Mahatma Gandhi

Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.

— Mahatma Gandhi

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I think it is the height of ignorance to believe that the sexual act is an independent function necessary like sleeping or eating. Seeing, therefore, that I did not desire more children, I began to strive after self-control. There was endless difficulty in the task.

— Mahatma Gandhi

That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.

— Mahatma Gandhi

But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.

— Mahatma Gandhi

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I am in the world feeling my way to light 'amid the encircling gloom.'

— Mahatma Gandhi

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I did once seriously think of embracing the Christian faith. The gentle figure of Christ, so full of forgiveness that he taught his followers not to retaliate when abused or struck, but to turn the other cheek - I thought it was a beautiful example of the perfect man.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.

— Mahatma Gandhi

God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I am a humble but very earnest seeker after truth.

— Mahatma Gandhi

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.

— Mahatma Gandhi

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

— Mahatma Gandhi

He is lost who is possessed by carnal desire.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.

— Mahatma Gandhi

God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.

— Mahatma Gandhi

A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

— Mahatma Gandhi

God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Sense perceptions can be and often are false and deceptive, however real they may appear to us. Where there is realization outside the senses, it is infallible. It is proved not by extraneous evidence but in the transformed conduct and character of those who have felt the real presence of God within.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.

— Mahatma Gandhi

A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.

— Mahatma Gandhi

We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.

— Mahatma Gandhi

We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?

— Mahatma Gandhi

There's no God higher than truth.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

— Mahatma Gandhi

God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.

— Mahatma Gandhi

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does the truth become error because nobody will see it.

— Mahatma Gandhi

We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.

— Mahatma Gandhi

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

— Mahatma Gandhi

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

— Mahatma Gandhi

God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings.

— Mahatma Gandhi

To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.

— Mahatma Gandhi

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.

— Mahatma Gandhi

My aim is not to be consistent with my previous statements on a given question, but to be consistent with truth as it may present itself to me at a given moment. The result has been that I have grown from truth to truth.

— Mahatma Gandhi

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.

— Mahatma Gandhi

One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.

— Mahatma Gandhi

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.

— Mahatma Gandhi

It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?

— Mahatma Gandhi

Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

— Mahatma Gandhi

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

— Mahatma Gandhi

God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I did once seriously think of embracing the Christian faith. The gentle figure of Christ, so full of forgiveness that he taught his followers not to retaliate when abused or struck, but to turn the other cheek - I thought it was a beautiful example of the perfect man.

— Mahatma Gandhi

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Be the change that you wish to see in the world.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

— Mahatma Gandhi

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

— Mahatma Gandhi

My life is my message.

— Mahatma Gandhi

A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

— Mahatma Gandhi

But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Non-violence is the article of faith.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.

— Mahatma Gandhi

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

— Mahatma Gandhi

When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.

— Mahatma Gandhi

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

— Mahatma Gandhi

jika sebuah mata harus dibalas dengan sebuah mata, hanya akan membuat seluruh dunia ini buta

— Mahatma Gandhi

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?

— Mahatma Gandhi

mereka tidak dapat mengambil harga diri kita kalau kita tidak memberikannya kepada mereka

— Mahatma Gandhi

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

— Mahatma Gandhi

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

— Mahatma Gandhi

There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.

— Mahatma Gandhi

A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.

— Mahatma Gandhi

A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

— Mahatma Gandhi

If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

— Mahatma Gandhi

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Action expresses priorities.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French.

— Mahatma Gandhi

All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within me. And even though I have to face the prospect of being a minority of one, I humbly believe I have the courage to be in such a hopeless minority.

— Mahatma Gandhi

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Ours is one continual struggle against a degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the Europeans, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir whose occupation is hunting, and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with and, then, pass his life in indolence and nakedness.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

— Mahatma Gandhi

A man is but the product of his thoughts, what he thinks he becomes.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Why, of all places in Johannesburg, the Indian location should be chosen for dumping down all kaffirs of the town, passes my comprehension. Of course, under my suggestion, the Town Council must withdraw the Kaffirs from the Location. About this mixing of the Kaffirs with the Indians I must confess I feel most strongly. I think it is very unfair to the Indian population, and it is an undue tax on even the proverbial patience of my countrymen.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.

