Browse 4898 quotes about Mankind.
“Man does not live by destruction.”
Source: Gandhi: Selected Writings
“Man is not at peace with himself till he has become like unto God.”
Source: The Bhagavad Gita According to Gandhi
“A man who would interpret the scriptures must have the spiritual discipline.”
Source: The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts
“Man is neither mere intellect not the gross animal body, nor the heart or soul alone.”
“Man cannot breathe with borrowed lungs.”
Source: Collected Works
“Men of stainless character and self purification will easily inspire confidence and automatically purify the atmosphere around them.”
Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi
“Man becomes not the lord and master of all creation but he is its servant.”
Source: Volume of prefaces
“Man is the maker of his own destiny, and I therefore ask you to become makers of your own destiny.”
“Man has always desired power. Ownership of property gives this power. Man hankers also after posthumous fame based on power.”
Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi
“Man the law-giver will have to pay a dreadful penalty for the degradation he has imposed upon the so called weaker sex.”
Source: The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas
“The man who coerces another not to eat fish commits more violence than he who eats it.”
Source: Hindu Dharma
“A courageous man prefers death to the surrender of self-respect.”
Source: Homage to the Departed
“Nonviolence is the virtue of the manly. The coward is innocent of it.”
Source: The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts
“Bravery is not man's monopoly.”
Source: The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi
“A man can give up a right, but he may not give up a duty without being guilty of a grave dereliction.”
Source: Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects
“Man is not to drown himself in the well of the Shastras, but he is to dive in their broad ocean and bring out pearls.”
Source: All Men are Brothers: Life and Thoughts of Mahatma Gandhi as Told in His Own Words
“Man is oftentimes weak-minded enough to be caught in the snare of greed and honeyed words.”
“A man or a woman who serves the country with all his or her heart stands on par with the tallest Congress-man.”
“Man is born of woman, he is flesh of her flesh and bone of her bone.”
Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi
“Men to be men must be able to trust their womenfolk, even as the latter are compelled to trust them.”
Source: Gandhi on Women: Collection of Mahatma Gandhi's Writings and Speeches on Women
“Man has regarded woman as his tool. She has learnt to be his tool and in the end found it is easy and pleasurable to be such, because when one drags another in his fall, the descent is easy.”
Source: The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings
“No man could look upon another as his enemy, unless he first became his own enemy.”
Source: To the Protagonists of Pakistan
“Man cannot be transformed from bad to good overnight.”
Source: The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi
“It is for you and me to show that no vice is inherent in man.”
Source: Collected Works
“I must refuse to believe that the Germans contemplate with equanimity the evacuation of cities like London for fear of destruction to be wrought by man's inhuman ingenuity.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi
“My own opinion is that just as fundamentally man and woman are one, their problems must be one in essence.”
Source: The Penguin Gandhi Reader
“The Swaraj of my dream is the poor man's Swaraj.”
Source: India of My Dreams
“It is my firm faith that man is by nature going higher.”
Source: The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas
“I believe in advaita, I believe in the essential unity of man and for that matter of all that lives.”
Source: All Men Are Brothers
“If Euclid's point, though incapable of being drawn by any human agency, has an imperishable value, my picture has its own for mankind to live.”
Source: Gandhi: 'Hind Swaraj' and Other Writings
“I believe in conversion of mankind, not its destruction.”
Source: The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Non-Violent Resistance and Social Transformation
“I hold no man to be indispensable for the welfare of the country.”
Source: Young India, 1924-1926
“I cannot picture to myself a time when all mankind will have one religion.”
Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi
“I regard Duryodhana and his party as the baser impulses in man, and Arjuna and his party as the higher impulses.”
Source: The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas
“I have discovered that man is superior to the system he propounds.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi
“If I am true to myself, if I am true to mankind, if I am true to humanity, I must understand all the faults that human flesh is heir to.”
Source: Gandhi on Nehru
“I refuse to believe that the tendency of human nature is always downward.”
Source: The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts
“A man like me cannot but believe that this earthquake is a divine chastisement sent by God for our sins.”
Source: Volume of prefaces
“Mankind is one, seeing that all are equally subject to the moral law. All men are equal in God's eyes.”
Source: All Men Are Brothers
“Some form of common worship and a common place of worship appear to be a human necessity.”
Source: The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi
“Man's upward progress means ever increasing difficulty, which is to be welcomed.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi
“Every man has an equal right to the necessaries of life even as birds and beasts have.”
Source: All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections
“A selfish basis would not serve the purpose of taking a man higher and higher along the paths of evolution.”
Source: Collected Works
“All the great religions of the world inculcate equality and brotherhood of mankind and the virtue of toleration.”
Source: All Religions are True
“A man who wants to control his animal passions easily does so if he controls his palate.”
Source: The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings
“No two men are absolutely alike, not even twins, yet there is much that is indispensably common to all mankind.”
Source: The Mahatma and the Poet: Letters and Debates Between Gandhi and Tagore, 1915-1941
“Mankind has to get out of violence only through non-violence.”
Source: Gandhi on Non-violence
“Human dignity demands courage to defend oneself.”
“A man's true wealth hereafter is the good he has done to his fellowmen.”
Source: Collected Works
“The fact that mankind persists shows that the cohesive force is greater than the disruptive force, centripetal force greater than centrifugal.”
Source: Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi