Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

The path of bhakti, karma and love as expounded in the Gita leaves no room for the despising of man by man.

The greater our innocence, the greater our strength and the swifter our victory

To a true artist only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior, shines with the truth within the soul.

The light of the world will illuminate within you when you fast and purify yourself.

It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of God, the Compassionate, if we in turn will not practice elementary compassion toward our fellow creatures.

To a hungry man, a piece of bread is the face of God.

Hindu Dharma is like a boundless ocean teeming with priceless gems. The deeper you dive the more treasures you find.

No man loses his freedom except through his own weakness.

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

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.

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

Stoning prophets and erecting churches to their memory afterwards has been the way of the world through the ages. Today we worship Christ, but the Christ in the flesh we crucified.

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

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

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.

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

Even a single lamp dispels the deepest darkness.

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.

Peace is its own reward.

Make injustice visible.

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

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.

If it weren't for Christians, I'd be a Christian.

Nonviolence becomes meaningless if violence is permitted for self-defence.

Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic

Change yourself - you are in control.

The Divine Music is incessantly ringing within all of us, but the loud senses drown the delicate Music, which is unlike and infinitely superior to anything we can perceive with our senses.

Cowards can never be moral.

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

Just as the body cannot exist without blood, so the soul needs the matchless and pure strength of faith.

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

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

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

Yes I am, I am also a Muslim, a Christian, a Buddhist, and a Jew.

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

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

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

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

I hold it a blasphemy to say that the Creator resides in a temple from which a particular class of His devotees sharing faith in it are excluded.

Jealousy does not wait for reasons.

If there is violence, it will certainly be crushed because violence can only end in a disgraceful rout.

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

I believe that there is no prayer without fasting, and there is no real fast without prayer.

High thinking is inconsistent with a complicated material life based on high speed and imposed on us by mammon worship.

The satyagrahi should not have any hatred in his heart against the opponent.

We must be the world we want to create.

A pacifism which can see the cruelties only of occasional military warfare and is blind to the continuous cruelties of our social system is worthless.

The newspaperman has become a walking plague. He spreads the contagion of lies and calumnies.

If love wasn't the law of life, life would not have persisted in the midst of death.

Woman is more fitted than man to make explorations and take bolder action in ahimsa.