— Mahatma Gandhi

In this instance of the fire-arms, the Asiatic has been most improperly bracketed with the native. The British Indian does not need any such restrictions as are imposed by the Bill on the natives regarding the carrying of fire-arms. The prominent race can remain so by preventing the native from arming himself. Is there a slightest vestige of justification for so preventing the British Indian?

— Mahatma Gandhi

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians - you are not like him.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Kaffirs are as a rule uncivilised—the convicts even more so. They are troublesome, very dirty and live almost like animals.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Leo Tolstoy's life has been devoted to replacing the method of violence for removing tyranny or securing reform by the method of non\xadresistance to evil. He would meet hatred expressed in violence by love expressed in self\xadsuffering. He admits of no exception to whittle down this great and divine law of love. He applies it to all the problems that trouble mankind.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Self-respect knows no considerations.

— Mahatma Gandhi

We are our own slaves, not of the British. This should be engraved on our minds. The whites cannot remain if we do not want them. If the idea is to drive them out with firearms, let every Indian consider what precious little profit Europe has found in these.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.

— Mahatma Gandhi

In reality there are as many religions as there are individuals.... Religions are different roads converging to the same point. What does it matter that we take different roads, so long as we reach the same goal. Wherein is the cause for quarrelling?

— Mahatma Gandhi

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The English have taught us that we were not one nation before and that it will reaquire centuries before we become one nation. This is without foundation. We were one nation before they came to India. One thought inspired us. Our mode of life was the same. It was because we were one nation that they were able to establish one kingdom. Subsequently they divided us.

— Mahatma Gandhi

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

— Mahatma Gandhi

One of the objects of a newspaper is to understand popular feeling and to give expression to it; another is to arouse among the people certain desirable sentiments; and the third is fearlessly to expose popular defects.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

— Mahatma Gandhi

[I]t is not true that we shall necessarily progress if our political conditions undergo a change, irrespectively of the manner in which it is brought about. If the means employed are impure, the change will not be in the direction of progress but very likely in the opposite.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Where there is love there is life.

— Mahatma Gandhi

In matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place.

— Mahatma Gandhi

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

— Mahatma Gandhi

For me the only training in Swaraj we need is the ability to defend ourselves against the whole world and to live our natural life in perfect freedom, even though it may be full of defects. Good government is no substitute for self-government.

— Mahatma Gandhi

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I have learnt through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmuted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmuted into a power which can move the world.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I came in contact with every known Indian anarchist in London. Their bravery impressed me, but I felt that their zeal was misguided. I felt that violence was no remedy for India's ills, and that her civilisation required the use of a different and higher weapon for self-protection.

— Mahatma Gandhi

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

— Mahatma Gandhi

If India adopted the doctrine of love as an active part of her religion and introduced it in her politics. Swaraj would descend upon India from heaven. But I am painfully aware that that event is far off as yet.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I have even seen the writings suggesting that I am playing a deep game, that I am using the present turmoil to foist my fads on India, and am making religious experiments at India's expense. I can only answer that Satyagraha is made of sterner stuff. There is nothing reserved and nothing secret in it.

— Mahatma Gandhi

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The Jews cannot receive sovereign rights in a place which has been held for centuries by Muslim powers by right of religious conquest. The Muslim soldiers did not shed their blood in the late War for the purpose of surrendering Palestine out of Muslim control.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel arrests the progress of the fell disease.

— Mahatma Gandhi

There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.

— Mahatma Gandhi

There is no such thing as slow freedom. Freedom is like a birth. Till we are fully free we are slaves.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.

