Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Culture

• Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Life, Honesty, Future

• I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the culture of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Freedom, Land, Feet

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.142, A&C Black

• 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

• We often confuse spiritual knowledge with spiritual attainment. Spirituality is not a matter of knowing scriptures and engaging in philosophical discussions. It is a matter of heart culture, of unmeasurable strength.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Philosophical, Heart

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.75, A&C Black

• A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “The Selected Works of Mahatma Gandhi: The voice of truth”

• Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Peace, Heart

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.152, Courier Corporation

• A non-violent revolution is not a program of seizure of power. It is a program of transformation of relationships, ending in a peaceful transfer of power.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Justice, Diversity, Peaceful

  Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.40, New Directions Publishing

• No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Leadership, Teacher, Art And Culture

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.173, Rajpal & Sons

• The truest test of civilization, culture and dignity is character and not clothing.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Character, Civilization, Culture

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

• In the case of the Indian villager, an age-old culture is hidden under entrustment of crudeness.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Age, India, Culture

• A country whose culture is based on nonviolence will find it necessary to have every home as much self-contained as possible.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Country, Home, Self

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

• I claim to represent all the cultures, for my religion, whatever it may be called, demands the fulfillment of all the cultures.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Religion, Culture, Demand

  Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “Volume of prefaces”

• My religion forbids me to belittle or disregard other cultures, as it insists, under pain of civil suicide, upon imbibing and living my own.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Suicide, Pain, Other Cultures

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.173, Rajpal & Sons

• The most distinctive and largest contribution of Hinduism to India's culture is the doctrine of ahimsa.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  India, Doctrine, Culture

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.221, Tara Publishing

• My whole soul rebels against the idea that Hinduism and Islam represent two antagonistic cultures and doctrines.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Ideas, Two, Soul

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.7, Rajpal & Sons

• India has the right, if she only knew, of becoming the predominant partner by reason of her numbers, geographical position and culture inherited for ages.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Numbers, Age, Becoming

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

• The ideal is a synthesis of the different cultures that have come to stay in India, that have influenced Indian life, and that, in their turn, have themselves been influenced by the spirit of the soil.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Culture, Synthesis, Soil

  Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “The Selected Works of Mahatma Gandhi: Satyagraha in South Africa”

• I do not want my house to be rounded by walls and my windows to be closed to other cultures. I wish to become familiar with the culture of lands as much as possible but I will not permit them to affect me or shake me from my own status.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Wall, Other Cultures, Land

• I do not wish my house to be walled and my windows stuffed. I want all cultures to blow freely through my dwelling.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Blow, Dwelling, House

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