All MAHATMA GANDHI Quotes about “Affairs”

“If I were a dictator, religion and state would be separate. I swear by my religion. I will die for it. But it is my personal affair. The state has nothing to do with it. The state would look after your secular welfare, health, communications, foreign relations, currency and so on, but not your or my religion. That is everybody's personal concern!”
“Ahimsa is the attribute of the soul, and therefore, to be practiced by everybody in all affairs of life. If it cannot be practiced in all departments, it has no practical value.”
“A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.”
“This feeling of helplessness in us has arisen from our deliberate dismissal of God from our common affairs.”
“The very essence of our civilization is that we give a paramount place to morality in all our affairs, public or private.”
“If you want to play your part in the world's affairs, you must refuse to deck yourselves for pleasing man.”
“Love based upon indulgence of animal passion, is at best a selfish affair, and likely to snap under the slightest strain.”
“Education in the understanding of citizenship is a short-term affair if we are honest and earnest.”
“It may be long before the law of love will be recognised in international affairs. The machineries of government stand between and hide the hearts of one people from those of another.”
“Happiness, the goal to which we all are striving is reached by endeavoring to make the lives of others happy, and if by renouncing the luxuries of life we can lighten the burdens of others.... surely the simplification of our wants is a thing greatly to be desired! And so, if instead of supposing that we must become hermits and dwellers in caves in order to practice simplicity, we set about simplifying our affairs, each according to his own convictions and opportunity, much good will result and the simple life will at once be established.”
“A love that is based on the goodness of those whom you love is a mercenary affair.”
“If one does not practice nonviolence in one's own personal relations with others and hopes to use it in bigger affairs, one is vastly mistaken.”

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