Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Earth
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No government on earth can make men, who have realized freedom in their hearts, salute against their will.
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It is a first class human tragedy that people of the earth who claim to believe in the message of Jesus, whom they describe as the Prince of Peace, show little of that belief in actual practice.
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If God holds me to be a pure instrument for the spread of nonviolence in place of the awful violence now ruling the earth, He will give me the strength and show me the way.
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Freedom of India will demonstrate to all the exploited races of the earth that their freedom is very near.
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There is nothing on earth that I would not give up, excepting of course, two things and two things only, truth and nonviolence.
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The earth has enough resources for our need, but not for our greed.
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The earth, the air, the land and the water are not an inheritance from our fore fathers but on loan from our children. So we have to handover to them at least as it was handed over to us.
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God resides in every human form, indeed in every particle of His creations, in everything that is on his earth.
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God has blessed man with seed that has the highest potency and woman with a field richer than the richest earth to be found anywhere on his globe.
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No power on earth can resist the lovers of liberty who are ready not to kill opponents, but be killed by them.
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My varnashram refuses to bow the head before the greatest potentate on earth, but my varnashram compels me to bow down my head in all humility before knowledge, purity, before every person where I see God face to face.
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God is the hardest taskmaster I have known on this earth, and he tries you through and through. And when you find that your faith is failing or your body is failing you, and you are sinking, he comes to your assistance somehow or other and proves to you that you must not lose your faith and that he is always at your beck and call, but on his terms, not on your terms. So I have found. I cannot really recall a single instance when, at the eleventh hour, he has forsaken me.
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The most violent weapon on earth is the table fork.
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My religion enables me, obliges me to imbibe all that is good in all the great religions of the earth.
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God is the hardest taskmaster I have known on this earth and He tries you through and through.
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What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.
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The man who eats to live, who is friends with the five powers - earth, water, ether, sun and air - who is a servant of God, the Creator of all these, ought not to fall ill.
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The earth has everything for all human needs, but nothing for his greed.
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All society is held together by nonviolence even as the earth is held in her position by gravitation.
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... man was not born a carnivorous animal, but born to live on the fruits and herbs that the earth grows. I know we must all err. I would give up milk if I could, but I cannot. I have made that experiment times without number. I could not, after a serious illness, regain my strength, unless I went back to milk. That has been the tragedy of my life. But the basis of my vegetarianism is not physical, but moral. If anybody said that I should die if I did not take beef tea or mutton, even on medical advice, I would prefer death. That is the basis of my vegetarianism.
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The good man is the friend of all living things.
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I own no enemy on earth. That is my creed.
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Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day: - I shall not fear anyone on Earth. - I shall fear only God. - I shall not bear ill will toward anyone. - I shall not submit to injustice from anyone. - I shall conquer untruth by truth. And in resisting untruth, I shall put up with all suffering.
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The khadi spirit means fellow-feeling with every human being on earth.
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I want to realize brotherhood or identity not merely with the beings called human, but I want to realize identity with all life, even with such things as crawl upon earth.
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Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.
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Independence of my conception means nothing less than the realization of the "Kingdom of God" within you and on this earth.
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Ahimsa is one of the world's great principles, which no power on earth can wipe out.
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To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.
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That religion and that nation will be blotted out of the face of the earth which pins its faith on injustice, untruth or violence.
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Mahatma Gandhi
- Born: October 2, 1869
- Died: January 30, 1948
- Occupation: Civil rights leader
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