— Mahatma Gandhi

There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supersedes all other courts.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

— Mahatma Gandhi

A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

— Mahatma Gandhi

When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Any action that is dictated by fear or by coercion of any kind ceases to be moral.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.

— Mahatma Gandhi

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

— Mahatma Gandhi

No action which is not voluntary can be called moral.

— Mahatma Gandhi

A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Satan's successes are the greatest when he appears with the name of God on his lips.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the "still small voice" within me. And even though I have to face the prospect of being a minority of one, I humbly believe I have the courage to be in such a hopeless minority.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Under democracy individual liberty of opinion and action is jealously guarded.

— Mahatma Gandhi

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

— Mahatma Gandhi

If one has no affection for a person or a system, one should feel free to give the fullest expression to his disaffection so long as he does not contemplate, promote, or incite violence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

— Mahatma Gandhi

It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Always believe in your dreams, because if you don't, you'll still have hope.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Hinduism is a relentless pursuit after truth and if today it has become moribund, inactive, irresponsive to growth, it is because we are fatigued. As soon as the fatigue is over, Hinduism will burst forth upon the world with a brilliance perhaps never known before.

— Mahatma Gandhi

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Some of my corresponents seem to think that I can work wonders. Let me say as a devotee of truth that I have no such gift. All the power I may have comes from God. But He does not work directly. He works through His numberless agencies. In this case it is the Congress.

— Mahatma Gandhi

What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I do not believe as the friend seems to do that an individual may gain spiritually and those who surround him suffer. I believe in advaita [nonduality], I believe in the essential unity of man and for that matter of all that lives. Therefore I believe that if one man gains spiritually, the whole world gains with him and if one man falls, the whole world falls to that extent.

— Mahatma Gandhi

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

— Mahatma Gandhi

[R]eal Swaraj will come, not by the acquisition of authority by a few, but by the acquisition of the capacity by all to resist authority when it is abused. In other words, Swaraj is to be attained by educating the masses to a sense of their capacity to regulate and control authority.

— Mahatma Gandhi

We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.

— Mahatma Gandhi

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good. I swear by non-violence because I know that it alone conduces to the highest good of mankind, not merely in the next world, but in this also. I object to violence because, when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary, the evil it does is permanent.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Self-government means continuous effort to be independent of government control, whether it is foreign government or whether it is national. Swaraj government will be a sorry affair if people look up for the regulation of every detail of life.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.

— Mahatma Gandhi

What the divine author of the Mahabharata said of his great creation is equally true of Hinduism. Whatever of substance is contained in any other religion is always to be found in Hinduism, and what is not contained in it is insubstantial or unnecessary.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Seven social sins: politics without principles, wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, and worship without sacrifice.

— Mahatma Gandhi

My life is my message.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Hinduism is like the Ganga,, pure and unsullied at its source but taking in its course the impurities in the way. Even like the Ganga it is beneficent in its total effect. It takes a provincial form in every provinvce, but the inner substance is retained everywhere.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Our sages have taught us to learn one thing; `As in the Self, so in the Universe.' It is not possible to scan the universe as it is to scan the self. Know the self and you know the universe.

— Mahatma Gandhi

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Now when we talk of brotherhood of men, we stop there and feel that all other life is there for man to exploit for his own purposes. But Hinduism excludes all exploitation.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.

— Mahatma Gandhi

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self sustained.

— Mahatma Gandhi

My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I’m a lover of my own liberty, and so I would do nothing to restrict yours. I simply want to please my own conscience, which is God.

— Mahatma Gandhi

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

— Mahatma Gandhi

For one man cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.

— Mahatma Gandhi

God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the West. The economic imperialism of a single tiny island kingdom is today keeping the world in chains. If an entire nation of 300 million took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare.

— Mahatma Gandhi

No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.

— Mahatma Gandhi

My ambition is much higher than independence. Through the deliverance of India, I seek to deliver the so-called weaker races of the Earth from the crushing heels of Western exploitation in which England is the greatest partner.

