Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Tragedy

• It is a first class human tragedy that people of the earth who claim to believe in the message of Jesus, whom they describe as the Prince of Peace, show little of that belief in actual practice.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Jesus, Believe, Practice

  Mahatma Gandhi (1993). “Gandhi on Nehru”

• ... man was not born a carnivorous animal, but born to live on the fruits and herbs that the earth grows. I know we must all err. I would give up milk if I could, but I cannot. I have made that experiment times without number. I could not, after a serious illness, regain my strength, unless I went back to milk. That has been the tragedy of my life. But the basis of my vegetarianism is not physical, but moral. If anybody said that I should die if I did not take beef tea or mutton, even on medical advice, I would prefer death. That is the basis of my vegetarianism.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Giving Up, Animal, Men

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

• It is a tragedy of the first magnitude that millions of people have ceased to use their hands as hands. Nature has bestowed upon us this great gift which is our hands. If the craze for machinery method continues, it is highly likely that a time will come when we shall be so incapacitated and weak that we shall begin to curse ourselves for having forgotten the use of the living machines given to us by God.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Hands, People, Tragedy

• It is a tragedy that religion for us means, today, nothing more than restrictions on food and drink, nothing more than adherence to absence of superiority and inferiority.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Religion, Tragedy

• My life has been full of external tragedies and if they have not left any visible effect on me, I owe it to the teaching of the Bhagavadgita.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Teaching, Tragedy, Gita

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.186, Courier Corporation

• The moral to be legitimately drawn from the supreme tragedy of the bomb is that it will not be destroyed by counter bombs even as violence cannot be by counter-violence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Tragedy, Bombs, Violence

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.367, Tara Publishing

• We are too near the scene of tragedy to realize that this canker or untouchability has traveled far beyond its prescribed limits and has sapped the very foundation of the whole nation.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Tragedy, Limits, Foundation

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

• It is the law of love that rules mankind. Had violence, i.e. hate, rules us we would have become extinct long ago. And yet, the tragedy of it is that the so-called civilised men and nations conduct themselves as if the basis of society was violence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Hate, Men

  Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.59, New Directions Publishing

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