Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.

To support policies that dehumanise others is to dehumanise yourself.

One cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own.

In morals, theosophy builds its teachings on the unity, seeing in each form the expression of a common life, and therefore the fact that what injures one injures all. To do evil i.e., to throw poison into the life-blood of humanity, is a crime against the unity.

One must love humanity in order to reach out into the unique essence of each individual: no one can be too low or too ugly.

Realizing our society as it is, without theology dogmatically telling us how we should react to it, and being humane toward that society, that is all that we're sure of.

I just see myself as a human being that's concerned about life.

For me, love is not about froufrou New Age-ism. It's about a way of living and honoring the interconnectedness of life and accepting our responsibility and our power to change the world for the better.

The measure of a decent human being is how he or she treats the defenseless.

If everyone howled at every injustice, every act of barbarism, every act of unkindness, then we would be taking the first step towards a real humanity.

The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain violence - reverance for human life and the environment.

Nobody should consider himself superior to another nor do him harm.

It will do all of us good if every child begins to learn that they’re endowed by the Creator and, by the way, so is the person next to them … So if you’re a rapist, the person you’re raping is endowed by God.

The things that divide us in politics are infinitesimal compared with the dignity of our common humanity.

The worst mistake anyone can make is to perceive anyone else as lesser. The deeper you look into other souls - and writing is primarily an exercise in doing just that - the clearer people's inherent dignity becomes.

Even though we may focus first on the rights of our own country, that does not mean that we should disregard the rights of everyone else.

If you have any racist friends, it's on you to stop that immediately and let them know why that's not right, or what's wrong with the way they think or just opening their eyes and allowing them to understand what's wrong with their thought process because, to be honest, I mean, we're all human.

People are different from one another. That's what makes the world good. That's what makes the world great.

I'm not sure anything makes you an outright good person or bad person - that we're all capable of doing good or bad things. And if you want to know how much good you can do, and how much hurt you can do, just ask somebody you love.

It's a principle of my philosophy that you have to respect the individual human being.

We have to be a nation of compassion and some sort of humanity when it comes to the treatment of other human beings.

Aren't we all human? Don't we all deserve to be respected and treated equally?

Classical theology defines sin as 'rebellion against God.' The answer is not incorrect as much as it is shallow and insulting to the human being. Every person deserves to be treated with dignity even if he or she is a 'rebellious sinner'.

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

Nonviolence is essentially based on recognizing the humanity in every one one of us.