Mahatma Gandhi Civilization Quotations

My Swaraj is to keep intact the genius of our civilization.

Civilizations have come and gone and, in spite of our vaunted progress, I am tempted to ask again and again, 'To what purpose?'

Civilization is that mode of conduct which points out to man the path of duty.

This civilization is such that one has only to be patient and it will be self-destroyed.

Is a civilization worth the name, which requires, for its existence the very doubtful prop of a racial legislation and a lynch law?

Modern civilization has taught us to convert night into day and golden silence into brazen din and noise.

The truest test of civilization, culture and dignity is character and not clothing.

Further march of civilization seems to employ increasing domination of man over beast, together with a growingly humane method of using them.

I want co-operation between nations for the salvaging of civilization, but co-operation presupposes free nations worthy of co-operation.

A civilization based on nonviolence must be different from that organized for violence.

The British Government in India constitutes a struggle between modern civilization, which is the Kingdom of Satan, and the ancient civilization, which is the Kingdom of God.

Our non-co-operation is with the system the English have established in India, with the material civilization and its attendant greed and exploitation of the weak.

You cannot build nonviolence on a factory civilization, but it can be built on self-contained villages.

The very essence of our civilization is that we give a paramount place to morality in all our affairs, public or private.

Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization.

Civilization is the encouragement of differences.

Civilization is that mode of conduct which points out to man the path of duty. Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms. To observe morality is to attain mastery over our mind and our passions. So doing, we know ourselves.

Civilization, in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication, but in the deliberate and voluntary reduction of wants.

Machinery is the chief symbol of modern civilization; it represents a great sin.

Remember there is always a limit to self-indulgence, none to restraint... Civilization , in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication but in the deliberate and voluntary restriction of wants. This alone promotes real happiness and contentment , and increases the capacity for service .

Civilization is not an incurable disease, but it should never be forgotten that the English people are at present afflicted by it.