Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Mankind
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Islam stands for the unity and brotherhood of mankind, and not for disrupting the oneness of the human family.
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It is derogatory to the dignity of mankind, it is derogatory to the dignity of India, to entertain for one single moment hatred towards Englishmen.
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It is degrading both for man and woman that woman should be called upon or induced to forsake the hearth and shoulder the rifle for the protection of that hearth.
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All great religions have rightly regarded kama as the arch-enemy of man, anger or hatred coming only in the second place.
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That which makes man the mere plaything of fate is God.
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It is the law of love that rules mankind.
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Man has regarded woman as his tool. She has learnt to be his tool and in the end found it is easy and pleasurable to be such, because when one drags another in his fall, the descent is easy.
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It is my firm faith that man is by nature going higher.
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If treachery is the reward of trust, will the man who trusts come to harm?
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The true democrat is he who with purely nonviolent means defends his liberty and, therefore, his country's and ultimately that of the whole of mankind.
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A perfect Muslim is he from whose tongue and hands mankind is safe.
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We labor under the fatal delusion that no disease can be cured without medicine. This has been responsible for more mischief to mankind than any other evil. ...Disease increases in proportion to the increase to the number of doctors in a place.
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Non-violence ... is the only thing that the atom bomb cannot destroy. I did not move a muscle when I first heard that the atom bomb had wiped out Hiroshima. On the contrary, I said to myself, Unless now the world adopts non-violence, it will spell certain suicide for mankind.
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Men to be men must be able to trust their womenfolk, even as the latter are compelled to trust them.
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Man becomes not the lord and master of all creation but he is its servant.
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If I am true to myself, if I am true to mankind, if I am true to humanity, I must understand all the faults that human flesh is heir to.
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What distinguishes man from the brute is his conscious striving to realise the spirit within.
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Every species, human and subhuman, has some distinguishing mark, so that you can tell a man from a beast, or a dog from a cow.
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Study not man in his animal nature - man following the laws of the jungle - but study man in all his glory.
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The most practical, the most dignified way of going on in the world is to take people at their word, when you have no positive reason to the contrary.
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Let India become alive by self-purification, that is self-restraint and self-denial, and she will be a boon to herself and mankind.
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Imperfect men have no right to judge other imperfect men.
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Man will ever remain imperfect, and it will always be his part to try to be perfect.
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Do not flatter yourselves with the belief that a mere recital of that celebrated verse in St. John makes a man a Christian.
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All my actions have their rise in my inalienable love of mankind.
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So far as I can see the atomic bomb has deadened the finest feeling that has sustained mankind for ages.
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There is no distrust of men and mankind in me. They will answer before God, so why should I worry?
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The man who coerces another not to eat fish commits more violence than he who eats it.
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God is certainly one. He has no second. He is unfathomable, unknowable and unknown to the vast majority of mankind.
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Man's triumph will consist in substituting the struggle for existence by a struggle for mutual service.
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Mahatma Gandhi
- Born: October 2, 1869
- Died: January 30, 1948
- Occupation: Civil rights leader
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