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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 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.

Mahatma Gandhi
Children, Father, Air

If you want real peace in the world, start with children.

Mahatma Gandhi
Inspirational, Children, Real

The object of basic education is the physical, intellectual and moral development of children through the medium of handicraft.

Mahatma Gandhi
Children, Moral Development, Intellectual
Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.178, Rajpal & Sons

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.

Mahatma Gandhi
Children, Struggle, World
Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.84, A&C Black

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.

Mahatma Gandhi
Peace, Children, Real
Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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.

Mahatma Gandhi
Mother, Children, Sleep
Mahatma Gandhi (1949). “Selected Letters”

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.

Mahatma Gandhi
Children, Men, Equality

I consider writing as a fine art. We kill it by imposing the alphabet on little children and making it the beginning of learning.

Mahatma Gandhi
Art, Children, Writing
Mahatma Gandhi (1976). “Collected Works”

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.

Mahatma Gandhi
Children, Life Lesson, Humble
Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.226, Rajpal & Sons

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.

Mahatma Gandhi
Spiritual, Children, Evil
Mahatma Gandhi (1948). “Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth”, p.276, Courier Corporation

If we wish to create a lasting peace we must begin with the children.

Mahatma Gandhi
Peace, Children, Wish

What is impossible with man is child's play with God.

Mahatma Gandhi
God, Children, Men
Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.227, Rajpal & Sons

In matters concerning religion, I consider myself not a child but an adult with 35 years of experience.

Mahatma Gandhi
Children, Years, Religion
Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Collected Works”

A general belief seems to prevail in the colony that the Indians are little better, if at all, than the savages or natives of Africa. Even the children are taught to believe in that manner, with the result that the Indian is being dragged down to the position of a raw Kaffir.

Mahatma Gandhi
Children, Believe, Savages
Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.25, Tara Publishing

Is not education the art of drawing out full manhood of the children under training?

Mahatma Gandhi
Education, Art, Children
Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

Men flocked to see it and ascended it as it was a novelty and of unique dimensions. It was the toy of the exhibition. So long as we are children we are attracted by toys, and the tower was a good demonstration of the fact that we are all children attracted by trinkets. That may be claimed to be the purpose served by the Eiffel Tower.

Mahatma Gandhi
Children, Unique, Men
Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.11, A&C Black

If we are to create peace in our world, we must begin with our children.

Mahatma Gandhi
Children, Our World, Peaceful

God of Truth and Justice can never create distinctions of high and low among His own children.

Mahatma Gandhi
God, Children, Justice
Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “None High: None Low”

Our children should not be so taught as to despise labour.

Mahatma Gandhi
Children, Taught, Should
Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.175, Rajpal & Sons

Seeing God face to face is to feel that He is enthroned in our hearts even as a child feels a mother's affection without needing any demonstration.

Mahatma Gandhi
God, Mother, Children
Mahatma Gandhi (2011). “The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi”, p.65, North Atlantic Books

India must protect her primary industries even as a mother protects her children against the whole world without being hostile to it.

Mahatma Gandhi
Mother, Children, India
Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “Gandhis India: Unity in Diversity”

Experience gained in two schools under my control has taught me that punishment does not purify, if anything, it hardens children.

Mahatma Gandhi
Education, Children, School
Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

Children inherit the qualities of the parents, no less than their physical features. Environment does play an important part, but the original capital on which a child starts in life is inherited from its ancestors. 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.

Mahatma Gandhi
Children, Play, Evil
Mahatma Gandhi (1948). “Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth”, p.276, Courier Corporation

Khaddar is an activity that can absorb all the time of all available men and women and grown-up children, if they have faith.

Mahatma Gandhi
Faith, Children, Men
Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

By education, I mean an all-round drawing of the best in child and man in body, mind and spirit.

Mahatma Gandhi
Children, Educational, Mean
Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.146, A&C Black