Mahatma Gandhi Quotes on God
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, known as Mahatma Gandhi, was an Indian lawyer, political leader, and philosopher who developed the doctrine and practice of satyagraha, nonviolent civil resistance, into a transformative form of political action. This page collects quotes attributed to Mahatma Gandhi on the topic of god, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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“I'm 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.”
1920s | Young India (21 January 1927) -
“Disobedience is a right that belongs to every human being, and it becomes a sacred duty when it springs from civility.”
1920s | Young India (4 January 1926) -
“What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy?”
1940s | Non-Violence in Peace and War , 1942, Vol. 1, Ch. 142 -
“If India adopted the doctrine of love as an active part of her religion and introduced it in her politics. Swaraj would descend upon India from heaven. But I am painfully aware that that event is far off as yet.”
1920s | "A Word of Explanation" in Young India (January 1921) -
“Satan 's successes are the greatest when he appears with the name of God on his lips.”
1920s | "The Inwardness of Non-Co-operation". Quoted in Freedom's Battle: Being a Comprehensive Collection of Writings and Speeches (1922), p. 144 . -
“I do regard Islam to be a religion of peace in the same sense as Christianity , Buddhism and Hinduism are.”
1920s | Young India , January 20, 1927, in Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi , vol. 32, p. 588.