— Mahatma Gandhi

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I came to the conclusion long ago … that all religions were true and also that all had some error in them, and whilst I hold by my own, I should hold others as dear as Hinduism. So we can only pray, if we are Hindus, not that a Christian should become a Hindu … But our innermost prayer should be a Hindu should be a better Hindu, a Muslim a better Muslim, a Christian a better Christian.

— Mahatma Gandhi

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

— Mahatma Gandhi

It is not possible to make a person or society non-violent by compulsion.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I have been known as a crank, faddist, madman. Evidently the reputation is well deserved. For wherever I go, I draw to myself cranks, faddists, and madmen.

— Mahatma Gandhi

There is force in the universe, which, if we permit it, will flow through us and produce miraculous results.

— Mahatma Gandhi

It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?

— Mahatma Gandhi

I am uncompromising in the matter of woman's rights. In my opinion she should labour under no legal disability not suffered by man, I should treat the daughters and sons on a footing of perfect equality.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

I invite even the school of violence to give this peaceful non-co-operation a trial. It will not fail through its inherent weakness. It may fail because of poverty of response. Then will be one time for real danger. The high-souled men, who are unable to suffer national humiliation any longer, will want to vent their wrath. They will take to violence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.

— Mahatma Gandhi

It is not my purpose to attempt a real autobiography. I simply want to tell the story of my experiments with truth...as my life consists of nothing but those experiments.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

— Mahatma Gandhi

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I am a Hindu by birth. And yet I do not know much of Hinduism, and I know less of other religions. In fact I do not know where I am, and what is and what should be my belief. I intend to make a careful study of my own religion and, as far as I can, of other religions as well.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Each one prays to God according to his own light.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest. If we want the Arms Act to be repealed, if we want to learn the use of arms, here is a golden opportunity. If the middle classes render voluntary help to Government in the hour of its trial, distrust will disappear, and the ban on possessing arms will be withdrawn.

— Mahatma Gandhi

A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Jealousy does not wait for reasons.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.

— Mahatma Gandhi

It is the duty of every thoughtful Indian not to marry. In case he is helpless in regard to marriage, he should abstain from sexual intercourse with his wife.

— Mahatma Gandhi

It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Nothing is impossible for pure love.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I saw that bad handwriting should be regarded as a sign of an imperfect education.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.

— Mahatma Gandhi

That is why a thinker like Thoreau said that ‘that government is the best which governs the least.’ This means that when people come into possession of political power, the interference with the freedom of people is reduced to a minimum. In other words, a nation that runs its affairs smoothly and effectively without much State interference is truly democratic. Where such a condition is absent, the form of government is democratic in name.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Every Hindu boy and girl should possess sound Sanskrit learning.

— Mahatma Gandhi

It is the duty of every thoughtful Indian not to marry. In case he is helpless in regard to marriage, he should abstain from sexual intercourse with his wife.

— Mahatma Gandhi

It is now my opinion that in all Indian curricula of higher education there should be a place for Hindi, Sanskrit, Persian, Arabic and English, besides of course the vernacular.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Today I know that physical training should have as much place in the curriculum as mental training.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I wear the national dress because it is the most natural and the most becoming for an Indian.

— Mahatma Gandhi

A man of truth must also be a man of care.

— Mahatma Gandhi

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I saw that the writers on vegetarianism had examined the question very minutely, attacking it in its religious, scientific, practical and medical aspects. Ethically they had arrived at the conclusion that man's supremacy over the lower animals meant not that the former should prey upon the latter, but that the higher should protect the lower, and that there should be mutual aid between the two as between man and man.

— Mahatma Gandhi

A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.

— Mahatma Gandhi

One golden rule is to accept the interpretation honestly put on the pledge by the party administering it.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

— Mahatma Gandhi

A convert's enthusiasm for his new religion is greater than that of a person who is born in it.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Supplication, worship, prayer are no superstition; they are acts more real than the acts of eating, drinking, sitting or walking. It is no exaggeration to say that they alone are real, all else is unreal.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.

