Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Human Nature
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Dignity of human nature requires that we must face the storms of life.
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I am not conscious of a single experience throughout my three months' stay in England and Europe that made me feel that after all East is East and West is West. On the contrary, I have been convinced more than ever that human nature is much the same, no matter under what clime it flourishes, and that if you approached people with trust and affection you would have ten-fold trust and thousand-fold affection returned to you.
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Human nature will find itself only when it fully realizes that to be human it has to cease to be beastly or brutal.
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H. G. Wells was not the only one to mention Churchill and Hitler in the same breath: "Churchill and Hitler are striving to change the nature of their respective countrymen by forcing and hammering violent methods on them. Man may be suppressed in this manner but he cannot be changed. Ahimsa [non-violence in the Hindu tradition], on the other hand, can change human nature and sooner than men like Churchill and Hitler."
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No one should dogmatize about the capacity of human nature for degradation or exaltation.
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Belief in non-violence is based on the assumption that human nature in the essence is one and therefore unfailingly responds to the advances of love.
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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.
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If you think the world is all wrong, remember that it contains people like you.
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Not to believe in the possibility of permanent peace is to disbelieve in the Godliness of human nature.
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You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
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I refuse to believe that the tendency of human nature is always downward.
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We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.
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Mahatma Gandhi
- Born: October 2, 1869
- Died: January 30, 1948
- Occupation: Civil rights leader
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