Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Opinions

• A teacher who establishes rapport with the taught, becomes one with them, learns more from them than he teaches them. He who learns nothing from his disciples is, in my opinion, worthless. Whenever I talk with someone I learn from him. I take from him more than I give him.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Education, Teacher, Attitude

  "Collected Works".

• Cow-slaughter and man-slaughter are in my opinion two sides of the same coin.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Two Sides, Coins

  Mahatma Gandhi (1978). “Hindu Dharma”, p.124, Orient Paperbacks

• Detachment is not indifference. it is the prerequisite for effective involvement. Often what we think is best for others is distorted by our attachments to our opinions. We want others to be happy in the way we think they should be happy. It is only when we want nothing for ourselves that we are able to see clearly into others needs and understand how to serve them.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Yoga, Thinking, Attachment

• For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Sad, Public Opinion, Politics

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

• We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Heart, Acceptance

  Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “All Religions are True”

• Nonviolent action means mobilization of world opinion in our favour.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, World, Favour

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

• Under democracy, individual liberty of opinion and action is jealously guarded.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Democracy, Liberty, Action

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.27, Rajpal & Sons

• Moral restrictions tend to become lax in a foreign country, since the fear of social opinion disappears.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Country, Lax, Morality

  Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words”

• The only force at the disposal of democracy is that of public opinion.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Democracy, Public Opinion, Opinion

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.353, Rajpal & Sons

• No religion taught man to kill fellowmen because he held different opinions or was of another religion.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Religion, Different

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “To the Protagonists of Pakistan”

• When real independence comes to India, the Congress and the League will be nowhere unless they represent the real opinion of the country.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Country, Real, League

• My own opinion is that just as fundamentally man and woman are one, their problems must be one in essence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Essence, Opinion

  Mahatma Gandhi, Rudrangshu Mukherjee (1993). “The Penguin Gandhi Reader”, p.195, Penguin Books India

• Satyagraha is a process of educating public opinion, such that it covers all the elements of the society and in the end makes itself irresistible.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Public Opinion, Elements, Ends

  Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1996). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.142, Hackett Publishing

• Journalism has a distinct place in familiarizing and expressing public opinion.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Public Opinion, Opinion, Journalism

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

• All satyagraha and fasting is a species of tyaga. It depends for its effects upon an expression of wholesome public opinion shorn of all bitterness.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Expression, Fasting, Public Opinion

  Mahatma Gandhi (1941). “The Indian States' Problem”

• Non-co-operation is the quickest method of creating public opinion.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Creating, Public Opinion, Operations

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.354, Rajpal & Sons

• The satyagrahi strives to reach reason through the heart. The method of reaching the heart is to awaken public opinion.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Heart, Public Opinion, Reason

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Satyagraha (non-violent Resistance)”

• I retain the opinion that council entry is inconsistent with non-co-operation as I conceive it.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Opinion, Operations, Council

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

• To kill these (rabid) dogs, in my opinion, amount to himsa, but I believe it to be inevitable if we are to escape much greater himsa.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Dog, Believe, Violence

• Creation of effective public opinion depends on the cultivation of true courage, born of truthfulness and nonviolence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Public Opinion, Creation, Born

• When the panchayat raj is established, public opinion will do what violence can never do.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Public Opinion, Violence, Opinion

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1986). “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Non-Violent Resistance and Social Transformation”, Clarendon Press

• Public opinion alone can keep a society pure and healthy.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Struggle, Healthy, Public Opinion

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.353, Rajpal & Sons

• Performance of one's duties should be independent of public opinion.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Freedom, Independent, Democracy

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.55, Courier Corporation

• In my humble opinion, non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good. But in the past, non-cooperation has been deliberately expressed in violence to the evildoer. I am endeavoring to show my countrymen that violent non-cooperation only multiplies evil and that evil can only be sustained by violence. Withdrawal of support of evil requires complete abstention from violence. Non-violence implies voluntary submission to the penalty for non-cooperation with evil.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Humble, Past, Evil

  Courtroom statement, Ahmadabad, India, 23 Mar. 1922

• Surely conversion is a matter between man and his Maker who alone knows his creatures' hearts. A conversion without a clean heart is, in my opinion, a denial of God and Religion. Conversion without cleanliness of heart can only be a matter of sorrow, not joy, to a godly person.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Heart, Godly, Men

  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”

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