A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
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.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
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.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
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.
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A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
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.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
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.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
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.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
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.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
Be the change that you want to see in the world.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
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.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
Each one prays to God according to his own light.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living ?
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Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
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.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
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I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.
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I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force.
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If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.
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If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
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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.
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Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
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.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.
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It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
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.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
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.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
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.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
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.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
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.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
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.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
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.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
Peace is its own reward.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
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.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
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.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
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.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
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.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
The good man is the friend of all living things.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
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.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
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.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
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.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
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.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
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.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
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.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
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?
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
What is true of the individual will be to-morrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
Where love is, there God is also.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas Gandhi Quote
