Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need but not for every man's greed.
In plain words
There is plenty for everyone's needs, never enough for everyone's greed.
Where these words come from
- 50% sureLots of sources credit Mahatma Gandhi with this, and they agree with each other. The book or the speech it first came from hasn't turned up yet.
- Quoted in Pyarelal Nayyar, Mahatma Gandhi: The Last Phase, Vol. 10 (1958), p. 552 — a posthumous secretary's biography, not a dated primary Gandhi text.
