Mahatma Gandhi World Quotations

With every true friendship, we build more firmly the foundations on which the peace of the whole world rests.

Prayer from the heart can achieve what nothing else can in the world.

If you want to change the world, start with yourself.

The world is big enough to satisfy everyones needs, but will always be too small to satisfy everyones greed

Buddha renounced every worldly happiness because he wanted to share with the whole world his happiness which was to be had by men who sacrificed and suffered in the search for truth.

If you Christians acted more like your Christ, the world would be a better place.

The Attainment of freedom, whether for a person, a nation or a world, must be in exact proportion to the attainment of nonviolence for each

My optimism rests on my belief in the infinite possibilities of the individual to develop nonviolence. . . . In a gentle way you can shake the world.

Nonviolence has come among men and it will live. It is the harbinger of the peace of the world.

Seven blunders of the world that lead to violence.

We must be the world we want to create.

Eye for eye and the world will go blind.

The greatness of the human being is not in the reincarnation of the world but in the reincarnation of ourselves.

Mortification of the flesh has been held all the world over as a condition of spiritual progress.

The force of the spirit is ever progressive and endless. Its full expression makes it unconquerable in the world.

The strength of the soul can defy a whole world in arms against it.

The platform of services is as big as the world. It is never overcrowded.

Jesus, to me, is a great world teacher among others.

It is indeed a million times better to appear untrue before the world than to be untrue to ourselves.

The world cannot be successfully fooled for all time.

That which you look upon as your own you may keep only so long as the world allows you to own it.

The world is changing every moment, and is therefore unreal. It has non permanent existence.

When I see a cow, it is not an animal to eat, it is a poem of pity for me and I worship it and I shall defend its worship against the whole world.

I own no property and yet I feel that I am perhaps the richest man in the world.

The greatest menace to the world today is the growing, exploiting, irresponsible imperialism.

The whole world is like the human body with its various members. Pain in one member is felt in the whole body.

The whole world is in the throes of a new birth. Anything done for a temporary gain would be tantamount to an abortion.

The world is weary of hate. We see the fatigue overcoming the Western nations.

The world easily finds an honourable place for the magician who produces new and dazzling things.

If you want to play your part in the world's affairs, you must refuse to deck yourselves for pleasing man.

Exploitation and domination of one nation over another can have no place in a world striving to put an end to all war.

I hold that the world is sick of armed rebellions.

Diversity there certainly is in the world, but it means neither inequality nor untouchability.

A man of faith will remain steadfast to truth even though the whole world might appear to be enveloped in falsehood.

Nobody in this world possesses absolute truth.

So long as we fear the outside world, we must cease to think of Swaraj.

Satyagraha is a force that has come to stay. No force in the world can kill it.

True religion being the greatest thing in life and in the world, has been exploited the most.

A democrat should not rely upon the force of the arms his state could flaunt in the face of the world, but on the moral force his state could put at the disposal of the world.

Nonviolent action means mobilization of world opinion in our favour.

Nonviolence being the mightiest force in the world and also the most elusive in its working, demands the greatest exercise of faith.

Truth and nonviolence are perhaps the activest forces you have in the world.

My modesty has prevented me from declaring from the house top that the message of non-co-operation, nonviolence and swadeshi is a message to the world.

Nonviolence, applied to very large masses of mankind, is a new experiment in the history of the world.

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.

All the great religions of the world inculcate equality and brotherhood of mankind and the virtue of toleration.

The man of prayer will be at peace with himself and with the whole world.

There is a world-wide conflict between capital and labour, and the poor envy the rich.

If untouchability lives, Hinduism perishes and even India perishes, but if untouchability is eradicated from the Hindu heart, root and branch, then Hinduism has a definite message for the world.

Nowhere in the world would you find such skeletons of cows and bullocks as you do in our cow-worshipping India.

God forbid that India should ever become a military nation, which would be a menace to the peace of the world, and yet if things went on as they were doing, what hope was there for India and, therefore, for the world?

A free India will throw all her weight in favour of world disarmament and should herself be prepared to give a lead in this.

My nationalism is as broad as my swadeshi, I want India's rise so that the whole world may benefit.

For a fallen India to aspire to move the world and protect the weaker races is seemingly an impertinence.

