Civilization 5 Gandhi Quotes & Sayings

And so it's interesting to remember that when Mahatma Gandhi, the father of an earlier freedom movement, came to England and was asked what he thought of English civilization, he replied: 'I think it would be a good idea. — Salman Rushdie

Is a civilization worth the name, which requires, for its existence the very doubtful prop of a racial legislation and a lynch law? — Mahatma Gandhi

Civilization is that mode of conduct which points out to man the path of duty. Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms. To observe morality is to attain mastery over our mind and our passions. So doing, we know ourselves. — Mahatma Gandhi

The British Government in India constitutes a struggle between modern civilization, which is the Kingdom of Satan, and the ancient civilization, which is the Kingdom of God. — Mahatma Gandhi

On humanitarian intervention in general, I guess my view is not unlike the view that was attributed to Gandhi, accurately or not, when he was supposedly asked what he thought about western civilization. He is supposed to have said that he thought it would be a good idea. Similarly, humanitarian intervention would be a good idea, in principle. — Noam Chomsky

You cannot build nonviolence on a factory civilization, but it can be built on self-contained villages. — Mahatma Gandhi

When Gandhi was asked what he thought of Western civilization, he famously replied that "it would be a very good idea. — Yanis Varoufakis

I want co-operation between nations for the salvaging of civilization, but co-operation presupposes free nations worthy of co-operation. — Mahatma Gandhi

The main reason why Western civilization lacks Spirituality, or an awareness of our interconnectedness with one another and the universe, according to Gandhi, is that it has given priority to economic and technological development over human and community development. — Grace Lee Boggs

The truest test of civilization, culture and dignity is character and not clothing. — Mahatma Gandhi

Balance comes not only from the principal ability to discover equilibrium amid all the opposing forces of the universe, but also from the ability to recognize and harness them. The cosmos itself is a collection of all the forces that have ever existed throughout space and time. Light and dark, good and evil, the divine and the diabolical, sinner and saint, and every other set of conflicting energies that saturates the universe - these are the lifeblood that courses through us and animates our actions. It's the flow and even collision of these forces and energies that generates life itself. The history of human civilization is just another testament to this, depicting contrasts within humanity itself. For every Gandhi, there's a Hitler. For every movement bred in hate that grows and has an impact over time, there's a righteous one that counteracts and contrasts with it. It's his friction and subsequent balance between opposing forces that lays the foundation of our ongoing existence. — Deepak Chopra

The very essence of our civilization is that we give a paramount place to morality in all our affairs, public or private. — Mahatma Gandhi

A civilization based on nonviolence must be different from that organized for violence. — Mahatma Gandhi

Our non-co-operation is with the system the English have established in India, with the material civilization and its attendant greed and exploitation of the weak. — Mahatma Gandhi

Civilization is not an incurable disease, but it should never be forgotten that the English people are at present afflicted by it. — Mahatma Gandhi

Civilization is the encouragement of differences. — Mahatma Gandhi

(When asked what he thought of Western civilization): 'I think it would be a good idea. — Mahatma Gandhi

Civilizations have come and gone and, in spite of our vaunted progress, I am tempted to ask again and again, 'To what purpose?' — Mahatma Gandhi

My Swaraj is to keep intact the genius of our civilization. — Mahatma Gandhi

Machinery is the chief symbol of modern civilization; it represents a great sin. — Mahatma Gandhi

Further march of civilization seems to employ increasing domination of man over beast, together with a growingly humane method of using them. — Mahatma Gandhi

Modern civilization has taught us to convert night into day and golden silence into brazen din and noise. — Mahatma Gandhi

Rabindranath Tagore put it gently to a Western audience in New York in 1930: 'A great portion of the world suffers from your civilisation.' Mahatma Gandhi was blunter: asked what he thought of Western civilization, he replied, 'It would be a good idea'. 'The — Shashi Tharoor

Civilization, in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication, but in the deliberate and voluntary reduction of wants. — Mahatma Gandhi

It appears that, as is the case in our time with the ills of all nations, the reason lies in the lack of a reasonable religious teaching which by explaining the meaning of life would supply a supreme law for the guidance of conduct and would replace the more than dubious precepts of pseudo-religion and pseudo-science with the immoral conclusions deduced from them and commonly called 'civilization'. — Mahatma Gandhi

Remember there is always a limit to self-indulgence, none to restraint ... Civilization , in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication but in the deliberate and voluntary restriction of wants. This alone promotes real happiness and contentment , and increases the capacity for service . — Mahatma Gandhi

This civilization is such that one has only to be patient and it will be self-destroyed. — Mahatma Gandhi

What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea. — Mahatma Gandhi

I believe that the civilization India evolved is not to be beaten in the world. Nothing can equal the seeds sown by our ancestors, Rome went, Greece shared the same fate; the might of the Pharaohs was broken; Japan has become Westernized; of China nothing can be said; but India is still, somehow or other, sound at the foundation. — Mahatma Gandhi