Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

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

~ 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

I call him religious who understands the suffering of others.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

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

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Do not worry in the least about yourself, leave all worry to God,' - this appears to be the commandment in all religions. This need not frighten anyone. He who devotes himself to service with a clear conscience, will day by day grasp the necessity for it in greater measure, and will continually grow richer in faith. The path of service can hardly be trodden by one who is not prepared to renounce self-interest, and to recognize the conditions of his birth. Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and will make not only for our own happiness but that of the world at large.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

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

~ Mahatma Gandhi

If I were a dictator, religion and state would be separate. I swear by my religion. I will die for it. But it is my personal affair. The state has nothing to do with it. The state would look after your secular welfare, health, communications, foreign relations, currency and so on, but not your or my religion. That is everybody's personal concern!

~ Mahatma Gandhi

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

~ Mahatma Gandhi

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

~ Mahatma Gandhi

A man, whilst he is dreaming, believes in his dream; he is undeceived only when he is awakened from his slumber.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

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

~ 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 in the holy name of liberty or democracy?

~ 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

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

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.

~ 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 w

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Of all the evils for which man has made himself responsible, none is so degrading, so shocking or so brutal as his abuse of the better half of humanity; the female sex.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

You Christians look after a document containing enough dynamite to blow all civilisation to pieces, turn the world upside down and bring peace to a battle-torn planet. But you treat it as though it is nothing more than a piece of literature.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they seem invincible. But in the end, they always fall. Always.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

If we are to make progress, we must not repeat history but make new history. We must add to inheritance left by our ancestors.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

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

~ Mahatma Gandhi

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

~ Mahatma Gandhi

The only difference between man and man all the world over is one of degree, and not of kind, even as there is between trees of the same species.Where in is the cause for anger, envy or discrimination?

~ Mahatma Gandhi

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

~ Mahatma Gandhi

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

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Peace between countries must rest on the solid foundation of love between individuals.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Live simply so others may simply live

~ Mahatma Gandhi

most Americans think of Rosa Parks as a demur, pleasant-enough seamstress who backed into history by being too tired to get out of her seat on a bus one day, in reality she had been trained in nonviolence spirit and tactics at a famous institution, Highlander Folk School. It seems to be a difficult concept for most of us that peace is a skill that can be learned. We know war can be learned, but we seem to think that one becomes a peacemaker by a mere change of heart. (23)

~ Mahatma Gandhi

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

~ Mahatma Gandhi

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

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

~ Mahatma Gandhi

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

~ Mahatma Gandhi

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

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, 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

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

~ 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