India's freedom must revolutionize the world's outlook upon Peace and War.

If India becomes the slave of the machine, then, I say, heaven save the world.

An India awakened and free has a message of peace and goodwill to a groaning world.

India must protect her primary industries even as a mother protects her children against the whole world without being hostile to it.

The only way Hinduism can convert the whole world to cow-protection is by giving an object-lesson in cow-protection and all it means.

Hinduism with its message of ahimsa is to me the most glorious religion in the world.

Hinduism has absorbed the best of all the faiths of the world and in that sense Hinduism is not an exclusive religion.

Who is there in the world who can insult the God in the image?

Religion all the world over offeres God as the solace and comfort for all in agony.

All the religions of the world describe God pre-eminently as the Friend of the friendless, Help of the helpless, and Protector of the weak.

All the dry ethics of the world turn to dust because apart from God they are lifeless.

God has so ordered this world that no one can keep his goodness or badness exclusively to himself.

God has been described by all the scriptures of the world as protector and saviour of the sinner.

I have made the world's faith in God my own and as my faith is effaceable, I regard that faith as amounting to experience.

My mission is to convert every Indian, every Englishman and finally the world to nonviolence for regulating mutual relations, whether political, economic, social or religious.

The Gita has become for me the key to the scriptures of the world.

If the lambs of the world had been willingly led, they would have long ago saved themselves from the butcher's knife.

Love in the sense of ahimsa has only a limited number of votaries in the world.

Ahimsa is one of the world's great principles, which no power on earth can wipe out.

We must widen the circle of our love till it embraces the whole village; the village in its turn must take into its fold the district, the district the province, and so on until the scope of our love becomes co-terminous with the world.

The unlimited capacity of the plant world to sustain man at his highest is a region as yet unexplored by modern science.

We find the general work of mankind is being carried on from day to day by the mass of people acting in harmony as if by instinct. If they were instinctively violent, the world would end in no time.

To say that God permits evil in the world may not be pleasing to the ear. But if He is held responsible for the good, it follows that He has to be responsible for the evil too.

He who trusts has never yet lost in the world. A suspicious man is lost to himself and the eworld.... Suspicion is of the brood of violence. Non-violence cannot but trust...

What the eyes are for the outer world, fasts are for the inner.

The light of the world will illuminate within you when you fast and purify yourself.

Does not the history of the world show that there would have been no romance in life if there had been no risks?

If you think the world is all wrong, remember that it contains people like you.

"Be the change you want to see in the world"...and, if you can't be that change, then either get out of the way of the person who wants to be that change or support the individual with your financial resources.

Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose thoughts are violent. It is otherwise with mental non-violence. It has potency which the world does not yet know.

If we know how much passive violence we perpetrate against one another, we will understand why there is so much physical violence plaguing societies and the world.

We have to be the change we want in the world.

The Law of Love, call it attraction, affinity, cohesion if you like, governs the world.

Love is the subtlest force in the world.

True happiness brings more richness than all the money in the world.

There is no hope for the aching world except through the narrow and straight path of nonviolence.

A person who has truly realized the principle of nonviolence has the God given strength for his weapon, and the world has not yet known anything that can match it.

For the nonviolent person, the whole world is one family. He will fear none, nor will others fear him.

It is simple impertinence for any man, or any body of men, to begin, or to contemplate, reform of the whole world.

If you want a change in the world, be the change

As the elephant is powerless to think in the terms of the ant, in spite of the best intentions in the world, even so is the Englishman powerless to think in the terms of, or legislate for, the Indian.

And he who would be friends with God must remain alone, or make the whole world his friend

I am a Hindu because it is Hinduism which makes the world worth living. I am a Hindu hence I Love not only human beings, but all living beings.

The world is touched by sacrifice. It does not then discriminate about the merits of a cause. No so God - He is all seeing. He insists on the purity of the cause and on adequate sacrifice thereof.

It is quite proper to resist and attack a system, but to resist and attack its author is tantamount to resisting and attacking oneself, for we are all tarred with the same brush, and are children of one and the same Creator, and as such the divine powers within us are infinite. To slight a single human being, is to slight those divine powers and thus to harm not only that Being, but with Him, the whole world.

If you want to change the world, be that change.