— Mahatma Gandhi

My joy was boundless. I had learnt the true practice of law. I had learnt to find out the better side of human nature and to enter men’s hearts. I realized the true function of a lawyer was to unite parties riven asunder. The lesson was so indelibly burnt into me that a large part of my time during the twenty years of my practice as a lawyer was occupied in bringing about private compromises of hundreds of cases. I lost nothing thereby - not even money, certainly not my soul.

— Mahatma Gandhi

If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.

— Mahatma Gandhi

But all my life though, the very insistence on truth has taught me to appreciate the beauty of compromise. I saw in later life that this spirit was an essential part of Satyagraha. It has often meant endangering my life and incurring the displeasure of friends. But truth is hard as adamant and tender as a blossom.

— Mahatma Gandhi

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I had learnt at the onset not to carry on public work with borrowed money.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?

— Mahatma Gandhi

We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.

— Mahatma Gandhi

To my mind the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. I should be unwilling to take the life of a lamb for the sake of the human body. I hold that, the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The good man is the friend of all living things.

— Mahatma Gandhi

My uniform experience has convinced me that there is no other God than Truth.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Where there is love there is life.

— Mahatma Gandhi

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

— Mahatma Gandhi

By its very nature, non-violence cannot ‘seize’ power, nor can that be its goal. But non-violence can do more; it can effectively control and guide power without capturing the machinery of government. That is its beauty.

— Mahatma Gandhi

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Peace is its own reward.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

— Mahatma Gandhi

We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I say without fear of my figures being successfully challenged that India today is more illiterate than it was before a fifty or hundred years ago, and so is Burma, because the British administrators when they came to India, instead of taking hold of things as they were, began to root them out. They scratched the soil and began to look at the root and left the root like that and the beautiful tree perished.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.

— Mahatma Gandhi

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.

— Mahatma Gandhi

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Vegetarians should have that moral basis—that a man was not born a carnivorous animal, but born to live on the fruits and herbs that the earth grows.

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage—an inexorable demand—that we should cease to kill our fellow-creatures for satisfaction of our bodily wants.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I regard myself as a soldier, though a soldier of peace.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I do not believe in the doctrine of the greatest number. It means in its nakedness that in order to achieve the supposed good of 51 per cent the interests of 49 per cent may be, or rather, should be sacrificed. It is a heartless doctrine and has done harm to humanity.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.

— Mahatma Gandhi

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I look upon an increase in the power of the State with the greatest fear because, although while apparently doing good by minimizing exploitation, it does the greatest harm to mankind by destroying individuality, which lies at the root of the progress. We know of so many cases where men have adopted trusteeship, but none where the State has really lived for the poor.

— Mahatma Gandhi

There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything and every being that exists or lives. It is no blind law; for no blind law can govern the conduct of living beings.

— Mahatma Gandhi

It is my firm conviction that if the State suppressed capitalism by violence, it will be caught in the coils of violence itself, and fail to develop non-violence at any time. The state represents violence in a concentrated and organized form. The Individual has a soul, but as the state is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Man's excellence lies in his readiness to let others live and lay down his own life. As he progresses, his food also changes for the better. He has the capacity to grow still further. There have been many more discoveries after Darwin's. The book which you have been reading seems to be an old one. Whether it is old or new, the "Principle of the greatest good of the greatest number," or "survival of the fittest" is false.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.

— Mahatma Gandhi

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I worship God as Truth only. I have not yet found Him, but I am seeking after Him.

— Mahatma Gandhi

If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Hinduism insists on the brotherhood of not only all mankind but of all that lives.

— Mahatma Gandhi

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I am a lover of my own liberty and so I would do nothing to resist yours.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it.

