Mahatma Gandhi Love Quotations

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.

A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.

There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.

We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my activities run into one another and they have their rise in my insatiable love of mankind

Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the humblest imaginable

Love never claims, it ever gives; love never suffers, never resents, never revenges itself. Where there is love there is life; hatred leads to destruction.

Remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, ALWAYS.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Peace between countries must rest on the solid foundation of love between individuals.

If we are to reach real peace in this world and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with children; and if they will grow up in their natural innocence, we won't have to struggle; we won't have to pass fruitless idle resolutions, but we shall go from love to love and peace to peace, until at last all the corners of the world are covered with that peace and love for which consciously or unconsciously the whole world is hungering.

I love Christianity, Islam and many other faiths - through Hinduism.

The notion of education through handicrafts rises from the contemplation of truth and love permeating life's activities.

The force of love is the same as the force of the soul or truth.

Swadeshi is the only doctrine consistent with the law of humanity and love.

Forgiveness is choosing to love.

The finite human being shall never know in its fullness Truth and Love which is itself infinite.

Love and exclusive possession can never go together.

Love based upon indulgence of animal passion, is at best a selfish affair, and likely to snap under the slightest strain.

Love can never express itself by imposing sufferings on others. It can only express itself by self-suffering, by self-purification.

Love is no love which asks for a return.

Love is the basis of our friendship as it is of religion.

The law of love knows no bounds of space or time.

Love is needed to strengthen the weak; love becomes tyrannical when it exacts obedience from an unbeliever.

If light can come out of darkness, then alone can love emerge from hatred.

My fast is, among other things, meant to qualify me for achieving that equal and selfless love.

My freedom from hatred - I would even claim for myself individually, my love - for those who consider themselves to be my enemies, does not make me blind to their faults.

My love of nationalism is that my country may become free, and if need be, the whole of the country die, so that the human race may live.

My nonviolence demands universal love, and you are not a small part of it.

My only sanction is the love and affection in which you hold me. But it has its weaknesses, as it has its strengths.

My religion teaches me to love all equally.

I cannot think of permanent enmity between man and man.

Free, open love I have looked upon as dog's love. Secret love is, besides, cowardly.

Of what avail is my love if it be only so long as I trust my friend?

It is a heavy downpour of rain which drenches the soil to fullness; likewise only a profuse shower of love can overcome hatred.

A seeker after truth, a follower of the law of Love, cannot hold anything against tomorrow.

The call of the spinning wheel is the noblest of all. Because it is the call of love. And love is Swaraj.

Where there is love there is life.

Love is the strongest force the world possesses and yet it is the humblest imaginable.

Nothing is impossible for pure love.

The law of love could be best understood and learned through little children.

Hate the sin, love the sinner.

Hatred can be overcome only by love.

It is my great misfortune that I have to measure your love by the money gifts you give for Daridranarayana.

Where love is, there God is also.

Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

In doing something, do it with love or never do it at all.

What barrier is there that love cannot break?

True love is boundless like the ocean and, swelling within one, spreads itself out and, crossing all boundaries and frontiers, envelops the whole world.

Whether humanity will consciously follow the law of love, I do not know. But that need not disturb me. The law will work just as the law of gravitation works whether we accept it or not.

The pure love of one soul can offset the hatred of millions.

Action expresses priorities.

Love never claims, it ever gives. Love ever suffers, never resents never revenges itself.

Our peaceful non-co-operation must be constructive, non-destructive. Poison should not emerge from the throes of love.

Love is a rare herb that makes a friend even of a sworn enemy and this herb grows out of nonviolence.

I believe that the sum total of the energy of mankind is not to bring us down but to lift us up, and that is the result of the definite, if unconscious, working of the law of love. The fact that mankind persists shows that the cohesive force is greater than the disruptive force, centripetal force greater than centrifugal.

Love is the humblest yet the most powerful force that the human being has.

My imperfections and failures are as much a blessing from God as my successes and my talents and I lay them both at his feet.

Hatred ever kills, love never dies. Such is the vast difference between the two. What is obtained by love is retained for all time. What is obtained by hatred proves a burden in reality for it increases hatred." - by Mohandas K. Gandhi -

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Love is the law of life.

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.

It may be long before the law of love will be recognised in international affairs. The machineries of government stand between and hide the hearts of one people from those of another.

The only way love punishes in by suffering.

I can combine the greatest love with the greatest opposition to wrong.

If you approached people with trust and affection you would have ten-fold trust and thousand-fold.

Love is the subtlest force in the world.

If love wasn't the law of life, life would not have persisted in the midst of death.

Love transcends all animosity and is never partial.

If you`d be loved, be worthy to be love

... we have to learn to use that force (love) among all that lives, and in the use of it consists our knowledge of God. Where there is love there is life; hatred leads to destruction.

Infinite Love is a weapon of matchless potency. It is the 'summum bonum' of life. It is an attribute of the brave, in fact it is their all. It does not come within the each of the coward. It is no wooden of lifeless dogma but a living and life-giving.

A love that is based on the goodness of those whom you love is a mercenary affair.

It was our love of foreign cloth that ousted the wheel from its position of dignity.

To me God is truth and love, God is ethics and morality, God is fearlessness.

Though God may be Love, God is Truth above all.

There is no love where there is no will

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.

Ahimsa and love are one and the same thing.

One who hooks his fortune to ahimsa, the law of love, daily lessens the circle of destruction and to that extent promotes life and love.