11 Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi about Children



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

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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