— Mahatma Gandhi

It is impossible for me to reconcile myself to the idea of conversion after the style that goes on in India and elsewhere today. It is an error which is perhaps the greatest impediment to the world’s progress toward peace … Why should a Christian want to convert a Hindu to Christianity? Why should he not be satisfied if the Hindu is a good or godly man?Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi

— Mahatma Gandhi

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

— Mahatma Gandhi

If there ever could be a justifiable war in the name of and for humanity, a war against Germany, to prevent the wanton persecution of a whole race, would be completely justified. But I do not believe in any war. A discussion of the pros and cons of such a war is therefore outside my horizon or province.

— Mahatma Gandhi

If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The cry for the national home for the Jews does not make much appeal to me. The sanction for it is sought in the Bible and the tenacity with which the Jews have hankered after return to Palestine. Why should they not, like other peoples of the earth, make that country their home where they are born and where they earn their livelihood?

— Mahatma Gandhi

Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French. It is wrong and in-human to impose the Jews on the Arabs.

— Mahatma Gandhi

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.

— Mahatma Gandhi

It is quite clear that you are today the one person in the world who can prevent a war which may reduce humanity to the savage state. Must you pay that price for an object however worthy it may appear to you to be? Will you listen to the appeal of one who has deliberately shunned the method of war not without considerable success?

— Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.

— Mahatma Gandhi

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

— Mahatma Gandhi

It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one's belly, in order to be able to save one's head.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I do not share the socialist belief that centralization of the necessaries of life will conduce to the common welfare, when the centralized industries are planned and owned by the State. The socialistic concept of the West was born in an environment reeking with violence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I have always held that social justice, even to the least the lowliest, is impossible of attainment by force.

— Mahatma Gandhi

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I do not want to see the allies defeated. But I do not consider Hitler to be as bad as he is depicted. He is showing an ability that is amazing and seems to be gaining his victories without much bloodshed. Englishmen are showing the strength that Empire builders must have. I expect them to rise much higher than they seem to be doing.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.

— Mahatma Gandhi

A society organized and run on the basis of complete nonviolence would be the purest anarchy... That State is perfect and non-violent where the people are governed the least.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

— Mahatma Gandhi

When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The ideally non-violent state will be an ordered anarchy. That State is the best governed which is governed the least.

— Mahatma Gandhi

A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.

— Mahatma Gandhi

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy?

— Mahatma Gandhi

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I suggest that, if India is to evolve along nonviolent lines, it will have to decentralize many things. Centralization cannot be sustained and defended without adequate force . . .Centralization as a system is inconsistent with non-violent structure of society.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

— Mahatma Gandhi

No society can possibly be built upon a denial of individual freedom.It is contrary to the very nature of man. Just as a man will not grow horns or a tail, so will he not exist as man if he has no mind of his own. In reality even those who do not believe in the liberty of the individual believe in their own.

— Mahatma Gandhi

If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.

— Mahatma Gandhi

My conception of freedom is no narrow conception. It is co-extensive with the freedom of man in all his majesty.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. He frees himself and shows the way to others. Freedom and slavery are mental states. Therefore, the first thing to say to yourself: 'I shall no longer accept the role of a slave. I shall not obey orders as such but shall disobey them when they are in conflict with my conscience.

— Mahatma Gandhi

True beauty lies in purity of the heart.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I draw no distinction between error and sin. If a man commits a bona fide mistake and confesses it with a contrite heart before his Maker, the merciful Maker sterilizes it of all harm.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, only in so far as he is allowed by the Great Power.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The only thing lawful is non-violence. Violence can never be lawful in the sense meant here, i.e., not according to man-made laws, but according to the laws made by Nature for man.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Truth resides in every human heart,

— Mahatma Gandhi

Morality is contraband in war.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Hindus should never be angry against the Muslims even if the latter might make up their minds to undo even their existence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Impure means result in an impure end… One cannot reach truth by untruthfulness. Truthful conduct alone can reach Truth.

