Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

I hold that it is the duty of every cultured man or woman to read sympathetically the scriptures of ...

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

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

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

Stoning prophets and erecting churches to their memory afterwards has been the way of the world thro...

To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.

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

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

Solitude is a catalyst for innovation

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

If a single man achieves the highest kind of love, it will be sufficient to neutralize the hate of m...

Violence begins with the fork.

Homeopathy cures a larger percentage of cases than any other form of treatment and is beyond doubt s...

All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul...

If I were a dictator, religion and state would be separate. I swear by my religion. I will die for i...

Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.

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

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Of all the evils for which man has made himself responsible, none is so degrading, so shocking or so...

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

God has no religion.

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

The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane.

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There...

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

Intellect takes us along in the battle of life to a certain limit, but at the crucial moment it fail...

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.

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

Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love....

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

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

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

An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.

Monotony is the law of nature. Look at the monotonous manner in which the sun rises. The monotony of...

The future depends on what we do in the present.

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

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

There would be nothing to frighten you if you refused to be afraid.

To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant bru...

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

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirt...

True morality consists not in following the beaten track, but in finding the true path for ourselves...

Distinguish between real needs and artificial wants and control the latter.

Good travels at a snail's pace. Those who want to do good are not selfish, they are not in a hurry, ...

If we are to make progress, we must not repeat history but make new history. We must add to inherita...

Intolerance is a species of violence and therefore against our creed.

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

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

The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.

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

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

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

It is better to be violent if there is violence in our hearts than to put on the cloak of non-viol...

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

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

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

Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look upon the Act which deprived a wh...

(When asked what he thought of Western civilization): 'I think it would be a good idea.

The law of love could be best understood and learned through little children.

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

It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one's acts.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Faith is the function of the heart.

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

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

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

I have learnt through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat con...

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

Nothing is impossible for pure love.

Action expresses priorities.

Where there is love there is life.

There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.

Hate the sin, love the sinner.

Our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world as in being able to remake ourselve...

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

I become more than ever convinced that it was not the sword that won a place for Islam in those days...

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no result...

Peace is its own reward.

Truth resides in every human heart,and one has to search for it there,and to be guided by truth as o...

The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

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

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

The inner voice is something which cannot be described in words. But sometimes we have a positive fe...

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

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

most Americans think of Rosa Parks as a demur, pleasant-enough seamstress who backed into history by...

The future depends on what you do today.

They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.

I came to the conclusion long ago that all religions were true and that also that all had some error...

My life is my message.

Ask the poor. They'll tell you who the christians are.

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is be...

Truth should be the very breath of our life. When once this state in the pilgrim's progress is reach...

Love is the strongest force the world possesses and yet it is the humblest imaginable.

To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant bru...

I did once seriously think of embracing the Christian faith. The gentle figure of Christ, so full of...

Three-fourths of the miseries and misunderstandings in the world will disappear if we step into the ...

Even a single lamp dispels the deepest darkness.