Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Tradition

• Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Simple, Men, Clothes

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

• India has an unbroken tradition of nonviolence from times immemorial.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  India, Unbroken, Tradition

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.342, Rajpal & Sons

• 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

• It hurts me to think that people in their rush for everything modern despise all their ancient traditions and ignore them in their lives.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Hurt, Thinking, People

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.156, Courier Corporation

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