Mahatma Gandhi Quotes about Giving - Page 2

If it is possible for the human tongue to give the fullest description of God, I have come to the conclusion that God is Truth.

If it is possible for the human tongue to give the fullest description of God, I have come to the conclusion that God is Truth.

Mahatma Gandhi

God, Giving, Tongue

Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.66, A&C Black

I cannot in all conscience agree to anyone being sent to the gallows. God alone can take life because He alone gives it . . .

Mahatma Gandhi

Giving, Death Penalty, Gallows

"India must do away with the death penalty" by Seema Sengupta, www.theguardian.com. November 23, 2012.

If we could all give our own definitions of God, there would be as many definitions as there are men and women.

Mahatma Gandhi

God, Men, Giving

Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.195, Vintage

Hinduism has sinned in giving sanction to untouchability.

Mahatma Gandhi

Giving, Hinduism, Sanctions

Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings”, p.164, Grove Press

If God gives me the privilege of dying for the Hinduism of my conception, I shall have sufficiently died for the unity of all and even for Swaraj.

Mahatma Gandhi

Giving, Unity, Dying

Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

If I know Hinduism at all, it is essentially inclusive and ever-growing, ever-responsive. It gives the freest scope for imagination, speculation and reason.

Mahatma Gandhi

Giving, Imagination, Growing

Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

Cent percent swadeshi gives sufficient scope for the most insatiable ambition for service and a satisfaction of every kind of talent.

Mahatma Gandhi

Ambition, Giving, Satisfaction

Give the villagers village arithmetic, village geography, village history and the literary knowledge that they must use daily, i.e. reading and writing letters, etc.

Mahatma Gandhi

Reading, Writing, Giving

Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.183, Rajpal & Sons

Civil disobedience is the assertion of a right which law should give but which it denies.

Mahatma Gandhi

Law, Giving, Deny

My ahimsa would not tolerate the idea of giving a free meal to a healthy person who has not worked for it in some honest way.

Mahatma Gandhi

Ideas, Giving, Healthy

Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.63, Rajpal & Sons

There must be power in the word of a satyagraha general, not the power that the possession of limitless arms gives, but the power that purifies life which strict vigilance and a ceaseless application produce.

Mahatma Gandhi

Giving, Arms, Limitless

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

Mahatma Gandhi

Giving, India, World

Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer and gives him a sense of peace and joy. The Buddha gave up the pleasures of life because they had become painful to him.

Mahatma Gandhi

Real, Sacrifice, Giving

Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “The Problem of Education”

I do not want any patronage, as I do not give any. I am a lover of my own liberty, and so I would do nothing to restrict yours. I simply want to please my own conscience which is God.

Mahatma Gandhi

Giving, Religion, Liberty

Mahatma Gandhi (1927). “Young India”

Man has always desired power. Ownership of property gives this power. Man hankers also after posthumous fame based on power.

Mahatma Gandhi

Men, Giving, Fame

Mahatma Gandhi (1970). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

Infinite Love is a weapon of matchless potency. It is the 'summum bonum' of life. It is an attribute of the brave, in fact it is their all. It does not come within the each of the coward. It is no wooden of lifeless dogma but a living and life-giving.

Mahatma Gandhi

Love Is, Giving, Brave

Love never claims, it ever gives. Love ever suffers, never resents never revenges itself.

Mahatma Gandhi

Love, Revenge, Giving

Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.198, Tara Publishing

A journalist's peculiar function is to read the mind of the country and to give definite and fearless expression to that mind.

Mahatma Gandhi

Country, Expression, Giving

Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

Tolerance gives us spiritual insight, which is as far from fanaticism as the north pole is from the south.

Mahatma Gandhi

Spiritual, Giving, Tolerance

Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.51, Courier Corporation

It is my great misfortune that I have to measure your love by the money gifts you give for Daridranarayana.

Mahatma Gandhi

Love, Giving, Misfortunes

Mahatma Gandhi (1929). “Young India”

One of the objects of a newspaper is to understand popular feeling and to give expression to it; another is to arouse among the people certain desirable sentiments; and the third is fearlessly to expose popular defects.

Mahatma Gandhi

Expression, People, Giving

Mahatma Gandhi, Anthony J. Parel (1997). “Gandhi: 'Hind Swaraj' and Other Writings”, p.13, Cambridge University Press

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.

Mahatma Gandhi

God, Giving, Violence

Mahatma Gandhi (194?). “Gandhi's Beads of Wisdow: A Synopsis of Gandhiji's Utterances on Truth and Non-violence”

The privilege of resisting or disobeying a particular law or order accrues only to him who gives willing and unswerving obedience to the laws laid down for him.

Mahatma Gandhi

Order, Law, Giving

I invite even the school of violence to give this peaceful non-co-operation a trial.

Mahatma Gandhi

School, Giving, Peaceful

Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.159, Tara Publishing

It is the duty of a non-co-operator to preach disaffection towards the existing order of things. Non-co-operators are but giving disciplined expression to a nation's outraged feelings.

Mahatma Gandhi

Expression, Order, Giving

Mahatma Gandhi (1924). “Young India: 1919-1922”