11 Mahatma Gandhi Quotes on Unity

Mahatma Gandhi quotes on unity

2. Religions are different roads converging to the same point. What does it matter that we take different road, so long as we reach the same goal.

29. If you want to give a message again to the West, it must be a message of 'Love', it must be a message of 'Truth'. There must be a conquest - [audience claps] - please, please, please. That will interfere with my speech, and that will interfere with your understanding also. I want to capture your hearts and don't want to receive your claps. Let your hearts clap in unison with what I'm saying, and I think, I shall have finished my work. Therefore, I want you to go away with the thought that Asia has to conquer the West. Then, the question that a friend asked yesterday, 'Did I believe in one world?' Of course, I believe in one world. And how can I possibly do otherwise, when I become an inheritor of the message of love that these great un-conquerable teachers left for us? You can redeliver that message now, in this age of democracy, in the age of awakening of the poorest of the poor, you can redeliver this message with the greatest emphasis.

65. All become one in face of the common danger.

81. The chief thing about theosophy is to cultivate and promote the ideal of brotherhood.

120. If all had the same belief about all matters of religion, there would be only one religion in the world.

138. Even as a tree has a single trunk but many branches and leaves, there is one religion - human religion - but any number of faiths.

144. God has no religion.

149. Hinduism insists on the brotherhood of not only all mankind but of all that lives.

196. My whole soul rebels against the idea that Hinduism and Islam represent two antagonistic cultures and doctrines. To assent to such a doctrine is for me a denial of God.

240. We must always seek to ally ourselves with that part of the enemy that knows what is right.

255. If you want to give a message again to the West, it must be a message of 'Love', it must be a message of 'Truth'. There must be a conquest [claps], please, please, please. That will interfere with my speech, and that will interfere with your understanding also. I want to capture your hearts and don't want to receive your claps. Let your hearts clap in unison with what I'm saying, and I think, I shall have finished my work. Therefore, I want you to go away with the thought that Asia has to conquer the West. Then, the question that a friend asked yesterday, 'Did I believe in one world?' Of course, I believe in one world. And how can I possibly do otherwise, when I become an inheritor of the message of love that these great un-conquerable teachers left for us? (One World - april 2, 1947 - New Delhi)