man is child's play with God.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Children, Men

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.227, Rajpal & Sons

• Experience gained in two schools under my control has taught me that punishment does not purify, if anything, it hardens children.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Education, Children, School

  Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

• India must protect her primary industries even as a mother protects her children against the whole world without being hostile to it.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mother, Children, India

  Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “Gandhis India: Unity in Diversity”

• If a single man demanded as much as a man with a wife and four children, then that would be a violation of the concept of economic equality.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Children, Men, Equality

• Our children should not be so taught as to despise labour.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Children, Taught, Should

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.175, Rajpal & Sons

• The object of basic education is the physical, intellectual and moral development of children through the medium of handicraft.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Children, Moral Development, Intellectual

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.178, Rajpal & Sons

• In matters concerning religion, I consider myself not a child but an adult with 35 years of experience.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Children, Years, Religion

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Collected Works”

• Khaddar is an activity that can absorb all the time of all available men and women and grown-up children, if they have faith.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Faith, Children, Men

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

• I consider writing as a fine art. We kill it by imposing the alphabet on little children and making it the beginning of learning.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Art, Children, Writing

  Mahatma Gandhi (1976). “Collected Works”

• God of Truth and Justice can never create distinctions of high and low among His own children.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Children, Justice

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “None High: None Low”

• A wretched parent who claims obedience from his children, without first doing his duty by them, excites nothing but contempt.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Children, Parent, Firsts

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.49, Rajpal & Sons

• Seeing God face to face is to feel that He is enthroned in our hearts even as a child feels a mother's affection without needing any demonstration.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Mother, Children

  Mahatma Gandhi (2011). “The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi”, p.65, North Atlantic Books

• It is quite proper to resist and attack a system, but to resist and attack its author is tantamount to resisting and attacking oneself, for we are all tarred with the same brush, and are children of one and the same Creator, and as such the divine powers within us are infinite. To slight a single human being, is to slight those divine powers and thus to harm not only that Being, but with Him, the whole world.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Children, Struggle, World

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.84, A&C Black

• By education, I mean an all-round drawing of the best in child and man in body, mind and spirit.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Children, Educational, Mean

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.146, A&C Black

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