Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

When we choose for ourselves, we also choose for others.

Our story is never written in isolation. We do not act in a one-man play. We can do nothing that does not affect other people, no matter how loudly we say, "It's my own business.

Each affects the other, and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.

We are not living in a private world of our own. Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.

What influences our behavior, and what our level of responsibility is, are very complex issues. And anytime we try to make this simplistic, we don't serve people well.

We are bothered a good deal by people who assume the responsibility of the world when God is neglectful.

All your acts affect all the people, people that you don't even know. So we have to live with responsibility. We have to live knowing that we're not the only ones here and you're affecting somebody else always.

Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order.

Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.

I think we all change each other's paths. I don't know which law idea that is in physics, but I don't think any of us can live without affecting one another.

I always try to remain aware that what affects others affects me, too.

I think we're innately good. But it doesn't mean we're gonna do good all the time. It means you have to strive.

Everything connects to everything; therefore, as we change, the world cannot but change with us.

To slight a single human being, is to slight those divine powers and thus to harm not only that being but with him, the whole world.

I suppose the human race is doing the best it can but hells bells thats only an explanation its not an excuse.

We cannot look to the conscience of the world when our own conscience is asleep.

The Almighty gave us our lives, and I suppose He meant us to defend them, at least I have always acted on that, and I hope it will not be brought up against me when my clock strikes.

If somebody murders somewhere, I have a part in it. Even if I am a sleeper - I was sleeping, I don´t know about the man, I will never hear about him - and somebody somewhere, in the Himalayas, commits a murder, if we are not individuals I have a part in it, I am also responsible. It is not so easy to throw the responsibility: "I am not committing a murder, I am a saint." No saint is a saint because every sinner is implied in him.

Remember that every man is a variation of yourself. No man's guilt is not yours, nor is any man's innocence a thing apart.

Unless we lay our course in accordance with this principle, the great power for good in the world with which we have been intrusted by a Divine Providence will be turned to a power for evil.

It's all connected. When you save any part of the world, you've saved the whole world. In fact, that's the only way it can be done.

I'm not a proponent of people watching a movie, and then going out and doing something bad. People have been doing bad things, well before movies.

Delimitation is always difficult. The world is one, life is one. The sweetest and most heavenly of activities partake in some measure of violence - the act of love, for instance; music, for instance.

What affects one in a major way, affects all in a minor way.

I have just discovered something I have always known: we can no more escape from one another than we can escape from God.