Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Environment
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It would be a sad day for India if it has to inherit the English scale and the English tastes so utterly unsuitable to the Indian environment.
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Nonviolence is a universal principle and its operation is not limited by a hostile environment.
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The socialistic conception of the West was born in an environment reeking with violence.
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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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Children inherit the qualities of the parents, no less than their physical features. Environment does play an important part, but the original capital on which a child starts in life is inherited from its ancestors. I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
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There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.
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Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.
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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.
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Live simply that others might simply live.
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Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
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The message of Jesus has proved ineffective because the environment was unready to receive it.
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Mahatma Gandhi
- Born: October 2, 1869
- Died: January 30, 1948
- Occupation: Civil rights leader