Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Human Nature

• You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Faith, Hope

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.30, Courier Corporation

• Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love You, Men, Yield

  Mahatma Gandhi (1977). “Collected Works”

• Human nature will find itself only when it fully realizes that to be human it has to cease to be beastly or brutal.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Nature, Animal, Realizing

  Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “The Essential Gandhi: His Life, Work, and Ideas : an Anthology”, Vintage

• We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Anger, Abuse, Betrayed

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi”

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Life, Storm, Faces

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

• No one should dogmatize about the capacity of human nature for degradation or exaltation.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Exaltation, Degradation

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.81, A&C Black

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Believe, Men, Human Nature

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

• Not to believe in the possibility of permanent peace is to disbelieve in the Godliness of human nature.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Believe, Human Nature

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.117, A&C Black

• I am not conscious of a single experience throughout my three months' stay in England and Europe that made me feel that after all East is East and West is West. On the contrary, I have been convinced more than ever that human nature is much the same, no matter under what clime it flourishes, and that if you approached people with trust and affection you would have ten-fold trust and thousand-fold affection returned to you.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Trust, Europe, People

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.232, Vintage

• H. G. Wells was not the only one to mention Churchill and Hitler in the same breath: "Churchill and Hitler are striving to change the nature of their respective countrymen by forcing and hammering violent methods on them. Man may be suppressed in this manner but he cannot be changed. Ahimsa [non-violence in the Hindu tradition], on the other hand, can change human nature and sooner than men like Churchill and Hitler."

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Hands, May

• If you think the world is all wrong, remember that it contains people like you.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Thinking, People, World

• Belief in non-violence is based on the assumption that human nature in the essence is one and therefore unfailingly responds to the advances of love.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Essence, Violence, Belief

  Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.38, New Directions Publishing

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