Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Humanity

• The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Greatness, Humanity

• 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

• To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior. Has she not greater intuition, is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater powers of endurance, has she not greater courage? Without her, man could not be. If nonviolence is the law of our being, the future is with woman. Who can make a more effective appeal to the heart than woman?

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Sex, Heart

  Mahatma Gandhi (1930). “Young India”

• Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Prayer

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.240, Courier Corporation

• Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day: - I shall not fear anyone on Earth. - I shall fear only God. - I shall not bear ill will toward anyone. - I shall not submit to injustice from anyone. - I shall conquer untruth by truth. And in resisting untruth, I shall put up with all suffering.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Morning, Peace, Ill Will

  Gandhi (Mahatma) (1965). “Collected works”

• There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Witty, Humorous, Food

• Every murder or other injury, no matter for what cause, committed or inflicted on another is a crime against humanity.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Humanity, Matter, Causes

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

• Seven Deadly Sins Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Happiness, Success

• The most violent weapon on earth is the table fork.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Animal, Humanity, Earth

• It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  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 golden way is to be friends with the world and to regard the whole human family as one.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Family, Friends, Community

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.115, A&C Black

• Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French. It is wrong and inhuman to impose the Jews on the Arabs... Surely it would be a crime against humanity to reduce the proud Arabs so that Palestine can be restored to the Jews partly or wholly as their national home

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Home, Humanity

  Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings”, p.318, Grove Press

• I believe in the absolute oneness of God and, therefore, also of humanity. What though we have many bodies? We have but one soul. The rays of the sun are many through refraction. But they have the same source. I cannot, therefore, detach myself from the wickedest soul (nor may I be denied identity with the most virtuous).

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Believe, Oneness, Soul

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

• Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Leadership, Men

  Mahatma Gandhi (1966). “Socialism of My Conception”

• If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed � but hate these things in yourself, not in another.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Hate, Ubuntu

• We must become the change we want to see.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Change, Peace

• Of all the evils for which man has made himself responsible, none is so degrading, so shocking, or so brutal as his abuse of the better half of humanity; to me, the female sex is not the weaker sex.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Sex, Men, Evil

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.156, A&C Black

• No sacrifice is worth the name unless it is a joy. Sacrifice and a long face go ill together. Sacrifice is 'making sacred'. He must be a poor specimen of humanity who is in need of sympathy for his sacrifice.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Sacrifice, Names, Long

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.90, Courier Corporation

• All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Soul, Humanity, Criminal Mind

• Whether humanity will consciously follow the law of love, I do not know. But that need not disturb me. The law will work just as the law of gravitation works whether we accept it or not.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Positive, Law Of Attraction

• I am not fighting machinery as such, but the madness of thinking that machinery saves labor. Men save labor until thousands of them are without work and die of hunger on the streets. I want to secure employment and livelihood not only to part of the human race, but for all. I will not have the enrichment of a few at the expense of the community. At present the machine is helping a small minority to live on the exploitation of the masses. The motive force of this minority is not humanity or love of their kind, but greed and avarice.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Fighting, Men, Thinking

• Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and therefore, were not all those who sanctioned, engineered and conducted wars, war criminals?

  Mahatma Gandhi

  War, Humanity, Criminals

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.370, Tara Publishing

• The Bhagavad-Gita calls on humanity to dedicate body, mind and soul to pure duty and not to become mental voluptuaries at the mercy of random desires and undisciplined impulses.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Humanity, Soul, Mind

• What kind of victory is it when someone is left defeated? What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy. What is a war criminal? Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and, therefore, were not all those who sanctioned, engineered and conducted wars, war criminals? The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. Non-cooperation with evil is a sacred duty.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Strong, War, Differences

  Non-Violence in Peace and War (1942) vol. 1, ch. 142

• I cannot think of permanent enmity between man and man, and believing as I do in the theory of reincarnation, I live in the hope that if not in this birth, in some other birth I shall be able to hug all of humanity in friendly embrace.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Believe, Men, Thinking

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