All MAHATMA GANDHI Quotes about “Children”

“I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.”
“I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.”
“If we are to reach real peace in this world and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with children; and if they will grow up in their natural innocence, we won't have to struggle; we won't have to pass fruitless idle resolutions, but we shall go from love to love and peace to peace, until at last all the corners of the world are covered with that peace and love for which consciously or unconsciously the whole world is hungering.”
“If we wish to create a lasting peace we must begin with the children.”
“If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.”
“The earth, the air, the land and the water are not an inheritance from our fore fathers but on loan from our children. So we have to handover to them at least as it was handed over to us.”
“The law of love could be best understood and learned through little children.”
“A mother would never by choice sleep in a wet bed but she would gladly do so in order to spare the dry bed for her child.”
“If we are to create peace in our world, we must begin with our children.”
“If you want real peace in the world, start with children.”
“The greatest lessons in life, if we would but stoop and humble ourselves, we would learn not from the grown-up learned men, but from the so-called ignorant children.”
“What is impossible with man is child's play with God.”
“What is impossible with man is child's play with God.”
“Experience gained in two schools under my control has taught me that punishment does not purify, if anything, it hardens children.”
“Experience gained in two schools under my control has taught me that punishment does not purify, if anything, it hardens children.”
“India must protect her primary industries even as a mother protects her children against the whole world without being hostile to it.”
“India must protect her primary industries even as a mother protects her children against the whole world without being hostile to it.”
“If a single man demanded as much as a man with a wife and four children, then that would be a violation of the concept of economic equality.”
“If a single man demanded as much as a man with a wife and four children, then that would be a violation of the concept of economic equality.”
“Our children should not be so taught as to despise labour.”
“Our children should not be so taught as to despise labour.”
“The object of basic education is the physical, intellectual and moral development of children through the medium of handicraft.”
“The object of basic education is the physical, intellectual and moral development of children through the medium of handicraft.”
“In matters concerning religion, I consider myself not a child but an adult with 35 years of experience.”
“In matters concerning religion, I consider myself not a child but an adult with 35 years of experience.”
“Khaddar is an activity that can absorb all the time of all available men and women and grown-up children, if they have faith.”
“Khaddar is an activity that can absorb all the time of all available men and women and grown-up children, if they have faith.”
“God of Truth and Justice can never create distinctions of high and low among His own children.”
“God of Truth and Justice can never create distinctions of high and low among His own children.”
“A wretched parent who claims obedience from his children, without first doing his duty by them, excites nothing but contempt.”
“A wretched parent who claims obedience from his children, without first doing his duty by them, excites nothing but contempt.”
“It is quite proper to resist and attack a system, but to resist and attack its author is tantamount to resisting and attacking oneself, for we are all tarred with the same brush, and are children of one and the same Creator, and as such the divine powers within us are infinite. 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.”
“It is quite proper to resist and attack a system, but to resist and attack its author is tantamount to resisting and attacking oneself, for we are all tarred with the same brush, and are children of one and the same Creator, and as such the divine powers within us are infinite. 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.”
“By education, I mean an all-round drawing of the best in child and man in body, mind and spirit.”
“By education, I mean an all-round drawing of the best in child and man in body, mind and spirit.”

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