Mahatma Gandhi World Quotations

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

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

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

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

Nobody in this world possesses absolute truth.

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

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

I hold that the world is sick of armed rebellions.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

The world cannot be successfully fooled for all time.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Eye for eye and the world will go blind.

We must be the world we want to create.

Seven blunders of the world that lead to violence.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Nonviolent action means mobilization of world opinion in our favour.

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.

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

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

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

Hinduism is a relentless pursuit of Truth. "Truth is God" and if today it has become moribund, inactive, irresponsive to growth, it is because we are fatigued; and as soon as the fatigue is over, Hinduism will burst upon the world with a brilliance perhaps unknown before.

Hate the sin and not the sinner' is a precept which, though easy enough to understand, is rarely practiced, and that is why the poison of hatred spreads in the world.

Live like Jesus did, and the world will listen.

Our greatest ability as humans is not to change the world; but to change ourselves.

There is enough for the need of everyone in this world, but not for the greed of everyone.

Vaccination is a barbarous practice and one of the most fatal of all the delusions current in our time. Conscientious objectors to vaccination should stand alone, if need be, against the whole world, in defense of their conviction.

God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west... keeping the world in chains. If [our nation] took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts.

Democracy, disciplined and enlightened, is the finest thing in the world.

The golden way is to be friends with the world and to regard the whole human family as one.

What you feel and how you react to something is always up to you. There may be a "normal" or a common way to react to different things. But that's mostly just all it is.

If we are to create peace in our world, we must begin with our children.

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.

Nobody in this world possesses absolute truth. This is God's attribute alone. Relative truth is all we know. Therefore, we can only follow the truth as we see it. Such pursuit of truth cannot lead anyone astray.

If all Christians acted like Christ, the whole world would be Christian.

I will not be a traitor of God to please the whole world.

Cow protection is the gift of Hinduism to the world.

If a man were so placed or could so place himself as to be absolutely above all dependence on his fellow-beings he would become so proud and arrogant as to be a veritable burden and nuisance to the world.

If one person gains spiritually, the whole world gains

I should love to satisfy all, if I possibly can; but in trying to satisfy all, I may be able to satisfy none. I have, therefore, arrived at the conclusion that the best course is to satisfy one’s own conscience and leave the world to form its own judgment, favorable or otherwise.

I believe in trusting. Trust begets trust. Suspicion is foetid and only stinks. He who trusts has never yet lost in the world.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Love is the subtlest force in the world.

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

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

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.

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.

"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.