Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Tolerance

• Mutual tolerance is a necessity for all time and for all races.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Race, Tolerance, All Time

  Mahatma Gandhi, U. R. Rao (1963). “The Way to Communal Harmony”, Ahmedabad, [India] : Navajivan Publishing House

• It is the duty of every cultured man or woman to read sympathetically the scriptures of the world. If we are to respect others' religions as we would have them respect our own, a friendly study of the world's religions is a sacred duty.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Sympathy, Men, Diversity

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

• The need of the moment is not one religion, but mutual respect and tolerance of the devotees of the different religions.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Tolerance, Religion, Different

  Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “The Message of Mahatma Gandhi”

• Decency and tolerance, to be of any value, must be capable of withstanding the severest strain.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Tolerance, Strain, Withstanding

• Tolerance is the only thing that will enable persons belonging to different religions to live as good neighbours and friends.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Tolerance, Different, Persons

  Mahatma Gandhi, U. R. Rao (1963). “The Way to Communal Harmony”, Ahmedabad, [India] : Navajivan Publishing House

• Once one assumes an attitude of intolerance, there is no knowing where it will take one. Intolerance, someone has said, is violence to the intellect and hatred is violence to the heart.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Attitude, War

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

• The very first step in nonviolence is that we cultivate in our daily life, as between ourselves, truthfulness, humility, tolerance, loving kindness.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Kindness, Humility

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

• Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Betrayal, Tolerance, Betrayed

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.18, Courier Corporation

• Tolerance gives us spiritual insight, which is as far from fanaticism as the north pole is from the south.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Giving, Tolerance

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.51, Courier Corporation

• Unless we are able to evolve a spirit of mutual tolerance for diametrically opposite views, non co-operation is an impossibility.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Views, Opposites, Tolerance

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Collected Works”

• God the Compassionate and the Merciful, Tolerance incarnate, allows Mammon to have his nine days' wonder.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Tolerance, Nine

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.240, Rajpal & Sons

• Tolerance obviously does not disturb the distinction between right and wrong, or good and evil.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Evil, Tolerance, Doe

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.51, Courier Corporation

• Yet even differences prove helpful, where there are tolerance, charity and Truth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Differences, Tolerance, Charity

  Mahatma Gandhi, General Press (2014). “My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.249, GENERAL PRESS

• I do not like the word tolerance, but could not think of a better one. Tolerance implies a gratuitous assumption of the inferiority of other faiths to one

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Thinking, Tolerance, Inferiority

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Gita: The Mother”, Lahore, India : Indian Printing Works

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