10 Mahatma Gandhi Quotes on Society

Mahatma Gandhi quotes on society

13. Seven social sins: politics without principles, wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, and worship without sacrifice.

34. 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.

51. I regard women as an incarnation of tolerance.

77. I am sternly opposed to giving alms to sturdy beggars.

163. I do not believe in the doctrine of the greatest good of the greatest number. The only real, dignified, human doctrine is the greatest good of all.

185. It is the law of love that rules mankind. Had violence, i.e. hate, ruled us we should have become extinct long ago. And yet, the tragedy of it is that the so-called civilized men and nations conduct themselves as if the basis of society was violence.

217. The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

224. The spirit of democracy cannot be imposed from without. It has to come from within.

248. Why change the world when we can change ourselves?

252. 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.