— Mahatma Gandhi

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

— Mahatma Gandhi

[Government] control gives rise to fraud, suppression of truth, intensification of the black market and artificial scarcity. Above all, it unmans the people and deprives them of initiative, it undoes the teaching of self-help…It makes them spoon-fed.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I took the vow of celibacy in 1906. I had not shared my thoughts with my wife until then, but only consulted her at the time of making the vow. She had no objection.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust. The world crushes the dust under its feet, but the seeker after truth should so humble himself that even the dust could crush him. Only then, and not till then, will he have a glimpse of truth.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

— Mahatma Gandhi

In the dictionary of Satyagraha, there is no enemy.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Non-violence is the article of faith.

— Mahatma Gandhi

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our breasts, than to put on the cloak of non-violence to cover impotence. Violence is any day preferable to impotence. There is hope for a violent man to become non-violent. There is no such hope for the impotent.

— Mahatma Gandhi

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Where love is, there God is also.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need but not for every man's greed.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Whatever the ultimate fate of my country, my love for you remains, and will remain, undiminished. My non-violence demands universal love, and you are not a small part of it. It is that love which has prompted my appeal to you.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.

— Mahatma Gandhi

May God give power to every word of mine. In his name I began to write this, and in His name I close it. May your statesman have the wisdom and courage to respond to my appeal. I am telling His Excellency the Viceroy that my services are at the disposal of His Majesty’s Government, should they consider them of any practical use in advancing the object of my appeal.

— Mahatma Gandhi

My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Nor, do I believe in inequalities between human beings. We are all absolutely equal. But equality is of the souls and not the bodies. Hence, it is a mental state. We need to think of, and to assert, equality because we see great inequality in the physical world. We have to realize equality in the midst of this apparent external inequality. Assumption of superiority by any person over any other is a sin against God and man. Thus caste, in so far as it connotes distinctions in status, is an evil.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time. I must continue to bear testimony to truth even if I am forsaken by all. Mine may today be a voice in the wilderness, but it will be heard when all other voices are silenced, if it is the voice of Truth.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Each one prays to God according to his own light.

— Mahatma Gandhi

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

— Mahatma Gandhi

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

— Mahatma Gandhi

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. Now the law of nonviolence says that violence should be resisted not by counter-violence but by nonviolence. This I do by breaking the law and by peacefully submitting to arrest and imprisonment.

— Mahatma Gandhi

To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior. Has she not greater intuition, is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater powers of endurance, has she not greater courage? Without her, man could not be. If nonviolence is the law of our being, the future is with woman. Who can make a more effective appeal to the heart than woman?"

— Mahatma Gandhi

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.

— Mahatma Gandhi

For me the different religions are beautiful flowers from the same garden, or they are branches of the same majestic tree. Therefore they are equally true, though being received and interpreted through human instruments equally imperfect.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough in me to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

— Mahatma Gandhi

My life is my message.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.

— Mahatma Gandhi

You assist an unjust administration most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil administration never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good person will resist an evil system with his whole soul. Disobedience of the laws of an evil state is therefore a duty.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.

— Mahatma Gandhi

All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family, and each one of us is responsible for the misdeeds of all the others. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Remember that there is always a limit to self-indulgence but none to self-restraint, and let us daily progress in that direction.

— Mahatma Gandhi

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

— Mahatma Gandhi

God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

— Mahatma Gandhi

If Brahmanism does not revive, Hinduism must perish. [...] I will not like to live in an India which has ceased to be Hindu.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I know of no one who has done more for humanity than Jesus. In fact, there is nothing wrong with Christianity … The trouble is with you Christians. You do not begin to live up to your own teachings.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I did once seriously think of embracing the Christian faith. The gentle figure of Christ, so full of forgiveness that he taught his followers not to retaliate when abused or struck, but to turn the other cheek - I thought it was a beautiful example of the perfect man.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.

— Mahatma Gandhi

All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.

— Mahatma Gandhi

If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.

— Mahatma Gandhi

For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.

— Mahatma Gandhi